And thus the manuscript, through Percy's book had a direct line of influence on Lewis's works.

Percy's first appearance in The Railway Series was in book no.

: When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

The romance was broken off when Percy's father refused to support their engagement.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

That done, the King dispatched Percy's head to York, where it was impaled on one of the city's gates ; his four quarters were sent to London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, and Chester before they were finally delivered to his widow.

* Dylan and Baez singing Hank Williams songs in a hotel room, as well as Baez singing the first few verses of " Percy's Song " and " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word " ( which was still apparently unfinished at the time, as Baez later tells Dylan, " If you finish it I'll sing it on a record "; she would record it in 1968.

During this time, he wrote a number of screenplays, including The English Speaker, about Josef Breuer's analysis of Anna O .; adaptations of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose ; a script about Jerry Lee Lewis ; and a stage adaptation of Sansho the Bailiff that was to be directed by Andrzej Wajda, in addition to continuing work on the Q script.

According to one version of the legend, found in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry published in 1765, the beggar was said to be Henry, the son of Simon de Montfort, but Percy himself declared that this version was not genuine.

It was followed by a 1974 sequel, Percy's Progress.

Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry was his constant companion.

In compiling this work he realized that the folio manuscript of Percy's Reliques, from which most of these texts were drawn, was not available for public inspection, and he set about to remedy this situation.

When Kay's health began to suffer, he was replaced first by Mickey Roker and then by Albert " Tootie " Heath, Percy's brother.

George Percy's ' Discourse ' that was printed in the fourth volume of Purchas His Pilgrimes ( 1625 ) records Gosnold's death (... Captain Bartholomew Gosnold one of Councile, he was buryed thereupon having all the ordinance in the Fourt shote offwith manye vollyes of small shot ...) and then sayse "... Oure men were destroyed with cruel dyseases as swellings, fluxes, burning fevers, and by wars and some exyted souddenlye, but for the moste part they dyeth of mere famine ..."

His credits include the UK sex comedy Percy's Progress ( 1974 ), David Baker's The Great Macarthy ( 1975 ) and Bruce Beresford's Barry McKenzie Holds His Own ( 1974 ) in which Edna was made a Dame by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of collections of what was now beginning to be defined as " folk " music, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

Shown might be Miss Dorothy Pilcher, Percy's cousin who was towed in a flight.

Percy's severed head was subsequently put on display at London Bridge.

MS. 28959 ), and correspondence between Shenstone and Bishop Percy from 1757 to 1763 the last being of especial interest ; To Shenstone was due the original suggestion of Percy's Reliques, a service which would alone entitle him to a place among the precursors of the romantic movement in English literature.

Child's collection was not the first of its kind ; there had been many less scholarly collections of English and Scottish ballads, particularly from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ) onwards.

At the age of fifteen he first obtained a post in the household of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland ; then he entered the service of Lord Percy, the earl's brother, and was present with the royalist army at the Battle of Worcester as Lord Percy's deputy at the ordnance board.

Percy's daughter Mary was married to Nelson Rockefeller from 1930 to 1962, before he served as Vice President of the United States.

It was included in Thomas Percy's 1767 Reliques of Ancient Poetry.

( Malone's program was called Between the Bookends ); Percy's sign-off was, " I'll see you just outside the bookends.

On August 15, while staying at Pisa, Percy's wife Mary Shelley wrote a letter to Maria Gisborne in which she relayed Percy's claims to her that he had met his own doppelgänger.

Cromwell had previously confiscated Percy strongholds such as Wressle and Bunwell after Henry ' Hotspur ' Percy's death in 1403 ; the thought of those properties one day being handed over to the Neville family angered Lord Egremont greatly.

Percy's greatest contribution is considered to be his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ), the first of the great ballad collections, which was the one work most responsible for the ballad revival in English poetry that was a significant part of the Romantic movement.

The traditional story of the origin of the hermitage, attributing it to one of the Bertrams of Bothal Castle in this county, is told in Bishop Percy's ballad The Hermit of Warkworth ( 1771 ).

Despite Percy's force having an estimated three to one advantage over the Scots Froissart records 1040 English were captured and 1860 killed whereas 200 Scots were captured and 100 were killed.

They decided to capture Percy's Conwy castle ; by posing as a carpenter one of their small band was able to gain access to the castle, a variant on the trojan horse tactic, and let in his compatriots.

Charles Williams, an employee of Percy's on one of the largest cotton plantations in the Delta, set up camps on the levee protecting Greenville.

The principal source for the early passages of Percy's life there is the biography of Wolsey by George Cavendish.

According to George Percy's 1608 account, Wowinchapuncke indicated that he would grant the settlers " as much land as we would desire to take ," although later historians contend that it is highly dubious that he would have said any such thing.

The party almost ends in tragedy when Queenie ( who had been locked away when Blackadder mistook her for Percy's girlfriend ) threatens to have the whole party executed when Blackadder drunkenly accuses her of being Merlin, the Happy Pig.

Percy's a hard-working record executive who deals with musicians all day long — which is a piece of cake compared to what he deals with at home.

Percy's a great dad who always seems to find out about the trouble his four kids are getting into, even when he's on the road.

Percy's family was plagued with suicides, including his first cousin LeRoy Pratt Percy and possibly his wife Phinizy, who died in an auto accident.

Repp furthermore makes a link between Trollalay / Trolla-laa and the rhyme recorded in Percy's Relics Trolle on away, trolle on awaye.

The protagonist of Walker Percy's novels, Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome, is " Dr Thomas More ", a reluctant Catholic and descendant of More.

During the next few years Percy's reputation continued to grow.

King Henry, upon being brought Percy's body after the battle, is said to have wept.

Marguerite, for her part, became disillusioned with Percy's shallow, dandyish lifestyle.

At Calais, Percy openly approaches Chauvelin in a decrepit inn ( the Chat gris ), whose owner is in Percy's pay.

With Marguerite's love and courage amply proven, Percy's ardour is rekindled.

In England — besides the ballad given in Thomas Percy's Reliques and reprinted in Francis James Child's English and Scotch Ballads ( 1st ed., viii.

He is introduced to Slater as yet another brother of " Percy's " called Archie.

Although Henry's army is generally agreed to have been larger, John Capgrave writing in the Chronicle of England quotes Percy's army as 14000.

The next day the King's forces crossed the River Severn at Uffington, about a mile to the east of Shrewsbury endeavouring to cut Percy's line of retreat on Chester.

Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, Sir Richard Venables, Sir Richard Vernon and Sir Henry Boynton were publicly hanged, drawn and quartered in Shrewsbury on 23 July and their heads publicly displayed, Thomas Percy's on London Bridge.

* The Boy's Percy ( published posthumously in 1882 ), consisting of old ballads of war, adventure and love based on Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

He also wrote a treatise on Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

William de Percy's gift included land for the monastery, the town and port of Whitby and St Mary's Church and dependent chapels at Fyling, Hawsker, Sneaton, Ugglebarnby, Dunsley, and Aislaby, five mills including Ruswarp, Hackness with two mills and two churches.