The Herald and genealogist . mythic Earls of Caux and Poictiers before the Con- THE HOUSE OF PERCY. 273 quest of England, he remarks that, saving the -said early descentand a few other apocrypha when the compiler was seduced by familypedigrees and Pierponts MS., the narrative detail of Bishop Percy inthe later editions of Collinss Peerage is wonderfully correct. Thelight and glory of the house might well allow a total loss of the Earlsin Normandy if it could clearly and indis^nitably boast of Bishop Percyas a scion. It was to the 1779 edition of Collins that the Bishop com-municated his labour
The Herald and genealogist . mythic Earls of Caux and Poictiers before the Con- THE HOUSE OF PERCY. 273 quest of England, he remarks that, saving the -said early descentand a few other apocrypha when the compiler was seduced by familypedigrees and Pierponts MS., the narrative detail of Bishop Percy inthe later editions of Collinss Peerage is wonderfully correct. Thelight and glory of the house might well allow a total loss of the Earlsin Normandy if it could clearly and indis^nitably boast of Bishop Percyas a scion. It was to the 1779 edition of Collins that the Bishop com-municated his labours: they occupy there 211 pages, pp. 280—390:and they were never reprinted at the same length, a fact which is worthremembering. We may add that in the volume of Testamenta Ebora-censia, which is now passing through the press for the Surtees Society,the will of the Earl who was murdered in the insurrection at Thirskin 1489 is printed for the first time, and will be found an interestingaddition to the materials for his lif(\. NOTICES OF THE ELLISES. To the Editor of the Herald cmd Genealogist. Sir,—Tlie critique of my work—Notices of the Ellises—in jour lastnumber induces me to request you will insert the following remarks :— Conscious that the long title of my first Number might seem presump-tuous, and that I had omitted the word presumed before the word origin, in the second and third Numbers I merely called my workNotices of the Ellises. This you do not state; indeed, you were not bound VOL. III. T 274 NOTICES OF THE ELLISE^. to do so: but if you had, it would have abated the pretensions of my workin the eyes of your readers as judged by its first title. You have given my list of variations of the name of Ellis, which youmention as taken [for granted]. My words were, investigationproves that they are variations of one name, and I mean it. I have no ambition of being reckoned among those sober heraldic in-quirers who are contented to believe that crests were not adopt
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