<k ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



About a mile from Trougbend, is 



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Otter-bum, fo called from its fituation by the brook Otter; re- 

 imarkable for the bloody battle fought at it betweeh the Englijh 

 and Serfs.. 5th ./%/?, 12 K. Richard II, 1388, by 'moon-light; the 

 former commanded by the Earl of Northumberland, and his two 

 fons, //"jtryand Ralph Percy, young noblemen of {liftinguiflied 

 bravery and courage ; the latter, by Earl Douglas, who being de- 

 firous of atchieving glory by encountering Henry Lord Percy 

 fmgly, reputed the braveft man in England f-wj, lirnamed Hotfpur, 

 for his martial prowefs, was overmatched with flrength, though 

 equal in courage, and ilain. Intimidated by the fall of their 

 chieftain, the Scots were on the point of yielding the victory, but 

 a large body of forces arriving to their affiflance, under the lead- 

 ing of the Earl of Dunbar, the Engliffj were in their turn forced to 

 give way, and, at length, after a glorious ftruggle, to give ijp 

 the laurels ; 1 800 of them being flain ; among the prifoners were 

 Lord Percy, and his brother, Sir Robert Heron, Sir Robert Ogle, Sir 

 J'jhn Lilburn, Sir John Colwell, and other knights of Northumberland; 

 the Durham-militia, not arriving till after the battle, when they 

 were frightened home again by a manoeuvre of the Scotch Gene- 

 ral, who on their approach caufed every man ill his army to blow 

 a horn as loud as he could, the found of which from fo many 

 mouths being multiplied in the echo from the hills, made them 

 feem more numerous and formidable than they were (x). 



The encampments of the two armies are Hill confpicuous, alfo 

 tumuli or fepultures of the /lain. 



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(x) S<e Sir John Froifart's account of this battle in Holing/heel, allowed to be the befh 



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