it did not cud the struggle. Varwick's reward was the Cptincy

of Dover, with the XVardcnshp of the Scots Mamhes, the oces of Lord Chamberlain, nd Lord Steward, and large grants of land; but Edward's marriage, in 14i4, with Elizabeth Woodville, displeased the kin r, e who for the sake of peace would hve preferred an 1 r alliance with France, and who presently, as will be seen, opposed both king md queen.

At his accession, Edward IV. was in his nineteenth year, of handsome appearance, and of eqmd gcniality and vigour; and he at nce bame popular. The sea had made him king, and he appears to have determined from the first never to neglect his fleet. or could he well afftwd to do so; for scareely had he assumed the crown when the ex-Queen Margaret went to t rance with the object of raising a naval armament there, and of so attempting to recover England for her husband, who had takeu refuge in Scotland.

For a short time after the triumph of the House of York, Warwick himself was Admiral of England. Later, in 146, he was superseded by William Neville, Lord Fauconberg, a who, in 141;1, had been created Earl ot' Kent. Kent, whose tenure of tffice was terminated by his death within three months, at once put to sea with a powerful fleet, carrying ten thousand soldiers, and commanded, under him, by Henry Bourchier, Earl of ]Essex, and Admirals Audley and Clinton; md, after scouring the Channel, attacked and burnt the town of Le Conqu6t in Brittany, ravaged the Isle of Ilh6, and took many prizes md lnUCh booty. s The death of Kent a may have put an end the cruise, which does uot seem to have been immediately re-commenced after the appointment, on October lth, of ll. ichard, l)uke of Gloucester and brother of the king, to the office of Lord High Admiral.

The temporary withdrawal of the fleet to port seems to have been seized upon by Margaret as a good opportunity for making her contemplated descent. She sailed in 1453 with a squadron, under the command of Pierre de Brz6, with the intentiou of landing at Tynemouth, lint, although she entered the bay, she was driven out

He was so appointed for tlne years by an agreement of FebmaLv 1st, 1482. Excheq. Wart. for Issues; but was succeeded by Kent on July 30th following. a St, n of Ilall,h, Earl of Westrain. land, and brother tf the Earl tf Salisbury. s Grafton, 659; Stowe, 416.

The m some grotrods for SUl,posing that both Kent, and Jt,hu q'ipt{fft, Eaq of Womesteh who, in the sramnet of 14, was "captain and keper of the sea" acted as Warwick's deputies.