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moncd to fit in the famous parliament, 48 K. Henry III, 1264; 

 which, with the parliament in the year following, and in an- 

 other in the i8th of K. Edward I, are believed to be the models 

 of our prcfent parliaments, confifting of Lords and Commons ; 

 this, whereto his lordfhip was fummoncd, "being the fir ft of that 

 kind upon record for the commons to have a iliare in the Icgifia- 

 ture (c). In the expedition againft the I! 'deb, n K. EJ*ivard\, 

 1282, his lordfhip commanded the Gafcaigners (f). He died in 

 that king's reign. To his only daughter, married to Sir Gilbert dc 

 Alton, Knight of Alton, by the river Derwent, near ScGrbnugb, he 

 gave his barony of Malt on. He gave his barony of Almv'ick to 

 an illegitimate fon, William Vcfcy, a minor, who for fomc dif- 

 courtefy done to his guardian and feofl'ec in truil, Anthony Beck, 

 bifliop of Durham, was not permitted to take poileffion of it fg) ; 

 being fold to Henry Lord Percy, baron of Topcllffe and Spoff'ord, in 

 York/hire, 3 K. Edivard II, 1310 -, his Majefly and Sir Gilbert de Alton 

 confirming the title in the fame year (h). 



Of the noble houfe of Percy (I) there were five Lords and thir- 

 teen Earls ; William the firfl Lord Percy coming into England with 

 K. William I, and prefentcd with a barony of thirty knights 

 fees (k), 



(e) See the Writ of Summons in the Fcedera Angllcana. 



(f) HoL Chron. vol. ii. p. 283. 



(g) Dugdale. (k) Rym. Feed. vol. ii. p. 190. 



(!) Perci. Madox. 

 Percie. Camden. 

 Piercy. Speed. 

 Percy. Rot. Mag. Norihitmbr. 



(k) Madox's Baron. Anglic, p. 31. 93. 224. 

 VOL. II. A a a Henry, 



