A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . er to be dwelt upon (his unhappy marriedlife)—Northumberland proved himself to be the best andmost reliable Lord Warden that the Border had knownfor many a day. It must have taken no little strength ofwill, and no little of the finest kind of bravery, for a manracked by disease, poor in pocket, and betrayed by thosewho should have been his most loyal friends, to defend thefrontier so stoutly and with such success. It was not aloneagainst the Scots, now fully recovered from the crushingblow of Flodden and mo
A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . er to be dwelt upon (his unhappy marriedlife)—Northumberland proved himself to be the best andmost reliable Lord Warden that the Border had knownfor many a day. It must have taken no little strength ofwill, and no little of the finest kind of bravery, for a manracked by disease, poor in pocket, and betrayed by thosewho should have been his most loyal friends, to defend thefrontier so stoutly and with such success. It was not aloneagainst the Scots, now fully recovered from the crushingblow of Flodden and more vigorous in their inroads thanever, that he had to fight. Turbulence and open rebellionwithin his own territories rendered the task doubly , as if all this were not enough for one of scant experi-ence to cope with, there was ever Wolsey at his elbow,fault-finding, contemning, spying — doing everything, infact, but offering encouragement or aid. Rarely had the Borders, especially upon the Scottishside, been in a more disturbed condition than when North- Prudhoe. n Mill. THE HOUSE OF PERCY 193 iimberland assumed the staff of wardenship. Sir RogerLassells, his principal lieutenant, writing to him about thistime, declared that,—As tochyng tJie order of the Bordures,the thefes of boothe sydes ^ never did steale so faste. If therebe not a stay in it shortlye, I fere vie it shall be past making ofredress ; for the Kynges company doth rob be and spoyle all oftheym that belo7igith to the Earl of Anguish{? and the Earllykewyse and his frendes doth robbe and spoyle all theyme thattakes the Kynges part . ... by reason whereof the Borduresof both sydes takith all that they may gett. ^ On the Englishside of the frontier there were several bands of freebooters,recognising no law, and murdering and pillaging Scot orNorthumbrian with impartiality. Many of these Ishmaelitesof the Border belonged to ancient and honourable houseswhich had fought side by side with the Percies in by
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