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Henry, the fourth Lord Percy, who added to the grandeur of 

 his family by the acquifition of the barony of Alnwick, was fum- 

 moned to the parliament at Carlijle, 35 K. Edward I, 1307. His 

 Lordfhip, with the Lord Robert Clifford, and the Earl of Pembroke, 

 obtained a compleat victory over Robert Bruce, at Methfen, in Scot- 

 land, foon after his coronation at Scone. Among the prifoners was 

 his Queen, daughter to the Earl of Ulfter, who at the folemnity 

 of their coronation is recorded to have faid, " That fhe feared 

 " they fhould prove but as a fummer-king and queen, fuch as 

 " in country-towns the young folks choofe for fport, to dance 

 " about may-poles." The king gave the earldom of Carrick, her 

 hufband's inheritance, to Lord Henry Percy ; who in endeavouring 

 to fecurc the rents from being feized, loft part of his armed 

 retinue, horfes and plate, and was forced to take refuge in a 

 Scotch fortrefs, till relieved by his fovereign, K. Edward. The 

 Lord Robert Clifford was prefented by his Majefty with Hert and 

 Hertnej's, in the Bifhoprick of Durham, faving always the right 

 yet that belonged to the church of Durham, Totenham and Toten- 

 hamjhire (I). 



Hsnry Lord Percy was one of the twelve barons to whom the 

 government of England was ailigned in the minority of K. Ed- 

 ward III, 1327. The year following he loft his Scotch pofleffions, 

 no Engli/hman being then permitted to hold any in Scotland, unlefs 

 he lived upon them, and became a Scotch fubject, faid to be ow- 

 ing to the counfel of the queen dowager of England, and the 

 Lord Mortimer. He was fummoned to the famous parliament 

 ttWeJlminfter, asd October, 3 K. Edward III, 1329. He was one 

 of the lords lent to Paris to negotiate a treaty, 5 K. Edward III, 



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