. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. 391 was one of the younger sons of Henry Percy, second Earl ofNorthumberland, by the Lady Eleanor his wife, daughter ofRalph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, by his second Countess,Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt. Ihis Sir Ralph Percy,who was born at his fathers castle at Leckenfield in Yorkshire, onthe day of St. Tiburcius, (l ith August) 1425, was in 1450 Seneschalor Steward of the Earl his fathers
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. 391 was one of the younger sons of Henry Percy, second Earl ofNorthumberland, by the Lady Eleanor his wife, daughter ofRalph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, by his second Countess,Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt. Ihis Sir Ralph Percy,who was born at his fathers castle at Leckenfield in Yorkshire, onthe day of St. Tiburcius, (l ith August) 1425, was in 1450 Seneschalor Steward of the Earl his fathers courts, an honourable post in thatage ; and was afterwards appointed by the crown, Governor of thecastles of Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh in Northumberland. * Onthe breaking out of the civil wars of York and Lancaster, Sir Ralphwas, like the rest of his family, a stout asserter of the Lancastrianinterest, to which at last he fell a martyr; for, having been prevailedon to make submissions to King Edward IV. in 1 462, when the causeof Lancaster seemed quite abandoned both b} King Henry himself,and his more martial Queen ; yet afterwards in 1454, when the lattermade an effort to revive th
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