GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
Northumberland was not a Percy at all, though the Percys had 
previously been Earls of Northumberland for one hundred and sixty 
years. 
It may be interesting in this connection to quote from an old 
number of the Quarterly Review concerning the history of this 
famous English family, by which it will be seen that for several 
centuries tragedy dogged their footsteps. “‘ Their ancestor, 
Jocelaine de Louvaine, a younger son of the ancient Princes of 
Brabant, and brother of Adelina, second consort of our Henry L, 
married, in 1122, Agnes de Percy, the heiress of a great northern 
baron, seated at Topcliffe and Spoffard, County of York, on condi- 
tion that the male posterity should bear the name of Percy. Their 
son, Henry, was great-grandfather of Henry, Lord Percy, sum- 
moned to Parliament in 1299, whose great-grandson Henry, fourth 
Lord Perey, was created Earl of Northumberland in 1877, at the 
coronation of Richard II. He was slain at Bramham Moor in 
1408. His son, Henry, Lord Percy (‘ Hotspur’), had already 
fallen at Shrewsbury in 1408. Henry, second Earl, the son of 
Hotspur, was slain at the Battle of St. Albans, in 1455. His son 
Henry, third Earl, was slain at the battle of Towton in 1461. 
Henry, fourth Earl, was murdered by an insurrectionary mob at 
Thirske, in Yorkshire, in 1480. Henry, fifth Earl, died a natural 
death in 1527, but his second son, Sir Thomas Percy, was executed 
in 1587 for his concern in Ask’s rebellion. Henry, sixth Earl, the 
first lover of Queen Anne Boleyn, died in 1587 issueless, and the 
honours were suspended for twenty years by the attainder of his 
brother, Sir Thomas Percy, in 1537, during which time the family 
had the mortification to see the dukedom of Northumberland 
conferred on John Dudley, Earl of Warwick. But this nobleman 
being attainted in 1553, the Earldom was restored to Thomas 
Percy, the son of the attainted Sir Thomas, who became the 
seventh Earl of Northumberland. He was eventually beheaded 
in August, 1572. His brother, Henry Percy, was allowed, in right 
of the new entail, to succeed as eighth Earl of Northumberland. 
In 1585 this Earl, still blind to his family interests, entered into the 
intrigues in favour of Mary Queen of Scots, and, being committed 
to the Tower, committed suicide 21st June.” 
To return to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, whose 
vaulting ambition, as is well known, over-leapt itself, and worked 
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