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History of the Battle of Otterburn Fought in 1388
History of the Battle of Otterburn Fought in 1388 Author:Robert White General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: MEMOIRS OF ENGLISH WAMIOB8. Sir Faire branch of Honour, flower of Cheualrie. -- Spensee. f)T? all the men of valour who fought at the battle of Otterburn, none, either in literary or historical interest, approaches to Hotspur. Sprung on the maternal side from the Nevilles, and being the eldest son of Lord Percy, afterwards first Earl of Northumberland, the martial blood of both these noble families would in his own person seem to have reached the highest point of ascendency. His father, the fourth Lord of Alnwick, married, at hpr father's castle of Brancepeth, in July 1358, Margaret, aged only seventeen, daughter of Ralph Lord Neville of Raby, whence our hero was descended, being born about the year 1366. Shortly after the coronation of Richard II. he received the honour of knighthood, and in the following year, November 1378, when upwards of twelve years of age, he first spread his banner under command of his father, at the siege of Berwick. On this occasion, and at the subsequent conflict near From an article which appeared in the "Quarterly Review" for April 1836, on a very scarce work," TheScropeand Grosvenor Roll," edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, 1832, we learn that Sir Henry Percy, previous to the battle of Otterburn, was summoned to give evidence on that controversy. Part of his deposition was taken at Plymouth, in June 1386, when "he was of the age of twenty, first armed at the taking of Berwick." Collins, quoting " Collectanea, Thos. Butler, Arm.," says he was born. May 20th, 1364. The first authority is, we think, preferable. Prom the above roll we also learn that Chaucer the poet bore ar...« less