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Authors: Michael Hicks

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Plate 5

The Neville screen, Durham Cathedral. (
RCHME, © Crown copyright
)

Plate 6

The south-west
corner of Guyscliff
Chapel. Note the massive
rock-hewn statue of the
Giant Guy. (
RCHME,
©
Crown copyright
)

Plate 7

Guy’s Tower, Warwick Castle, with the barbican and gatehouse beyond.
(
RCHME, © Crown copyright
)

Plate 8

Warwick as a mourner from the monument of his father-in-law Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick at the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick. (
Geoffrey Wheeler
)

Plate 9

Muzzled bears and ragged staves from the entrance to the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick. (
RCHME, © Crown copyright
)

Plate 10

Warwick’s seal as Lord of Glamorgan. The reverse depicts his wife’s coat of arms supported by a muzzled bear and surmounted by a swan crest. On the obverse Warwick is a mounted knight; note his coronet with swan crest. His shield bears his own Neville saltire with a label. (
Geoffrey Wheeler
)

(a)
(b)

(a) a muzzled bear and ragged staff that
has lost its head
, and
(b) a muzzled bear

Plate 11

Two cheap lead badges of the type distributed wholesale to Warwick’s retainers (
© British Museum
)

Plate 12

Cardiff, the principal town of Warwick’s lordship of Glamorgan, from the early seventeenth-century map of John Speed. (
Peter Jacobs
)

Plate 13

Following the Yorkist discomfiture at Ludford in 1459, Henry VI sits in triumph (
left
) whilst the future Edward IV and other Yorkist lords embark for Calais (
right
). (
British Library, MS Harley 7353
)

Plate 14

The east end of Tewkesbury Abbey refashioned by Hugh Despenser the Younger and encircled by the tombs of the founder and other de Clares and Despenser patrons. Note, front left, the splendid chantry of Warwick’s mother-in-law Isabel Despenser. (
RCHME, © Crown copyright
)

Plate 15

A court scene. Warwick’s brother-in-law John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury presents a book to King Henry VI and Queen Margaret of Anjou. (
British Library, MS
Royal EVI, f.2v
)

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