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 ii8 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 57. but for the present Sir Henry Percy had made his peace, and the order for the execution was sent down. She did not care to provoke resistance by insisting that her cousin should see it obeyed. Sir John Foster carried the Earl by slow stages along the line of the rebellion to Raby and Durham, to his own house at TopclifF, and to York ; and there, on the 22nd of August, very simply, nobly, and quietly, he left the world by the hard road which his father had trodden before him.