207.
** Grafton, p.

687.
*** Comines, liv.iii.chap.5.Hall, fol.

208.
**** Comines, liv.iii.chap.

5.
The scene which ensues resembles more the fiction of a poem or romance than an event in true history.

The prodigious popularity of Warwick,[*] the zeal of the Lancastrian party, the spirit of discontent with which many were infected, and the general instability of the English nation, occasioned by the late frequent revolutions, drew such multitudes to his standard, that in a very few days his army amounted to sixty thousand men and was continually increasing.