A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . London, to be fixed upon the bridge of that city! ^ In such wise died Henry Percy, first Earl of Northum-berland. While neither a great captain, nor possessed ofany extraordinary intellectual gifts, he had all the dauntlesscourage and rugged honesty of his race. The racial obsti-nacy and quickness of temper also distinguished him ; andthe upright independence of his nature can be judged fromhis vigorous support of Wickliff, as well as for the stoutefforts which he made in favour of court and parliamentaryre
A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . London, to be fixed upon the bridge of that city! ^ In such wise died Henry Percy, first Earl of Northum-berland. While neither a great captain, nor possessed ofany extraordinary intellectual gifts, he had all the dauntlesscourage and rugged honesty of his race. The racial obsti-nacy and quickness of temper also distinguished him ; andthe upright independence of his nature can be judged fromhis vigorous support of Wickliff, as well as for the stoutefforts which he made in favour of court and parliamentaryreform throughout the reign of Richard II. When his char-acter and attainments are compared with those of his con-temporaries among the English or Scots nobility, the firstEarl of Northumberland must be accorded a very highplace. Seldom surely in the history of the Island havethree such near relatives occupied, at one and the sametime, a position so prominent, or encountered harsher fates,than did Northumberland, Harry Hotspur, and Thomas,Earl of Worcester. 1 Holinshed. ^ SEAL OF HENRY, SECOND EARI, OF NORTHUMBERLAND IV When the old earl fell at Bramham Moor, the heir of his name and race—Henry Percy, only son of Hotspur—was a sojourner across the border. Young Percy The son of • , ? rci. u • u f Hotspur, ? was in his fifteenth year, having been born on^I^Eari 3^^ February 1394. His grandfather had sentofNorthum- him into Scotland in 1405, when the clouds wereberiand. oucc iiiorc beginning to lower upon the house of Percy ; and mainly to protect the lad from Henry and hatred, the Scots held him as a prisoner ofwar, refusing to yield him up to the English sovereign, onthe plea that the latter had similarly detained Douglas andother Scottish prisoners after Homildoun.^ At the northerncourt, however, the attainted heir of Northumberland wastreated with great kindness, and allowed every privilegeconsistent with his own safety. It is interesting
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