A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . rmiston accompanied them for a fewmiles, and then bade them adieu with many goode wishes^and promises to guard my lady of Northtimberland from allharme How well the ruffians kept their word may bejudged from what follows. No sooner were the earls out of the way, than the menof Liddesdale, headed by Black Ormiston, broke into thehut where Lady Northumberland lay, and utterly regardlessof her ill-health, pillaged her of well nigh everything shepossessed. The laird of Ormestoune . . spoulzeist theErie of North
A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . rmiston accompanied them for a fewmiles, and then bade them adieu with many goode wishes^and promises to guard my lady of Northtimberland from allharme How well the ruffians kept their word may bejudged from what follows. No sooner were the earls out of the way, than the menof Liddesdale, headed by Black Ormiston, broke into thehut where Lady Northumberland lay, and utterly regardlessof her ill-health, pillaged her of well nigh everything shepossessed. The laird of Ormestoune . . spoulzeist theErie of Northumberlands house and his wyff of all her jewellisyher claithing and porse,^^ says a contemporary doubt that *^great thefe, John o the Syde, had a handin the transaction as well as Ormiston; perhaps, sinceLady Northumberland was the tenant of his hovel, helooked upon the taking of her goods as a species of rent-levy. Only the clothes which she wore were left tothe unfortunate woman; and such of her friends and Sadler Papers, ii. 71. ??* Sharpe ; Memorials, p. THE HOUSE OF PERCY 307 retainers as had remained with her were treated in a likemanner.! Stretched upon rushes, in the bare hut, Lady Northum-berland lay racked with fever until the New Year. Fortu-nately one of her husbands physicians had accompaniedthe party from Hexham, and remained behind in Liddesdaleto watch over the countess. Without the aid of his skill, shecould hardly have survived through so many , too, the ill news of the disaster which had over-taken Northumberland was not brought to her, until herhealth had improved sufficiently to bear it. Her servants,left by Ormiston unarmed and with scarcely a rag to coverthem, snared the small game of the forest, and even usedthe mosses and lichens for food. ^ At length, on January 6, a kindly Scots gentleman, Kerof Fernieherst, vindicated the chivalry of the Border-sideby riding at his own risk into Liddesdale and succouringthe count
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