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they will but too obvioufly obtrude themfelves on our remem- brance, when we take a review of the feveral circumftances of the noble earl's moil tragical end. " Saro Fideli Inggram Percy 1537." The perfbn who made the above infcription was third fon of Henry the Vth earl of Northumberland. Collins, who feems to have known nothing of his ever having been a prifoner in the Tower of London, tells us that "Sir Ingelram, or Ingram Percy, knight, was receiver of the revenue of the earl his brother in the northern parts of the county orNorthumberland. He never mar- ried, but died about the latter end of the year 1538, leaving only an illegitimate daughter, to whom in his will he " bequethes twenty pounds, the whiche twenty pounds he wills the lady his mother lhall have the ufe thereof, with the childe, untill me be of lawful age. He alfo bequethes to the moder of the faid childe twenty nobles. This will, which f is dated June 7, 1538, and the probat March 2, 1 following, and which, betides the above, only contains legacies to his fervants, plainly fhews that he was never married, and left no legitimate hTue : although Percy, the trunk - maker, in Temp. Car. II. pretended to derive his defcent and claim to the earldom of Northumberland from this fir Ingram Percy, knight. His natural daughter, above mentioned, who was named Ifabel, became 'wife of Henry Tempeft of Broughton in Com. Ebor." It feems highly probable that the above fir Ingram Percy was fome way or other involved in Uike's rebellion, for which his bro- ther fir Thomas Percy, knight, was executed at Tyburn in June 1537- R. D." Under the flip of an oak-tree with acorns, I fliould