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EDWARD thority ; and had become from a simple knight with a slender fortune the possessor of more than 200 manors and parcels of land. The discontented lords, directed by Dudley, earl of Warwick, gradually withdrew from court and met in London with bodies of their re- tainers. The protector, as soon as he received intelligence of their movements, took the king with him to Windsor, and called by proclama- tion on all faithful subjects to join him at Hampton court in arms for the protection of the royal person against a conspiracy. Mul- titudes of the common people, but scarcely a gentleman, obeyed his summons, and his cause was rendered desperate when the council de- clared against him. The king was obliged to sanction the vote for his deposition, and he was brought to London and incarcerated in the tower, Oct. 14, 1549. Warwick dissembled for the moment his purpose concerning the prisoner, and was obliged by his position, though a secret Catholic, to favor the cause of the reformation, and, though a rancorous enemy of Somerset, soon to set that nobleman free, and to give his own son in marriage to Somerset's daughter. But when Warwick had received the office of lord high admiral, had been raised to the dignity of duke of Northumberland, had become the undisputed chief of the government, and had annihi- lated the power of Somerset, he was able to proceed further against that duke, who was again committed to the tower in 1551, was convicted of felony, and executed on Tower hill, Jan. 22, 1552. Warwick next per- suaded Edward to make a new settlement ex- cluding his sisters from the succession to the throne, and giving the nomination to Lady Jane Grey, who had been his playmate and com- panion in studies. Edward sank rapidly after this, and died in the 16th year of his age and the 7th of his reign. His accomplishments were such as to surprise the famous Italian physician Jerome Cardan, who visited him in his last sickness ; and for his diary and other compositions he is included by Walpole in his list of royal authors. He was succeeded by his sister Mary, after Lady Jane Grey's nomi- nal reign of a few days. The literary remains of Edward VI., edited with historical notices and a biographical memoir by John Gough Nichols, 'were printed in 1859, for the Rox- burghe club (2 vols., London). EDWARD, prince of Wales, surnamed the Black Prince, from the color of his armor, eld- est son of Edward III. and Philippa of Hai- naut, born at Woodstock, June 15, 1330, died June 8, 1376. In his 16th year he accompanied his father in his invasion of France, and he held the nominal command of the largest and most actively engaged division of the English forces in the battle of Crecy. Among the slain was John of Luxemburg, the blind king of Bohemia, whose crest of three ostrich feathers, with the motto IcJi dien (I serve), was adopted by the prince of Wales, and has always been EDWARDES 439 borne by his successors. In 1356 he gained the victory of Poitiers, in which the French King John was taken prisoner. He returned to Eng- land in 1357, the king of France on a splendidly caparisoned charger forming the principal orna- ment of the cavalcade with which he entered London. In 1361 the king of England united all his dominions between the Loire and the Pyrenees into one principality, and bestowed it upon the Black Prince, with the title of prince of Aquitaine. There Pedro the Cruel took refuge from Castile, and young Edward undertook to replace .him on his throne. He marched through the valley of Roncesvalles and by Pamplona to the frontiers of Castile, met and defeated Henry of Trastamare on the plains between Navarrete and Najera, was dis- appointed of the reimbursements which had been stipulated, and returned into Guienne with an exhausted treasury and a shattered constitution. To defray the expenses of his court, perhaps the most magnificent in Europe, and to fulfil his contracts with the troops that had followed him to Spain, he imposed taxes which made him unpopular with his barons. Summoned in 1369 to answer before King Charles of France to the complaints of his vas- sals, he replied that he would obey, but at the head of 60,000 men. He appeared in the field, but the French generals avoided an engage- ment and garrisoned their strong places. He laid siege to Limoges, captured it and reduced it to ashes, and massacred the inhabitants. This was the end of his military career, and by the advice of his physicians he returned to England, where he lingered for six years. The Black Prince is portrayed by contemporary writers as the most heroic of princes. He mar- ried his cousin Joan, countess of Kent, famed for her beauty, by whom he left one son, Richard, who succeeded Edward III. as king. EDWARDES, Sir Herbert Benjamin, an English soldier and author, born at Frodesley, Shrop- shire, Nov. 12, 1819, died Dec. 23, 1868. He studied at King's college, London, entered the East Indian service, was wounded in the battle of Moodkee, December, 1845, and par- ticipated in the victory of Sobraon, February, 1846. When Moolraj, in April, 1848, stirred up a rebellion of the Sikhs, it was the courage and skill of Lieut. Edwardes that saved the British power in the Punjaub. With Col. Cort- landt he moved down the W. bank of the Indus at the head of 7,000 men, and crossed the stream with a small body of infantry to attack the enemy. He was confronted by a force of 12,000 men, and after a hard-fought battle, memorable for a gallant charge of the mounted British officers upon the Sikh front, the insurgents were routed by the opportune arrival of Col. Cortlandt, and made their way to Mooltan. In the subsequent siege of that city and its assault he gained new laurels, but lost his right hand by the accidental discharge" of a pistol. He final- ly reached the rank of major general. After the war he visited England, married, and pub-