item: #1 of 20 id: 15769 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: In the Wars of the Roses: A Story for the Young date: None words: 60126 flesch: 78 summary: Little Paul, who had grown up amongst them, ran from one to the other, telling them excitedly how he was going to see the prince that day, and eagerly accepting from the hands of his old nurse a beautiful bunch of red roses which she had gathered that morning, in the hope that her darling might have the chance to offer them to queen or prince. And as the party from Stukely Hall rode up, way being made by the crowd for persons of quality well known and beloved in those parts, little Paul vented his excitement in a new cry of his own; for, standing up in his stirrups and waving his cap in his hand, he cried in his clear boyish tones: Three cheers, good people, for the little prince! keywords: band; cause; child; country; day; days; edward; eyes; face; farmer; father; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; king; life; like; love; man; men; moment; mother; night; paul; peril; place; prince; royal; son; thought; time; way; words; young cache: 15769.txt plain text: 15769.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 31484 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 08 date: None words: 87769 flesch: 88 summary: Threat me with your bow, good Dick; threat me with it plain, he added. Drowning, in sooth; for why I did not pull you in along with me, the saints alone can tell! Nay, said Matcham, I would 'a' saved us both, good Dick, for I can swim. keywords: arms; arrow; bennet; black; daniel; day; dick; door; end; eyes; face; forest; foxham; good; half; hand; hath; head; heart; hope; hour; house; jack; joanna; knight; know; lad; lawless; life; look; lord; man; master; master dick; matcham; men; moment; nay; oliver; open; place; poor; richard; right; set; shelton; shoreby; sir; sir daniel; snow; thought; time; voice; way; wood; word cache: 31484.txt plain text: 31484.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 32675 author: Rogers, W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) title: The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West date: None words: 112644 flesch: 62 summary: The sequel cannot be better related than in the words of Cleaveland:-- With these forces the Earl of Pembroke resolved to hinder the rebels in their journey, and having notice that they took their way by _Northampton_, he led the whole body of his army against them, having given orders to Sir _Richard Herbert_ with two thousand soldiers, to wheel about and charge the enemy in the rear. Sir _ keywords: abbey; afterward; age; aisle; anne; antient; archbishop; arms; arundell; baron; battle; body; bonville; broke; brother; buckingham; castle; chapel; character; cheney; children; church; cicely; cornwall; court; cross; crown; daughter; day; days; death; devon; dorset; doubtless; duke; earl; edward; effigy; eldest; elizabeth; end; england; family; fate; father; feet; ferrers; following; george; gloucester; good; grey; gules; hands; hastings; head; heir; henry; high; home; house; husband; influence; issue; katharine; king; king edward; king henry; knight; lady; late; left; life; london; lord; lord bonville; lord cheney; lord hastings; lord willoughby; man; manor; margaret; marquis; marriage; mary; men; monument; mother; near; north; place; position; present; queen; reign; remains; richard; right; robert; rose; royal; salisbury; second; sir; sir edward; sir henry; sir humphrey; sir john; sir nicholas; sir richard; sir robert; sir thomas; sir william; sister; somerset; son; son sir; south; stafford; stone; time; tomb; tower; viii; way; west; widow; wife; willoughby; years; young cache: 32675.txt plain text: 32675.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 32954 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses date: None words: 81337 flesch: 88 summary: Threat me with your bow, good Dick; threat me with it plain, he added. Drowning, in sooth; for why I did not pull you in along with me, the saints alone can tell! Nay, said Matcham, I would 'a' saved us both, good Dick, for I can swim. keywords: arms; arrow; bennet; black; daniel; day; dick; door; eyes; face; forest; foxham; good; hand; hath; head; heart; house; jack; joanna; knight; know; lad; lawless; life; look; lord; man; master; master dick; matcham; men; moment; nay; oliver; open; place; poor; richard; right; set; shelton; shoreby; sir; sir daniel; snow; thought; time; way; wood; y'are cache: 32954.txt plain text: 32954.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 44304 author: Frederic, Harold title: The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars date: None words: 62226 flesch: 86 summary: It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. We never did git a fair show, like other men, he remarked. keywords: abbey; air; andreas; asa; away; big; blood; boy; close; day; deputy; dickon; door; eyes; face; father; fire; foldeen; git; glance; good; half; hand; hazzard; head; house; hugh; job; king; lad; lafe; left; life; look; man; marshal; men; mind; moment; morning; mose; new; open; place; right; rose; sir; teachout; thing; thought; time; voice; way; whipple; woods; work; years cache: 44304.txt plain text: 44304.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 46132 author: Edgar, John G. (John George) title: The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster date: None words: 100162 flesch: 63 summary: The English people had a peculiar aversion to favorites, and remembered that while weak sovereigns, like the third Henry and the second Edward, had been ruined by such creatures, great kings, like the first and third Edward, had done excellently well without them. About Christmas Henry awoke as from a confused dream; and, on St. John's Day, he sent his almoner with an offering to Canterbury, and his secretary on a similar errand to the shrine of St. Edward. keywords: anjou; army; battle; brother; burgundy; castle; clarence; court; crown; daughter; day; death; duke; earl; edward; elizabeth; england; english; ere; field; france; friends; gloucester; great; hand; having; head; heir; henry; high; house; john; king; king edward; lancaster; lancastrians; left; little; london; long; lord; louis; man; margaret; men; oxford; place; prince; queen; red; richard; richmond; rose; royal; sir; somerset; son; time; tower; victory; warwick; way; woodville; years; york; yorkist; young cache: 46132.txt plain text: 46132.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 57164 author: Oman, Charles title: Warwick, the Kingmaker date: None words: 70074 flesch: 69 summary: [Illustration: WARWICK From the Rous Roll] WARWICK THE KINGMAKER by CHARLES W. OMAN Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London 1916 CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE The Days of the Kingmaker 1 CHAPTER II The House of Neville 12 CHAPTER III Richard of Salisbury 19 CHAPTER IV The Kingmaker's Youth 29 CHAPTER V The Cause of York 38 CHAPTER VI The Beginning of the Civil War: St. Albans 47 CHAPTER VII Warwick Captain of Calais and Admiral 60 CHAPTER VIII Warwick in Exile 79 CHAPTER IX Victory and Disaster--Northampton and St. Albans 93 CHAPTER X Towton Field 107 CHAPTER XI The Triumph of King Edward 128 CHAPTER XII The Pacification of the North 137 CHAPTER XIII The Quarrel of Warwick and King Edward 159 CHAPTER XIV Playing with Treason 175 CHAPTER XV Warwick for King Henry 193 CHAPTER XVI The Return of King Edward 208 CHAPTER XVII Barnet 228 CHAPTER I THE DAYS OF THE KINGMAKER Of all the great men of action who since the Conquest have guided the course of English policy, it is probable that none is less known to the reader of history than Richard Neville Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. Finally, King Edward--who had remained behind till the last available moment, cheering the Londoners, bidding for the support of doubtful adherents, getting together money, and signing the manifold documents which had to be drawn up on his accession--started with his personal following, amid the cheers of the citizens and cries for vengeance on King Henry and his wife. keywords: albans; arms; army; battle; brother; calais; castle; cause; clarence; day; days; duke; earl; enemy; england; english; father; field; force; france; french; hand; house; john; king; king edward; king henry; lancastrian; left; line; london; long; lord; man; march; margaret; men; moment; montagu; neville; north; party; place; queen; ralph; richard; salisbury; sir; somerset; son; south; time; town; warwick; way; years; york; yorkist cache: 57164.txt plain text: 57164.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 7715 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 date: None words: 39941 flesch: 69 summary: Thy name, youth? Marmaduke Nevile, good my lord. While thus conversed the cavaliers, and their plumes waved, and their mantles glittered along the broken ground, Marmaduke Nevile's eye pursued the horsemen with all that bitter feeling of wounded pride and impotent resentment with which Youth regards the first insult it receives from Power. CHAPTER II. keywords: adam; alwyn; brother; child; court; day; earl; edward; eyes; face; fair; father; good; great; ground; hand; head; heart; house; king; life; like; london; lord; love; madge; man; marmaduke; master; men; montagu; nevile; new; nicholas; sibyll; sir; thee; thou; thy; time; warner; warwick; way; world; york; youth cache: 7715.txt plain text: 7715.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 7716 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 date: None words: 12085 flesch: 69 summary: But thou hast learned only half thy business, good Warwick; and it is well Margaret did not hear thee. The exterior of Warwick House was of a gray but dingy stone, and presented a half-fortified and formidable appearance. keywords: anne; court; earl; edward; england; father; hand; isabel; king; lady; london; lord; man; marmaduke; men; nevile; son; thee; thou; thy; warwick cache: 7716.txt plain text: 7716.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 7717 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 date: None words: 23261 flesch: 74 summary: Nay, Master Warner,--for here Adam, poor man, awed by Henry's mildness into shame at his discourteous vaunting, began to apologize,--nay, sir, nay-- thou art right to contemn our bloody and futile struggles for a crown of thorns; for-- 'Kingdoms are but cares, State is devoid of stay Riches are ready snares, And hasten to decay.' While Sibyll listened to such explanations as Madge could give her, the stranger, who had carefully closed the door of the student's chamber, after regarding Adam for a moment with silent but keen scrutiny, thus began,-- When last we met, Adam Warner, it was with satchells on our backs. keywords: adam; art; child; door; edward; eyes; face; father; gold; great; hand; hastings; henry; hilyard; king; lady; life; lord; man; master; men; model; prince; richard; sibyll; sir; thee; thou; thy; warner cache: 7717.txt plain text: 7717.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 7718 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 04 date: None words: 32622 flesch: 70 summary: but I am a friend to the king he has served, and the land of my birth to which he has given peace; and therefore, not till Warwick desert Edward, not till he wake the land again to broil and strife, will I mingle in the plots of those who seek his downfall. That contempt for commerce which characterizes a modern aristocracy was little felt by the nobles of that day, with the exception of such blunt patricians as Lord Warwick or Raoul de Fulke. keywords: alwyn; anthony; brother; burgundy; count; day; duchess; earl; edward; england; eye; fair; hand; hastings; hath; heart; house; king; lady; lord; lord warwick; love; man; margaret; marmaduke; master; men; montagu; nevile; queen; richard; rivers; roche; sir; thee; thou; thy; time; warwick cache: 7718.txt plain text: 7718.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 7719 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 05 date: None words: 9318 flesch: 76 summary: Hast thou, Lord Richard, no interest to serve in this mission save that of the public weal? Thou forgettest that the Lady Isabel is dearly loved by Clarence, and that I would fain see removed all barrier to his nuptial bliss. King Richard ordered the destrier to be slain forthwith; but the holy palmer who had exorcised it forbade the sacrifice. keywords: anne; clarence; earl; edward; father; gloucester; hand; heart; isabel; king; prince; richard; son; thee; thou; warwick cache: 7719.txt plain text: 7719.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 7720 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 06 date: None words: 14371 flesch: 73 summary: I knew not, replied Sibyll, bitterly, that Sibyll Warner was more below the state of Lord Hastings than Master Hastings was once below the state of Lady Katherine Nevile. And if to-morrow he offered me his hand, I would reject it, if I were not convinced that the heart-- Damsel, interrupted the Lady Bonville, in amazed contempt, the hand of Lord Hastings! keywords: adam; bonville; court; earl; edward; friar; hastings; heart; katherine; king; lady; lord; love; man; men; montagu; sibyll; thee; thou; thy; warwick; words cache: 7720.txt plain text: 7720.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 7721 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 07 date: None words: 22114 flesch: 76 summary: Not ill thought of, sir, said Sir Geoffrey Gates; and my advice is to proclaim Clarence king and Warwick lord protector. War is the chase of kings! keywords: archbishop; army; brother; clarence; earl; edward; england; hand; hastings; hath; head; heart; hilyard; isabel; john; king; lord; man; men; people; sir; sire; time; warwick; woodvilles cache: 7721.txt plain text: 7721.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 7722 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 08 date: None words: 19360 flesch: 76 summary: I am here in attendance on sweet Lady Anne, whom the king loves as a daughter, though too young for sire to so well-grown a donzell; and a word from her lip, if need be, will set all as smooth as this gorget of lawn! Thus assured, Alwyn gave the ring to his friend, and took his way at once to the ramparts. The archbishop had suffered the rumour of Gloucester's attachment to the Lady Anne to get abroad, and the young prince's return from the North was anxiously expected by the gossips of the day. keywords: alwyn; anne; chamber; court; earl; edward; face; father; hand; hastings; heart; king; lady; lord; love; man; marmaduke; master; sibyll; sir; thee; thou; voice; warwick cache: 7722.txt plain text: 7722.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 7723 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 date: None words: 34588 flesch: 74 summary: If Lord Warwick succeed, and King Edward lose his crown, ye can shape as ye best may your conduct to the time. Then were signed the articles of marriage between Prince Edward and the Lady Anne,--the latter to remain with Margaret, but the marriage not to be consummated till Lord Warwick had entered England and regained the realm, or most part, for King Henry,--a condition which pleased the earl, who desired to award his beloved daughter no less a dowry than a crown. keywords: adam; anne; boy; brother; clarence; daughter; day; earl; edward; face; father; hand; heart; house; isabel; king; lady; life; lord; love; man; margaret; men; montagu; mother; poor; prince; richard; right; sibyll; sir; son; thee; thou; thy; time; tymbesteres; warwick; young cache: 7723.txt plain text: 7723.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 7724 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 10 date: None words: 23921 flesch: 74 summary: The squire who had brought him his morning meal had been so agitated as to excite the captive's attention, and had then owned that the Earl of Warwick had proclaimed Henry king, and was on his march to London. And last night I slept not, and sense and memory became active for my living child, as they were wont to be only for the iron infant of my mind, and I said to myself, 'Lord Hastings is King Edward's friend; and King Edward spares not maiden honour. keywords: adam; alwyn; daughter; day; duchess; earl; edward; father; friar; hand; hastings; hath; heart; henry; katherine; king; life; lord; love; man; master; men; poor; sibyll; thee; thou; thy; time; tower; warner; warwick cache: 7724.txt plain text: 7724.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 7725 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 11 date: None words: 14122 flesch: 69 summary: But for the bark that has borne Edward king of England to the land of his ancestors there is no return! The royal adventurer then beckoned the Flemish master of the ship, who, with every sailor aboard, had debarked, and the loose dresses of the mariners made a strong contrast to the mail of the warriors with whom they mingled. The next day, the earl was employed in giving orders to his lieutenants to march forth, join the troops of his son-in-law, who were a mile from the walls, and advance upon Edward, who had that morning quitted Warwick town, when suddenly Sir Marmaduke Nevile rushed into his presence, and, faltering out, Beware, beware! placed in his hands the fatal letter which Clarence had despatched from Amboise. keywords: adam; clarence; duke; earl; edward; england; father; henry; king; london; lord; man; men; power; prince; richard; thee; thou; warner; warwick; york cache: 7725.txt plain text: 7725.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 7726 author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron title: The Last of the Barons — Volume 12 date: None words: 18155 flesch: 75 summary: Tear him from me, and if King Edward win the day, Lord Hastings shall have thy life; if Lord Warwick, thy days are numbered, too. Beware, and avaunt! Clarence had not deserted, said he to himself, unless he saw greater profit with King Edward! keywords: alwyn; battle; day; earl; edward; father; foe; friar; gloucester; hand; hastings; henry; king; knights; left; life; lord; man; men; montagu; round; thee; thou; thy; warwick cache: 7726.txt plain text: 7726.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 848 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses date: None words: 80708 flesch: 88 summary: Threat me with your bow, good Dick; threat me with it plain, he added. Drowning, in sooth; for why I did not pull you in along with me, the saints alone can tell! Nay, said Matcham, I would 'a' saved us both, good Dick, for I can swim. keywords: arms; arrow; bennet; black; daniel; day; dick; door; eyes; face; forest; foxham; good; hand; hath; head; heart; hour; house; jack; joanna; knight; know; lad; lawless; life; look; lord; man; master; master dick; matcham; men; moment; nay; oliver; open; place; poor; richard; right; set; shelton; shoreby; sir; sir daniel; snow; thought; time; way; wood cache: 848.txt plain text: 848.txt