SALISBURY. 37 acknowledged as EARL OF SALISBURY, on the death of his wife's father,(*) and satin the pari. sum. 12 July (1429) 7 Hen. VI. as such Earl, tho' it was not till ■1 May 1442(b) that the dignity was confirmed to him fur life by letters patent. At the coronation of Henry VI, (> N"V. 142.9, he acted as Deputy-Constable, and was on an embassy to Scotland" shortly afterwards, and to France in 1-136 ; c> K.G., 1 136-38. After taking a somewhat undecided part between the Court party and that of the Duke of York, he, in 1453, joined the latter, by whom, when Protector, he was in April 1454 made L. -Chancellor, which office he held till next year, when the King recovered his power. In 1459 he joined the Yorkists in arms, was at their defeat at Dlore heath, 22 Sep., ami was attainted Nov. 1450, tho' restored ~i Oct. 1-160, in which month he was made Great Chamberlain. lie was captured at the battle of Wakefield and beheaded next day, 31 Dec. 1460, by the Lancastrian party. He was bur, at liisham afsd.C) Will dat. 10 May 1157, pr. 23 June 1 461, () there having been previously, 13 April 1 161 an admon. to his widow " Alesia." IX. 1 100, ti KiciiAUD (Xeviu.), Earl of "Warwick, Earl of to Salisbury, 4cc., 1st a. and h., h. 22 Nov. 1428, having m. Anne, 1471. sua jure Countess of WARWICK, sister and eventually coheir (sole heir of the whole blood) of Henry (BEAT/CHAMP), Duke AND EaRL OF Warwick, was in consequence thereof continual in that Karldom, 23 July 1449, being afterwards treated Earl of Warwick, 2 March I t 10/oQ. He sue. his father as Earl of Salisbury, Sec. 31 Dee. 1160. He d. s.p.m. 15 April 1171, being slain at Barnet, when all his titles fell into abeyance. See fuller particulars under " Warwick." »«•••* X. U72, ~. Geokge (Plantagexet), Duke of Clarence, so er to 1461, yr. br. of Edward IV., ft. 21 Oct. 1449, having m. 11 July 1478. 1 169, Isabel, 1st da. and coheir of the abovenamed liichard (Neviu.) Babl of Warwick and Karl of Salisbury; was, by separate patents, each dat. 25 March 1472, cr. KARL OF WARWICK and EARL OF SALISBURY. He was attainted 15 Jan. 2477/8, whereby all his honours became forfeited. (c) See fuller particulars under " Clare or Clarence " Dukedom, cr. 1161. (*) " The title of Earl of Salisbury was attributed to Richard Neville in the inf. taken (eseh. 7 Hen. VI, No 57) on the death of his father-in-law, and Ehortly after, doing his homage (Itot. fin. 7 Hen. VI, m. 9), he had livery, of his wife's lands, she being then 22 years of age." Nichols's " Earldom of Salisbury," where it is added that tho' Nicolas has given 1442, the date of the confirmation of the Earldom to Neville as that of the accession thereto, " it is clear that it should be altered to 1428, the date of his father-in-law's death. The "Nat Biegr." states that "Neville's claim to the title of Earl of Salisbury in right of his wife was approved by the Judges aud provisionally confirmed by the Peers in great council until the King came of age. Long before that event, however, he hail taken his seat in pari, as such Earl. M Tat. 20 Hen. VI, p. 4, m. 3. ( r j His "abilities were not of a high order, but he possessed great territorial and family influence. He never became popular, like his Sou [the Earl of Warwick]. A Yorkist ballad maker iu 1460 referred to him coldly as Richard, Earl of Salisbury, called Prudence " [Nat. Biogr.] His portrait " from the Earl of Warwick's tomb, 1453," is reproduced " after C Stothard" in " Doyle." () It is printed by the Surtees Society in their lift. Ebor." ( c ) The following note by Courthope is here subjoined, altho' the editor of this work for the reasons stated below, ventures (with great diffidence, however), to ditler from the conjecture thereiu made : — " Edward Plantagenet, son aud heir of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence, probably succeeded his mother in the Earldom of Salisbury 1176, aud, though known only as Earl of Warwick and attainted by that title, the Act of Restoration iu favour of the Countess of Salisbury (5 Hen. VIII.) 1513, expressly calls her ' sister aud heir of blood of Edward, late Earl of Salisbury and Warwick, bou of Isabel, daughter and heir of Richard, Earl of Salisbury, sou and heir of Alice, Countess of Salisbury,' wheuee it may be inferred that he succeeded in 1476 to the Earldom of Salisbury, formerly vested in his great grandmother Alice, inasmuch as the Earldom of Salisbury, created iu favour of his father, George, Duke
