Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved From Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of His Majesty, the Nobility, and the Public Collections; With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions Stanley to join him in arms against Edward and received a firm denial. He was now appointed Steward Of the royal household, and in 1474 attended the King in his warlike expedition into France, for the aid Of which be levied from his estates, and equipped, forty horse, and three hundred archers. In this enter prise little seems to have occurred worthy of note, but it may be presumed that proof was not wanting Of his military talents, since in the invasion of Scotland by Richard Duke of Gloucester, in 1482 the command of the right wing Of the army, amounting to four thousand men, was intrusted to his charge, at the head Of which force he carried Berwick by assault, and performed several other signal services. During his absence the King died, and Richard returned to assume the supreme government, under the title Of Protector. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.