During this time Petworth in Sussex became the main Percy residence. The 8th Earl of Northumberland: Oil painting on canvas, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (c.1532-1585) by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 – London 1641). A posthumous three-quarter-length portrait, standing, ...
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and he became incensed when King Henry refused to pay his ransom – possibly because he was afraid of the Mortimers, whose strong claim to the throne had been passed over in his own favour. Edmund therefore
Henry Abramson is a specialist in Jewish History and Thought, serving as Dean of Lander College for Men, Touro University. A native of northern Ontario, Canada, he earned his PhD in History from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the Jews of Ukraine, published by Harvard Univers...
Archibald, Earl of Douglas– leader of the Scottish rebels Sir Richard Vernon, 8th Baron of Shipbrook Richard le Scrope ("Scroop"), Archbishop of York Sir Michael – a friend to the Archbishop of York Lady Percy("Kate", though her real name was Elizabeth) – Hotspur's wife and Mortimer...
I cannot speak at length of his kindness, consideration, and sympathy; nor of his generosity, the extent of which was very great and can never be known–it was sometimes exercised in unexpected ways, as when he gave my laundress a shilling because it was “such a beastly foggy morning”;...