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manor house of Battersby, co. York, 7th Nov. 1515. He died 9th April, 1590; and, by his will, signed 17th Jan, 1589, he desires burial in the tombe of his ancestors, at Chillingham ; and gives to the Lady Ann Neville, his sister-in-law, two hundred marks, to be paid by Sir Henry Constable, "which he oweth me for my wife, by his father's gift ";-he leaves to his sister, Radcliff, his "tablett of golde," and states that his wife is neice to Lady Catherine Constable, who owes him five hundred marks. He appoints his wife an executrix, to whom he bequeaths the residue of his fortune, after the payment of various legacies.

Bishop Matthews gives an account of her arrest in a letter to to the Lord Treasurer, 27th May, 1598, (Strype, vol. 4, p. 343) and of her committal to the jailor's house, for the same crime which was attributed to her sister Margaret, namely-" receiving and relieving" seminary priests. The bishop affects to speak slightingly of her conduct, and retails much idle gossip on the subject. He asks "how she shall be dealt with, and used; whether detained in durance, or bailed upon good bonds, for her appearance, from time to time. 2. Whether she shall be touched only for recusancy, or charged with any other matter that may occur. 3. Whether anything amounting to felony, &c. shall arise against her, she shall be tryed thereof, at the next assizes here, or at Northumberland, as her sister, the Lady Margaret was, anno 1593; and, by her Majesty most graciously pardoned, in hope of the continuance of her pretended conformity; from the which I hear she is relapsed since. 4.Whether she shall be suffered to keep house of herself, with some of her own servants about her, and her friends sometime resorting to her, as she desireth earnestly, or live as her keeper shall provide for her, in a more private and close manner. Whether she shall be permitted to ride abroad and take the air, or continue within her lodging. 6.-Such other particulars as your Lordship, in your wisdom, shall think fit to impart to me." She died without issue.

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Anne, married David, younger brother of Sir William Ingleby, of Ripley, knight; and she also comes under the bishop's

designation of "obstinacy," or, otherwise, constancy in the religion of her father; and, according to Dugdale, (Visitation of Yorkshire, 1665, 14 Aug.) she left an only daughter and heir, Mary, married to Sir Peter Middleton, of Stokeld, in co. York, knight.

In the enquiry and survey of Brancepath, in 1614, it is stated that she held a lease from the Queen, of the herbage of the East Park, at a yearly rent of £40.

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THOMAS PERCY, seventh Earl, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percy, next brother to the sixth Earl. His father was attainted for his share in Aske's rebellion. He was restored in blood, and to the earldom, by Queen Mary, in 1557, with remainder, in default of male issue, to his brother Henry.

He was appointed, by Mary, jointly with Lord Wharton, warden of the east March. In the first year of Queen Elizabeth he had the charge of the east and middle Marches; and his name occurs prominently in the border transactions of the time and although the Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1557, (Lodge,

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