A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . -ing the exiled Henry, a single Percy existed who couldprove descent from the ancient line.^ Upon the singlelife of this boy of seventeen—surrounded as that life wasby a thousand dangers—depended the very existence ofthe race of Louvain-Percy. ^ Holinshed. Sir Ralph Percy had married Eleanor, daughter and heir ofLaurence Acton of Acton, Co. Northumberland, and left issue three sons, Henry,Ralph, and George. His eldest son Sir Henry Percy, Knt, of Acton, wasgovernor of Bamborough, and died in i486, leaving a
A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . -ing the exiled Henry, a single Percy existed who couldprove descent from the ancient line.^ Upon the singlelife of this boy of seventeen—surrounded as that life wasby a thousand dangers—depended the very existence ofthe race of Louvain-Percy. ^ Holinshed. Sir Ralph Percy had married Eleanor, daughter and heir ofLaurence Acton of Acton, Co. Northumberland, and left issue three sons, Henry,Ralph, and George. His eldest son Sir Henry Percy, Knt, of Acton, wasgovernor of Bamborough, and died in i486, leaving a son, John Percy of Acton,who sold his estates and left Northumberland circ. 1520. (See Genealogy,Table n.) ^ This is all the more remarkable as, a few generations before, Northumber-land and Yorkshire had swarmed with Percies of the blood. But suchwipings out of fine old families during the Wars of the Roses were commonenough, and explain the fact that so few of the English titled persons of to-daycan satisfactorily prove their descent from baronial houses of Plantagenet
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