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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.