A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . ak as they were mentally vigorous. Thebloody Wars of the Roses could not destroy this fruitfulstock while still rooted in its congenial North ; but oncetransplanted to city soil, and trained in the new fashions ofElizabethan and early Stuart times, it withered lamentably,and well nigh perished altogether. What a difference existsbetween the picture of young Hotspur, that infant Marsin swaddling clothes, leading the assault upon Berwickwhile not yet in his teens, and the sickly Earl Josceline,learned in many
A history of the house of Percy : from the earliest times down to the present century . ak as they were mentally vigorous. Thebloody Wars of the Roses could not destroy this fruitfulstock while still rooted in its congenial North ; but oncetransplanted to city soil, and trained in the new fashions ofElizabethan and early Stuart times, it withered lamentably,and well nigh perished altogether. What a difference existsbetween the picture of young Hotspur, that infant Marsin swaddling clothes, leading the assault upon Berwickwhile not yet in his teens, and the sickly Earl Josceline,learned in many sciences, yet doomed to die in early man-hood, the last male of his line. But even had they desiredto do so, the Percies could not have remained Borderchieftains after the Reformation. The policy of the Cecils,and of the monarch whom they served, altogether forbadethat; and the seventh and eighth Earls lost their livesbecause, while owning the old, noble blood, and followingthe ancient faith, they had dreamed of reviving the Percyviceroyalty north of the Humber. London, April ???.jHfr^;^ •f%piir//eest .1^^ THE HOUSE OF PERCY THE FIRST LINE OF PERCY When William the Conqueror came with his warriors tocrush the Saxon power, there dwelt in Lower Normandy,hard by the burgh of St. L6, a certain noblePerdes won family, knowu, from its chief domain, by the sur-foothoid in j^^j^e Qf i3g Perci. England. Tradition bestows upon these lords of Percia remote Scandinavian origin ; and monkish historiansafterwards traced the house from those old Danish sea-rovers who harried every European shore from Shannonmouth to Tiber. In the words of Dugdale :— This ancientand right noble family do derive their descent fro7n Mainfredde Percy, which Mainfred cajue out of Denmark into Nor-mandy, before the adventwe of the famous Rollo thither^ ^And a rhyming chronicler of the fifteenth century - tells usthat a son of this Mainfred the Viking w^as one of those whofought side by side with R
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