the connection with Rome would ensure it the favourable consideration of the new queen; and soon (in 1557) the elder of the two brothers so confirmed her regard by putting down a rebellion at Scarborough, that she restored to him those of his family possessions which had lately been held by Dudley, and created anew the Earldom of Northumberland and the Barony of Percy, with other titles, with limitations in tail male to himself, and similar limitations in remainder to his brother Henry, after they had passed from their family for an interval of twenty years. This brother Henry afterwards married one of the daughters of Lady Latimer, whose tomb was in the old Hackney Church.

APPENDIX.

Lamente of Henry Percye.

(A modern imitation of an old style of ballad writing.) WHAT joy can fayre earth offer nowe to me?

Ah, none! I wepe that ever I was born, No more delight I in swete minstrelsy,

Or trumpet's clang, or sound of hunting horn. What boots gyf happiness he cannot bryng,

Phoebus his bryght rays sheds on Alnwick towers, Where birds in wodes bedeckt with leafis syng,

Chauntyng melodiousle in yon green bowers.
One birde there was, a faulcon,* fine to view;

Why hyndered fate that I myght be her fere,
Whose harte to mine and mine to hers beat trew.
But she is flowne-and I'm distraught wi' care.
What's lyfe to me, Northumberland's proud pere?
Lyfe without love is erth without a sunn.
Why dyd the fates then evr place me here,

Why was I domed life's cheerless course to run?
Pale is the crescent of my hope, and ffled

Is all my thought of happiness e'er more,

Soon be my days as summer shaddows sped,

And soon my breaste as cold as Laplande shore. But thee, fond mayd, to starry hyght upborne,

Whose name my lips to 'plaine of scarce may move; Thee, lyke Philomela, wyll I ever mourn,

Anna! my fyrste, my laste, and onlye love.

* The family device of the Boleyns.

F. R. SURTEES.

The Quire Books.

From the Earl of Northumberland, addressed to his 'beloved Cosyn Thomas Arundel, one of the gentlemen of my lord Legate's prevy chambre.' It was written soon after the death of the earl's father in 1527.

'BEDFELLOW, after my most harte recommendacion: Thys Monday, the iijd. of August, I resevyd by my servaunt Letters from yow berying datt the xxth. day off July, deliveryd unto hym the sayme day at the Kyng's town of Newcastell; wher in I do perseayff my lord Cardenall's pleasour ys to have such boks as was in the Chapell of my lat lord and ffayther (wos soll Ihu pardon). To the accomplyshment of which, at your desyer, I am confformable, notwithstanding I trust to be able ons to set up a chapel off myne owne. But I pray God he may look better upon me than he doth. But me thynk I have lost very moch, ponderyng yt ys no better regardyd; the occasion wher off he shall persayff.

'Fyrst the long lyeng* of my tressorer with hys very hasty and unkynd words unto hym, not on my parte deserved. Also the news off Mr. Manying, the which ys blon abroud over all Yorksher; that neyther by the Kyng, nor by my lord cardenall am I regardyd; and that he wyll tell me at my metyng with hym, when I come unto Yorksher; which shall be within thys month, God wylling: but I ffer my words to Mr. Manyng shall displeas my lord; for I will be no ward.

'Also, bedfellow, the payns I tayk and have taykyn sens my comyng hether, are not better regardyd; but by a fflattering Byshope of Carel and that fals worm shall be broth to the missery and carffulness that I am in; and in such slanders, that now and my lord cardenal wold, he cannot bryng me howth thereof.

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I shall with all sped send up your lettrs with the books unto my lord's grace, as to say iiij. Anteffonars (Antiphonars), such as I thynk were not seen a gret wyll: v. gralls; an Ordeorly, a Manuall; viith. Proffessioners (Professionaries), and for all the ressidew, they are not

* Continuance with the Cardinal.

worth the sending, nor ever was occupyd in my lord's chapel. And also I shall wryt at thys time as ye have wylled me.

'Yff my lord's grace wyll be so good Lord unto me as to gyf me lychens to put Wyllm. Worme withyn a Castell of myn off Anwyk in assurty, unto the tyme he have accomptyd ffor more money recd, than ever I recd., I shall gyf hys grace II C. and a benefiss off a C. worth unto hys college, with such other thyngs resserved as his (grace) shall desyre; but unto such tyme as myne Awdytors hayth takyn accompt off him wher in, good bedfellow, do your best, ffor els he shall put us to send myselff, as at our metyng I shall show you.

'And also gyff secuer credens unto this berer, whom I assur you I have ffonddon a marvellous honest man, as ever I ffownd in my lyff. 'In hast at my monestary of Hulpark, the iiid. day of August. In the owne hand off,

'To my bedfellow Arundel.'

'Yours ever assured,

'H. NORTHUMBERLAND.'

(There is a tradition at Alnwick that an auditor was formerly confined in the dungeon under one of the towers till he could make up his accounts to his lord's satisfaction.)

The house of Northumberland had anciently three minstrels attending on them in their castles in Yorkshire, and in the time of Percy (the essayist) retained three in their service in Northumberland, who wore the badge of the family (a silver crescent) on the right arm.

Choral or Antiphonal singing was introduced into the service of the Church about the middle of the fourth century (some say by Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, in the second century). Ambrosius, Bishop of Milan, is said to have introduced it into the Western Church. Many of the Psalms of David show that Antiphonal singing was then in use. The choir is divided into two parties, each responding to the other.

Fountains Abbey.

As the Percy family were considered as hereditary benefactors and patrons of this foundation (several of the family were buried there), so the monks occasionally applied to the Earls of Northumberland for their protection and assistance under any emergency; as appears from a very curious letter on the subject of a complaint made by the monks against their abbot in the reign of Henry VIII. It was written by the sixth earl and addressed to Thomas Arundel, Esq., one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber to the Lord Legate Wolsey.

'MYNE entirely wel biloved and assured frend, in right harty maner I signifye unto you that ther is credable informacion maid unto me upon the sute and behalf of the covent and bretherne of the monestary of Fountaince, in the county of Yorke, that the Abbot there doith not indevoure hymselfe lyke a discrete father towards the said covent and the profet of the hous, but haith against the same as well solde and wastyd the great parte or all theyre store in Cataill, as alsoo theyre wooddis in dyverse contries, beying in lyke manner, as I am informed, in his owne conversation after such sorte as the quyet of the said hous, which should depende anenst theyme, is moch tedews and uncharitable (whereby the service of Godd should not be maynteyned like to the ancient custome there). And for that mine ancestors and I are benefactours to the said monestary, the informacion was more inforced to be maid unto me at this my beying here, to the intent upon the premises I might cause advertisement to be maid unto my singler good lord legate, that his grace wd. ponder the premisses by his power and auctorite of comission to some discrete fathers in that countreye of religious howses, thereby to authoryse theyme that if mater of depryvacion may be founde, to have the same in execution, with a free eleccion to be graunted by his grace to the said covent before the said religious persons commissioners.

'And the said covent havyng especiall respect to the great comoditie and profet that may insewe upon the same, and the better mayntein