1623.] THE EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 301 



against whom men may talke, but they cannot conquer." 

 — " Calvalrice," Lond., 1617, p. 2, 



"^ Henry Percy, 9th Earl OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., 

 succeeded his father (who was murdered in the Tower) June 

 21, 1585. He was one of the lords assembled in council, who 

 signed, at the Palace of Whitehall, on March 28, 1603, the 

 letter to the Lord Eure, and other commissioners for the 

 Treaty at Breame, directing them how to proceed, and 

 signifying to them, " That the Queen had departed this life 

 on the 24th, and that King James of Scotland was become 

 King of England, and received with universal acclamations 

 and consent of all persons, whatsoever degree and quality." 

 When the king, at Edinburgh, in answer to the letter of the 

 council signifying the death of the queen, brought by his 

 lordship's brother, Sir Charles Percy, authorized the con- 

 tinuance in office of all the lords and other counsellors of the 

 late queen ; he signified at the same time his further pleasure, 

 that the Earl of Northumberland should be added to their 

 number. The earl was present in council on May 3rd, at 

 Broxborne, on the king's delivery of the Great Seal to Sir 

 Thomas Egerton, and attended the king to the Tower of 

 London soon after. His lordship was subsequently impli- 

 cated in the Gunpowder Plot, and although he proved his 

 innocence, he was, nevertheless, " cast," as recorded by 

 Osborne, " into the Star Chamber," and sentenced to a fine 

 of i^3O,000, with imprisonment in the Tower during the king's 

 pleasure, and he actually suffered incarceration therein for 

 some years. The earl married Dorothy, sister of the Earl of 

 Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, and widow of Sir Thomas 

 Perrot, by whom he had a son, Algernon, who succeeded to 

 the honours, etc., of his family on the death of his father, 

 November 5, 1632. 



The importance of horse-breeding is duly james i. 

 inculcated by the author of " The Court of ^°^^?s- 

 King James," who enjoins all courtiers " to be very 



