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Earl of Northumberland, with limitation to him and his heirs-male, 

 and failing them, to his younger brother, Henry Percy, and his 

 heirs-male; the patent dated April 3oth, and May ift 1557, at 

 Weftminjler. He was alfo made lord warden of the marches to- 

 wards Scotland, with Lord Wharton ; the patent bearing date dugiift 

 ad, 1557, at Richmond (f). The Scots croffing the Tweed in the 

 fame year, under the conduct of Sir Andrew Karr, were defeated 

 by his lordfhip, and Sir John Forfter, near Cheviot, after a very 

 fevere and fliarp engagement ; Sir John being fhot through the 

 mouth into the neck, and through the thigh, and his horfe 

 killed under him ; Sir Andrew Karr, the Scotch general taken pri- 

 foner. The year following, his lordfhip's brother, Sir Henry 

 Percy, entered Scotland with about fcven or eight hundred horfc, 

 and two thoufand foot, and after burning the towns of Duns and 

 Lan^ton, engaged the Scotch forces at Swinton, and obtained a com- 

 pleat victory ; his valour, and the valour of his officers, greatly 

 apDlaudcd. The two brothers had another encounter with the 

 Scots, and their French auxiliaries, in the fame year, at Grlndon, 

 which ended in their total defeat ; many of them in their flight 

 drowned in the Tweed ; four upright ftone-pillars ftill to be feen 

 on a hillock in a neigbouring field, memorials of the chieftains 

 flain, and buried there (g). 



His lordfliip carried the fword of ftate before the queen to the 

 parliament-houfe, 5 Q^Mary, 1562. He was one of the eleven 



de Corbridge, cum certis terris in Titlington, Long-haugh, Newton, Boifhill, Red-mire, 

 Larder-burn, Bowght-hill, Green-haugh, Brunt-bank, Burn-mouth, et Dunftede. 



Efcaet. de anno 10 R. //*. , 



(f) Rym. Fod. vol. xv. p. 46, 462, 468. 

 Ata Regia, vol. iii. 8vo. p. 409. 



(g) See Grindon, 



lords 



