Warwick Castle and its Earls From Saxon Times to the Present Day Vol. I

Contains two photogravure plates and 172 illustrations. THE history of Warwick Castle is almost as old as the history of England itself. Earls of Warwick, belonging to each of the families that have successively held the title, have played their part in most of the dramas of English history. We meet them in our foreign wars: at Crecy, and Poictiers, and Agincourt, and in Queen Elizabeth’s expedition to Havre. They have been even more conspicuous in our civil wars: the wars of Stephen and of Edwa