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The account given in the foregoing Ballad of young Percy,
the son of Hotspur, receives the following confirmation from
the old Chronicle of Whitby:
“Henry Percy, the son of Sir Henry Percy, that was slayne
at Shrewesbery, and of Elizabeth, the daughter of the Erle
of Marche, after the death of his father and grauntsyre, was
exild into Scotland
in the time of King Henry the Fourth:
but in the time of King Henry the Fifth, by the labour of Johanne
the Countes of Westmerland, (whose daughter Alianor
he had wedded in coming into England,) he recovered the
King's grace, and the countye of Northumberland, so was
the second Erle of Northumberland.
“And of this Alianor his wife, he begat IX Sonnes and III
Daughters, whose names be Johanne, that is buried at Whytbye;
Thomas, Lord Egremont; Katheryne Gray of Rythin;
Sir Raffe Percy; William Percy, a Bishopp; Richard Percy;
John, that dyed without issue; [another John, called by Vincent,
Johannes Percy senior de Warkworth;] George Percy,
Clerk; Henry that dyed without issue; Anne;”—[besides
the eldest son and successor here omitted, because he comes
in below, viz.]
“Henry Percy, the third Erle of Northumberland.”
Vid. Harl. MSS. No. 692. (26.) in the
British Museum.
THE END.
