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Did you all see it tonight?
It was about a ship found near Newport and it's story. It had a lot to do with the Kingmaker and his machinations as Marcher lord of the town, his piracy, beheading Herbert, his regular changing of sides and his end. It also mentioned his second Earldom (Salisbury), borne by his granddaughter.
Fascinating.

--- In , "Stephen LARK"
<smlark@i...> wrote:
> Did you all see it tonight?
> It was about a ship found near Newport and it's story. It had a
lot to do with the Kingmaker and his machinations as Marcher lord of
the town, his piracy, beheading Herbert, his regular changing of
sides and his end. It also mentioned his second Earldom (Salisbury),
borne by his granddaughter.
> Fascinating.

I saw it and thought it was excellent (though we could have done
without the battle reconstructions, which I always think
superfluous). The Times' previewer called it dull - more fool him!
The only thing that niggle was that they got the situation at the
end of 1469 all wrong. Far from Warwick being very much in command
of things in late November, he was in big trouble, as Edward IV had
by then re-established himself at Westminster after Warwick had let
him go (that was a strange episode all round), and Warwick sought a
pardon from him. I suspect this was a precaution more than anything
else, but at this time (not got exact dates to hand, but certainly
late November - December) Warwick was being eased onto the sidelines
by Edward.

Ann

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