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Rh they will but too obviously obtrude themselves on our remembrance, when we take a review of the several circumstances of the noble earl's most tragical end.

"Saro Fideli' Inggram Percy 1537."

The person who made the above inscription was third son of Henry the Vth earl of Northumberland. Collins, who seems to have known nothing of his ever having been a prisoner 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 of Northumberland. He never married, 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 shall have the use thereof, with the childe, untill she be of lawful age. He also bequethes to the moder of the said childe twenty nobles. This will, which is dated June 7, 1538, and the probat March 21 following, and which, besides the above, only contains legacies to his servants, plainly shews that he was never married, and left no legitimate issue: although Percy, the trunk-maker, in Temp. Car. II. pretended to derive his descent and claim to the earldom of Northumberland from this sir Ingram Percy, knight. His natural daughter, above mentioned, who was named Isabel, became wife of Henry Tempest of Broughton in Com. Ebor."

It seems highly probable that the above sir Ingram Percy was some way or other involved in Uske's rebellion, for which his brother sir Thomas Percy, knight, was executed at Tyburn in June 1537.

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