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indefinable popularity that made him so much more than the greatest of subjects.

    NOTES
    1. W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That (1930), 47–8.
    2. Kendall, Warwick , 7.
    3. W. Shakespeare, Henry VI Part II , Act I sc. i; Part III , I.i, II.iii, III.vi.
    4. Vale’s Bk. 49.
    5. Kendall, Warwick , 8.
    6. L. Visser-Fuchs, ‘Edward IV’s Memoir on Paper to Charles, Duke of Burgundy: The so-called “Short Version of the Arrivall ” ’, NMS xxxvi (1992), 170; see also A. Gransden, Historical Writing in England c.1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century (1982), 485–7.
    7. Rous Roll , nos 56, 57.
    8. The Mirror for Magistrates , ed. L. B. Campbell (1938), 208, 211.
    9. ‘The Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire’, ed. J. G. Nichols (Camden Misc. i, 1847); Historie of The Arrivall of Edward IV , ed. J. Bruce (Camden Soc. i, 1838).
    10. John Major’s History of Greater Britain (Scottish Hist. Soc., 1892), 390–1; J. Major, Historia Maioris Britanniae (Lodoco Badia, 1521), f. cxlv.
    11. S. Daniel, The Ciuill Wares betweene ye howses of Lancaster and York (1609), 146; D. Hume, History of England (8 vols, Oxford, 1826), iii. 160.
    12. E.g. F. Biondi, A History of the Ciuill Warres of England (1641), esp. 39; W. Dugdale, Baronage of England (2 vols, 1675), i. 304; P. Rapin de Thoyras, History of England , ed. N. Tindall (2nd edn, 1732), i. 579; Bodl. MS Wood F24, p. 7.
    13. BL Add. MS 34352, p. 8 [Gainford’s Life ].
    14. T. Carte, General History of England (1750), ii. 741.
    15. Testamenta Eboracensia , ed. J. Raine (Surtees Soc. xxx, 1834), ii. 242n; Dugdale, Baronage , i. 305; Rapin, History , i. 579; Bodl. MS Wood F12, f. 136; Campbell, Mirror , 209.
    16. Daniel, Ciuill Warres , 185.
    17. Hall’s Chronicle , ed. H. Ellis (1809), 232, derived from P. Vergil, Historia Angliae 1555 (1972 edn), 503; Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History , ed. H. Ellis (Camden Soc. xxix, 1844), 95.
    18. Mirror , 211.
    19. T. Habington, A Survey of Worcestershire , ed. J. Amphlett (2 vols, Worcs. Hist. Soc. i, ii, 1895–9), ii. 111; see also his son William’s Historie of Edward the Fovrth King of England (1640), esp. 85.
    20. Rapin, History , i. 613.
    21. Hume, History , iii. 160–1.
    22. S. Turner, History of England during the Middle Ages (1823), iii. 290, 337.
    23. E. G. E. L. Bulwer-Lytton, The Last of the Barons (3 vols, London, 1843), esp. i. 8.
    24. W. Stubbs, Constitutional History of England in the Middle Ages (3 vols, Oxford, 1878), iii. 212.
    25. J. Gairdner, The Houses of Lancaster and York (1874), 186.
    26. Kendall, Warwick ; Louis XI (1971).

2: THE FORMATIVE YEARS
    2.1: PEDIGREE AND PATRIMONY
    Richard Neville, the future Warwick the Kingmaker, was born on St Cecilia’s day (Monday, 22 November) 1428.1 At birth he had nothing whatsoever to do with Warwick. That connection came later with his marriage. Until he became Warwick he will be referred to here as Richard, the baptismal name that he shares with his father. Richard was the eldest son and the third out of the eleven children of Sir Richard Neville and his wife Alice Montagu, who were to be recognized as Earl and Countess of Salisbury in Alice’s right on 7 May 1429.2 From the moment of his birth there was mapped out for him a political and military career as the head of one of the dozen leading English families. Yet only half a dozen facts are recorded about the first twenty years of his life. Very little, in particular, can be known about the upbringing that prepared him for his remarkable career, though we may presume it followed the conventional course sketched out for others of his class. Much more is known about the influences around him that constrained and shaped his subsequent career. It is with these, therefore, that we must commence.
    Richard’s mother was the only surviving daughter of Thomas Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, by his first wife Eleanor, one of the six sisters and ultimately four heiresses of Edmund (d. 1408), the last