HENRY PERCY, the fon of Sir HENRY PERCY, "flayne at Shrewefbury, and of ELIZABETH, the "daughter of the Erle of Marche, after the death of "his Father and Grauntfyre, was exiled into Scot"land in the time of king Henry the Fourth: but "in the time of king Henry the Fifth, by the labour "of JOHANNE the countes of Weftmerland, (whose "Daughter ALLANOR he had wedded in coming into "England,) he recovered the King's grace, and the "countye of Northumberland, fo was the fecond Erle "of Northumberland.

"And of this Alianor his wife, he begate IX "Sonnes, and III Daughters, whofe names be JoHANNE, that is buried at Whytbye: THOMAS, lord "Egremont: KATHARYNE GRAY of Rythyn: Sir "RAFFE PERCY: WILLIAM PERCY, a Byshopp : "RICHARD PERCY: JOHN, that dyed WITHOUT "ISSUE: [another JOHN, called by Vincent † Jo,, hannes Percy fenior de Warkworth':] GEORGE "PERCY, Clerk: HENRY that dyed WITHOUT ISSUE: "ANNE "[befides the eldeft fon and fucceffor here omitted, because he comes in below, viz.]

" HENRY PERCY, the third Erle of Northumberland.

Vid. Harl. MSS. No 692. (26.) in the British Museum.

i. c. remained an Exile in Scotland during the Reign of king Henry IV. In Scotia exulavit tempore Henrici Regis quarti. Lat. MS. penes Duc. North.

See his Great Baronag. No. 20. in the Heralds Office.

POSTSCRIPT.

I formed, that from a word or two formerly legible T will perhaps gratify the curious Reader to be in,

over one of the Chapel Doors, it is believed that the Text there infcribed was that Latin verse of the Pfalmift, which is in our Translation,

MY TEARS HAVE BEEN MY MEAT
DAY AND NIGHT.

It is alfo certain, that the memory of the first Hermit was held in fuch regard and veneration by the PERCY Family; that they afterwards maintained a Chantry Prieft, to refide in the Hermitage, and celebrate Mafs in the Chapel: Whofe allowance, uncommonly liberal and munificent, was continued down to the Diffolution of the Monafteries; and then the whole Salary, toge ther with the Hermitage and all its dependencies, rever ted back to the Family, having never been endowed i mortmain. On this account we have no Record, whic fixes the date of the Foundation, or gives any particula account of the firft Hermit; but the following Inftrı ment will fhew the liberal Exhibition afforded to b Succeffors. It is the Patent granted to the laft Herm in 1532, and is copied from an ancient MS. book Grants, &c. of the VIth Earl of Northumberland, Henry the VIIIths time +.

SIR GEORGE LANCASTRE PATENT O: XX MERKS BY YERE.

" HENRY Erle of Northumberland, &c. KNO
youe
that I the said Erle, in confideration of the d
gent and thankfull fervice, that my wellbeloved Ch

*Pfal. xlii. 3. + Claffed, F. I. No. 1. p. 3 Duc. Northumb.

"len fir George Lancaftre hath don unto me the faid "Erle, and alfo for the goode and vertus difpofition that "I do perceive in him: And for that he fhall have in "his daily recommendation and praiers the good estate "of all fuche noble Blode and other Perfonages, as be "now levynge; And the Soules of fuch noble Blode "as be departed to the mercy of God owte of this pre"fent lyve, Whos Names are conteyned and wrettyn "in a Table upon perchment figned with thande of me "the faid Erle, and delivered to the cuftodie and keap"ynge of the said fir George Lancaftre: And further, that he fhall kepe and faye his devyn service in celebratyng and doynge Maffe of Requiem every weke "accordinge as it is written and let furth in the faide Table: HAVE geven and graunted, and by these "prefentes do gyve and graunte unto the faid fir

George, myn Armytage belded in a Rock of stone "within my Parke of WARKWORTH in the County of "Northumberland in the honour of the bleffed Try"nete, With a yerly Stipende of twenty Merks by "yer, from the feeft of feint Michell tharchaungell

jaft paft afore the date herof yerly duryng the natu"rall lyve of the faid fir George: AND alfo I the faid "Erle have geven and graunted, and by these Presents "do gyve and graunte unto the faid fir George Lan

caftre. the occupation of one litle Gresground of myn "called Cony-garth nygh adjoynynge the faid Harmy"tage, only to his only use and proufit wynter and fumer "durynge the faid terme; THE Garden and Orteyarde "belongyng the faid Armytage; THE Gate and "Pafture of Twelf Kye and a Bull, with their Calves

fuking; AND two Horfes goying and beyng within "my faid Parke of Warkworth wynter and fomer; "ONE Draught of Fiffhe every Sondaie in the yere to

*This would be equal to £.100 per annum now. See the Cronicon Pretiofum.

ti. e. Going from the verb, To Gae.

*

"be drawen forenenst the said Armytage, called The "Trynete Draught; AND Twenty Lods of Fyrewode "to be taken of my Wodds called Shilbotell Wode, duryng the faid term. The faid Stipend of xx Merks "by yer to be taken and perceived † yerly of the rent "and ferme of my Fiffhyng of Warkworth, by thands "of the Fermour or Fermours of the fame for the tyme beynge yerly at the times ther used and accustomed "by evyn Portions. In wytnes "whereof to thes my Letters "Patentes I the faid Erle "have fet the Seale of myn "Armes: YEVEN undre my

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Allowe in recompence herof yerly x" ‡. Richerd Ryche.

"Signet at my Caftell of Warkworth, the third daye. "of December, in the xxiiith Yer of the Reigne of "our Sovereyn Lord kyng Henry the eight."

On the Diffolution of the Monafteries, the above Patent was produced before the Court of Augmentation in Michaelmas-Term, 20 O&. A. 29. Hen. VIII. when the fame was allowed by the Chancellor and Counfel of the faid Court, and all the profits confirmed to the incumbent fir George Lancafter; Excepting that in compenfation for the annual Stipend of Twenty Marks, he was to receive a Stipend of Ten Marks, and to have a free Chapel called The Rood Chapel, and the Hospital of St. Leonard, within the Barony of Wigdon, in the County of Cumberland.

After the perufal of the above PATENT it will perhaps be needless to caution the Reader against a Miftake, fome have fallen into; of confounding this Hermitage NEAR Warkworth, with a Chantry founded wITHIN

*Or fore-anenft: i. e. oppofite. + Sic MS. + So the MS. The above Sir Richard Rych was Chancellor of the Augmentation at the Suppreffion of the Monaf teries.

the town itself, by Nicholas de Farnham, bishop of Durham, in the reign of Henry III. who appropria ted the Church of Brankefton for the maintenance there of Two Benedictine Monks from Durham *. That fmall monaftic foundation is indeed called a CELL by bishop Tanner +: but he must be very ignorant, who fuppofes that by the word CELL is neceffarily to be un derstood a Hermitage; whereas it was commonly ap plied to any fmall conventual eftablishment, which was dependant on another.

As for the Chapel belonging to this endowment of bifhop Farnham, it is mentioned as in ruins in feveral old Surveys of queen Elizabeth's time; and its fcite, not far from Warkworth Church, is ftill remembered. But that there was never more than ONE Prieft maintained, at one and the fame time, within the HERMITAGE, is plainly proved (if any further proof be wanting) by the following Extract from a Survey of Warkworth, made in the Year 1567, ‡ viz.

"Ther is in the Parke (fc. of Warkworth) alfo one "Howse hewyn within one Cragge, which is called "the Harmitage Chapel: In the fame ther haith bene

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one Preaft keaped which did fuch godlye services as "that tyme was used and celebrated. The Manfion "Howfe (fc. the small building adjoining to the Cragg) "ys nowe in decaye: The Clofes that apperteined to "the faid Chantrie ys occupied to his Lordship's ufe."

* Ang. Sacr. p. 738. Not. Mon. 396. By George Clarkfon, M8. penes Duc. North.

THE END.