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ALGERNON PERCY, tenth Earl of Northumberland (1602-1668), son of Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland, 
was born in London, and baptised 13 Oct. 1602.1 Percy was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, as family papers prove, and not 
at Christ Church, Oxford, as stated by Collins and Doyle.2 His father then sent him to travel abroad, providing him with detailed 
instructions what to observe and how to behave.3 On 4 Nov. 1616 he was created a knight of the Bath.4 In the Parliament 
of 1624 he represented the county of Sussex, and in those called in 1625 and 1626 the city of Chichester. He was summoned to the House of Lords 
as Baron Percy on 28 March 1627, and succeeded his father as tenth Earl of Northumberland on 5 Nov. 1632.
 Charles I was anxious to secure the support of Northumberland, and conferred upon him, on 16 May 1635, the order 
of the Garter.5 For the next few years he was continually trusted with the highest naval or military posts. On 23 March 1636 he was 
appointed admiral of the fleet raised by means of ship-money in order to assert the sovereignty of the seas. It effected nothing beyond obliging 
a certain number of Dutch fishermen to accept licenses to fish from Northumberland's master. But its ineffectiveness was due rather to the policy 
of Charles than to his admiral's fault.6 Northumberland was full of zeal for the king's service, and presented to him in December 1636 
a statement of the abuses existing in the management of the navy, with proposals for their reform; but, though supported by ample proof of the 
evils alleged, the commissioners of the admiralty took no steps to remedy them. 'This proceeding,' wrote Northumberland to Strafford, 
'hath brought me to a resolution not to trouble myself any more with endeavouring a reformation, unless I be commanded to it.'7 Strafford, 
who had supported Northumberland with all his might, urged him to be patient and constant in his endeavours, and pressed, through Laud, 
for his appointment as one of the commissioners of the admiralty, or as lord high admiral.8
 
 In April 1637 Northumberland was a second time appointed admiral, but again found himself able to achieve nothing. His disgust was very great. 
He wrote to Strafford from his anchorage in the Downs complaining bitterly. 'To ride in this place at anchor a whole summer together without hope 
of action, to see daily disorders in the fleet and not to have means to remedy them, and to be in an employment where a man can neither do service 
to the state, gain honour to himself, nor do courtesies for his friends, is a condition that I think nobody will be ambitious of.9 On 30 
March 1638 Northumberland was raised to the dignity of lord high admiral of England, which was granted him, however, only during pleasure, and not, 
as in the cases of Nottingham and Buckingham, for life.10 It was intended that he should retain his post until the 
Duke of York was of age to succeed him.11
 
 The troubles in Scotland brought Northumberland military office also. In July 1638 the king appointed a committee of eight privy councillors for 
Scottish affairs, of which Northumberland was one. The consideration of the discontent of the people and of the king's unpreparedness for war made 
him think it safer for the king to grant the Scots the conditions they asked than rashly to enter into a war. 'God send us a good end of this 
troublesome business,' he wrote to Strafford,' for, to my apprehension, no foreign enemies could threaten so much danger to this kingdom as doth 
now this beggarly nation.'12 On 26 March 1639, when the king prepared to proceed to the north to take command of the army, Northumberland 
was appointed general of all the forces south of the Trent and a member of the council of regency.13 His private letters to his brother-in-law, 
the Earl of Leicester, show that Northumberland was dissatisfied with the king's policy, and had no confidence in 
most of his fellow-ministers. Secretary Coke he held incapable, and endeavoured to get his place for Leicester. Secretary Windebanke he regarded not 
only as incapable, but as treacherous, and was enraged by his interference with the command of the fleet, which allowed Tromp to destroy Oquendo's 
ships in an English harbour.
 
 Northumberland's own views inclined him to an alliance with France rather than Spain, and he was opposed to Hamilton, Cottington, and the Spanish 
faction in the council. Strafford was his friend, but he thought him too much inclined to Spain, and Laud's 
religious policy he disliked. The discontent which existed in England and the emptiness of the king's treasury seemed to him to render the success of 
the war against the Scots almost impossible14 For these reasons Northumberland hailed with joy the summoning of the Short Parliament, and 
regretted the vehemence with which the Commons pressed for the redress of their grievances. 'Had they been well advised,' he wrote to Lord Conway, 
'I am persuaded they might in time have gained their desires.'15 Backed only by Lord Holland, he opposed the dissolution of the parliament 
in the committee of eight, and spoke against Strafford's proposal for a vigorous invasion of Scotland. Vane's notes of his speech are: 'If no more 
money than proposed, how then to make an offensive war? a difficulty whether to do nothing or to let them alone, or go on with a vigorous war.'16 
'What will the world judge of us abroad,'he complained to Leicester, ' to see us enter into such an action as this is, not knowing how to maintain it 
for one month? It grieves my soul to be involved in these counsels, and the sense I have of the miseries that are like to ensue is held by some a 
disaffection in me. . . . The condition that the king is in is extremely unhappy; I could not believe that wise men would ever have brought us into 
such a strait as now we are in without being certain of a remedy.'17
 
 As early as the previous December Charles had announced to Northumberland that he meant to make him general of the forces raised for the second Scottish 
war.18 According to Clarendon, Strafford was originally designed for the post, but he chose rather to serve as lieutenant-general under the 
Earl of Northumberland, believing that the conferring of that precedence upon him would more firmly fasten him to the king's interest, and that his power 
in the northern parts would bring great advantage to the king's services.19 His commission is dated 14 Feb. 1640.20 Northumberland, 
in spite of his doubts and despondency, vigorously exerted himself to organise the army, and contributed £5,00021 to the loan raised for 
the king's service in 1639.22 But in August 1640 he fell ill, and Strafford took command of the army in his place.23
 
 In the Long Parliament Northumberland gradually drew to the side of the opposition. He was one of the witnesses against 
Strafford on the twenty-third article of the impeachment; and, though denying that Strafford had intended to use the Irish 
army against England, his evidence to the lord deputy's recommendation of arbitrary measures was extremely damaging. The king, 
wrote Northumberland to Leicester, was angry with him because he would not perjure himself for Strafford.24
 
 
  Northumberland himself was vexed because the king declined to promote Leicester.25 Clarendon represents Northumberland sending to the House of 
Commons Henry Percy's letter about the army plot as the first visible sign of his defection.26 It was followed in the second session by an open 
alliance with the opposition party in the House of Lords. Northumberland signed the protests against the appointment of Lunsford to the command of the Tower, 
against the refusal of the House of Lords to join the commons in demanding the militia, and against their similar refusal to punish the Duke of Richmond's 
dangerous words. The popular party showed their confidence in Northumberland by nominating him Lord Lieutenant of the four counties of Sussex, Northumberland, 
Pembroke, and Anglesey (28 Feb. 1642). His possession of the post of Lord High Admiral secured the parliamentary lenders the control of the navy. When the 
king refused to appoint the Earl of Warwick to command the fleet, the two houses ordered Northumberland to make him Vice-Admiral, and Northumberland obeyed. 
On 28 June 1642 the king dismissed Northumberland from his office, but too late to prevent the sailors from accepting Warwick as their commander.27 
 Charles felt Northumberland's defection very severely. He had raised him to office after office, and, as he complained, 'courted him as his mistress, and 
conversed with him as his friend, without the least interruption or intermission of all possible favour and kindness.'28 In three letters to Sir 
John Bankes, Northumberland explained his position. 'We believe that those persons who are most powerful with the king do endeavour to bring parliaments to 
such a condition that they shall only be made instruments to execute the commands of the king, who were established for his greatest and most supreme council 
. . . . It is far from our thoughts to change the form of government, to invade upon the king's just prerogative, or to leave him unprovided of as plentiful 
a revenue as either he or any of his predecessors ever enjoyed.' He protested that the armaments of the parliament were purely defensive in their aim. 'Let 
us but have our laws, liberties, and privileges secured unto us, and let him perish that seeks to deprive the king of any part of his prerogative, or that 
authority which is due unto him. If our fortunes be to fall into troubles, I am sure few (excepting the king himself) will suffer more than I shall do: 
therefore for my own private considerations, as well as for the public good, no man shall more earnestly endeavour an agreement between the king and his 
people.'29
 
 True to these professions, Northumberland, though he accepted a place in the parliamentary committee of safety (4 July 1642), was throughout counted among 
the heads of the peace party.30 On 10 Nov. 1642 he was sent to present a message of peace to the king at Colebrook, and in the following March 
he was at the head of the parliamentary commissioners sent to treat with the king at Oxford. Whitelocke praises his 'sober and stout carriage to the king,' 
his civility to his brother commissioners, and the 'state and nobleness' with which he lived while at Oxford.31 His zeal for peace made him 
suspected by the violent party. Harry Marten took upon himself to open one of Northumberland's letters to his wife, and, as he refused to apologise, 
Northumberland struck him with his cane. This took place on 18 April 1643 in the Painted Chamber, as Marten was returning from a conference between the two 
Houses, and was complained of by the Commons as a breach of privilege.32 In June Northumberland was accused of complicity in Waller's plot, but 
indignantly repudiated the charge, and Waller's statements against him are too vague to be credited33 He was one of the originators of the peace 
propositions agreed to by the House of Lords on 4 Aug. 1643, and appealed to Essex for support against the mob violence which 
procured their rejection by the Commons.34 Finding Essex disinclined to support the peace movement, Northumberland retired to Petworth, and for 
a time absented himself altogether from the parliamentary councils. Clarendon, who held that the king might have won back Northumberland by returning him 
to his office of Lord Admiral, asserts that if the other peers who deserted the Parliament at the same time had been well received by the king, Northumberland 
would have followed their example.35
 
 A few months later Northumberland returned to his place in Parliament, and the two Houses showed their confidence by appointing him one of the committee of 
both kingdoms (16 Feb. 1644). In the treaty at Uxbridge in January 1645 Northumberland again acted as one of the parliamentary commissioners, and was their 
usual spokesman.36 But he was hardly as ready to make concessions as before. 'The repulse he had formerly received at Oxford upon his addresses 
thither, and the fair escape he had made afterwards from the jealousy of the parliament, had wrought so far upon him that he resolved no more to depend upon 
the one or provoke the other, and was willing to see the king's power and authority so much restrained that he might not be able to do him any harm.'37 
During 1645 he acted with the leaders of the independents, helping to secure the passage of the self-denying ordinance, and the organisation of the new model 
army.38 On 18 March he was appointed to the guardianship of the king's two youngest children, with a salary of £3,00039 a year; 
and it was even reported that if the king continued to refuse to come to terms, the Duke of Gloucester would be made king, with Northumberland as Lord Protector.40 
After the fall of Oxford the Duke of York also passed into his custody, with an allowance of £7,50041 for his maintenance.
 
 With the close of the war Northumberland again took up the part of mediator. His own losses during its continuance had amounted to over £42,000,42 
towards which, on 19 Jan. 1647, parliament had voted him £10,000.43 In January 1647 he united with Manchester 
and the leading presbyterian peers in drawing up propositions likely to be more acceptable to the king than those previously offered him. They were forwarded 
through Bellievre, the French ambassador, who transmitted them to Henrietta Maria.44 On 26 Nov. 1646 Northumberland 
had been accused of secretly sending money to the king during the war, and the charge had been investigated at the desire of the Commons by a committee of the 
House of Lords; but the informer himself finally admitted that the charge was false.45 That it should have been made at all was probably the effect 
of his obvious preference for a compromise with Charles.
 
 Northumberland was one of the peers who left their seats in Parliament after the riots of July 1647, and signed the engagement of 4 Aug. to stand by the army 
for the restoration of the freedom of the two Houses.46 It was at Northumberland's house, Syon, near Brentford, that the conferences of the seceders 
and the officers of the army were held and an agreement arrived at.47
 
 When the king was in the hands of the army, and during his residence at Hampton Court, he was allowed to see his children with more frequency than before, 
Parliament, however, stipulating that Northumberland should accompany his charges. In one of these interviews it is said that Charles gently reproached 
Northumberland for his defection, and hinted that, if he would return to his allegiance, the Duke of York should be married to one of his daughters. But 
Northumberland remained firm against any temptations: while his opposition to the vote of no address proved that fear was equally unable to make him swerve 
from the policy of moderation and compromise.48 On 21 April 1648 the Duke of York escaped from Northumberland's custody, and made his way in 
disguise to Holland. But as early as 19 Feb. Northumberland had asked to be relieved of his charge, and declined to be responsible if he should escape; so 
the two Houses, on hearing the Earl's explanation, acquitted him of all blame in the matter.49 In the following September Northumberland was 
appointed one of the fifteen commissioners sent to negotiate with Charles at Newport, and appears from his subsequent conduct to have regarded the king's 
concessions as a sufficient basis for the settlement of the nation. In the House of Lords he headed the opposition to the ordinance for the king's trial. 
'Not one in twenty of the people of England,' he declared, 'are yet satisfied whether the king did levy war against the houses first, or the houses first 
against him: and, besides, if the king did levy war first, we have no law extant that can be produced to make it treason in him to do; and for us to declare 
treason by an ordinance when the matter of fact is not yet proved, nor any law to bring to judge it by, seems to me very unreasonable.'50
 
 Under the Commonwealth and protectorate Northumberland remained rigidly aloof from public affairs. He consented, however, to take the engagement to be 
faithful to the Commonwealth.51 At his own request Parliament relieved him of the expensive and troublesome charge of Prince Henry and the 
Princess Elizabeth, appointing, at his own suggestion, his sister, the Countess of Leicester, to fill his place.52 He took no part in any plots 
against the government. An attempt to make him out to be a delinquent failed; but the demand that Wressell Castle should be made untenable, and the 
consequences of a loan raised by the parliament, for which he had become engaged, gave him some vexation.53 He refused to sit either in 
Cromwell's House of Lords or in that summoned by his son [Richard Cromwell] in 1659. 
To Richard's invitation he is said to have replied that, ' till the government was such as his predecessors have served under, he could not in honour do 
it; but, that granted, he should see his willingness to serve him with his life and fortune.'54
 
 He looked forward to the restoration of the House of Lords as a necessary part of the settlement of the nation, but deprecated any premature attempt on 
the part of the lords themselves to reclaim their rights. On 5 March 1660 he wrote to the Earl of Manchester, referring to 
the recent attempt made by some of the lords to persuade Monck to allow them to sit, and urging its unseasonableness.55 
An unconditional restoration he did not desire, and was one of the heads of the little cabal which proposed that merely those peers who had sat in 1648 
should be permitted to take their places in the Upper House, and that these should impose on Charles II the conditions offered 
to his father at the Newport treaty.56 In the Convention Parliament which met in April 1660 he supported a general act of indemnity, and was 
heard to say that, 'though he had no part in the death of the king, he was against questioning those who had been concerned in that affair; that the 
example might be more useful to posterity and profitable to future kings, by deterring them from the like exorbitances.'57
 
 Though the policy which Northumberland had pursued must have been extremely distasteful both to the king and to his ministers, he was sworn in as a privy 
councillor immediately after the king's return (31 May 1660)58 He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Sussex (11 Aug. 1660) and joint Lord Lieutenant 
of Northumberland (7 Sept. 1660), and acted as Lord High Constable at the coronation of Charles II (18-23 April 1661). But he 
exercised no influence over the policy of the king, and took henceforth no part in public affairs. He died on 13 Oct. 1668, in the sixty-sixth year of his 
age, and was buried at Petworth.
 
 Clarendon terms Northumberland 'the proudest man alive,' and adds that 'if he had thought the king as much above him as he thought himself above other 
considerable men, he would have been a good subject.' 'He was in all his deportment a very great man,' and throughout his political career he behaved with 
a dignity and independence more characteristic of a feudal potentate than a seventeenth-century nobleman. Without possessing great abilities, he enjoyed 
as much reputation and influence as if he had done so. 'Though his notions were not large or deep, yet his temper and reservedness in discourse, and his 
unrashness in speaking, got him the reputation of an able and a wise man; which he made evident in his excellent government of his family, where no man 
was more absolutely obeyed; and no man had ever fewer idle words to answer for; and in debates of importance he always expressed himself very pertinently.'59 
At the commencement of the Civil war he had 'the most esteemed and unblemished reputation, in court and country, of any person of his rank throughout the 
kingdom.' At the close of the struggle he preserved it almost unimpaired. 'In spite of all the partial disadvantages which were brought upon him by living 
in such a divided age, yet there was no man perhaps of any party but believed, honoured, and would have trusted him. Neither was this due to any chance of 
his birth, but, as all lasting reputation is, to those qualities which ran through the frame of his mind and the course of his life.'60
 
 
  
 
Northumberland married twice: first, in January 1629, Lady Anne Cecil, eldest daughter of William, second earl of Salisbury. This match was strongly 
disapproved by the bridegroom's father, who attributed his wrongs to the jealousy 
of the first Earl of Salisbury, and declared that the blood of Percy would not mix with the 
blood of Cecil if you poured it in a dish.'61 She died on 6 Dec. 1637, and was buried at Petworth.62 By her Northumberland had issue 
five daughters, three of whom—Catharine, Dorothy, and Lucy—died in childhood: Lady Anne Percy, born on 12 Aug. 1633, married, on 21 June 1652, 
Philip, Lord Stanhope, and died on 29 Nov. 1654; Lady Elizabeth Percy, born on 1 Dec. 1636, married, on 19 May 1653, Arthur, Lord Capel (created Earl of 
Essex in 1661), and died on 5 Feb. 1718.63
 Northumberland's second wife was Lady Elizabeth Howard, second daughter of Theophilus, second Earl of Suffolk. The marriage took place on 1 Oct. 1642. She 
died on 11 March 1705. By this marriage the great house built by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, came into Northumberland's possession, and was henceforth 
known as Northumberland House. It was demolished in 1874 to make room for Northumberland Avenue.64 By his second countess Earl Algernon had issue: 
(1) Josceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, born on 4 July 1644, married, on 23 Dec. 1662, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, [4th] Earl 
of Southampton, and died on 21 May 1670, leaving a son, Henry Percy, who died on 18 Dec. 1669, and a daughter, Elizabeth Percy, born on 26 Jan. 1667, afterwards 
Duchess of Somerset; (2) Lady Mary Percy, born on 22 July 1647, died on 3 July 1652.
 
 
 
 1.  Chamberlain, Letters during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, p. 157; Collins, Peerage, ed. Brydges, ii. 346.
 2.  Fonblanque, House of Percy, ii. 367.
 3.  Antiquarian Repertory, iv. 374.
 4.  Doyle, Official Baronage, ii. 663.
 5.  Strafford Letters, i. 363, 427; Fonblanque, ii. 630.
 6.  Gardiner, History of England, viii. 156; Strafford Letters, i. 524; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1635-6, pp. xx, 357.
 7.  Strafford Letters, ii. 40, 49; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1636-7, pp. 202, 217, 251; Fonblanque, ii. 379.
 8.  Strafford Letters, ii. 54.
 9.  ib. ii. 84; Gardiner, viii. 219; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1637, pp. xxi-xxv.
 10.  ib. 1637-8, p. 321; Collins, ii. 247.
 11.  Strafford Letters, ii. 154; Gardiner, viii. 338.
 12.  ib. ii. 186, 266.
 13.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1638-9, p. 608.
 14.  Collins, Sydney Papers, ii. 608-23; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1639-40, pp. 22, 526; Strafford Letters, ii. 276.
 15.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1640, pp. 71, 115; Sydney Papers, ii. 623.
 16.  Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 3 ; Gardiner, History of England, ix. 122.
 17.  Collins, Sydney Papers, ii. 652, 654.
 18.  ib. ii. 626.
 19.  Rebellion, ed. Macray, ii. 80 n.
 20.  Rushworth, iii. 989.
 21. £5,000 in 1639 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £659,000 in 2010.
 Source: Measuring Worth.
 22.  Sydney Papers, ii. 629; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1640, pp. 294, 363, 514, 572.
 23.  ib. pp. 588, 603.
 24.  Rushworth, Trial of Strafford, pp. 533, 543; Sydney Papers, ii. 665.
 25.  ib. ii. 661-6.
 26.  Rebellion, iii. 228; Commons' Journals, ii. 172-5.
 27.  Clarendon, Rebellion, iv. 330, v. 376; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 85; Gardiner, History of England, x. 176, 185, 208.
 28.  Clarendon, Rebellion, iii. 228; Memoirs of Sir Philip Warwick, p. 117.
 29. Bankes, Story of Corfe Castle, pp. 122, 129, 139.
 30.  Gardiner, Great Civil War, i. 53, 80.
 31.  Memorials, edit. 1853, i. 195-201; Old Parliamentary History, xii. 29, 201.
 32.  Lords' Journals, vi. 11; Clarendon, Rebellion, vii. 20.
 33.  Sanford, Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion, pp. 543, 562.
 34.  ib. p. 576; Gardiner, Great Civil War, i. 185; Clarendon, Rebellion, vii. 166-75.
 35.  Rebellion, vii. 21, 188, 244, 248.
 36.  Whitelocke, i. 377, 385 ; Clarendon, Rebellion, viii. 218.
 37.  ib. viii. 244.
 38.  Gardiner, Great Civil War, ii. 189; Sanford, Studies and Illustrations, p. 353.
 39. £3,000 in 1645 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £397,000 in 2010.
 Source: Measuring Worth.
 40.  ib.; Lords' Journals, vii. 279, 327.
 41. £7,500 in 1645 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £992,000 in 2010.
 Source: Measuring Worth.
 42. £42,000 in 1647 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £4,660,000 in 2010.
 Source: Measuring Worth.
 43. £10,000 in 1647 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £1,110,000 in 2010.
 Source: Measuring Worth; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 86; Commons' Journals, viii. 651.
 44.  Gardiner, Great Civil War, iii. 213.
 45.  Lords' Journals, viii. 578, 678.
 46.  Lords' Journals, ix. 385.
 47.  Waller, Vindication, p. 191.
 48.  Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, vi. 360; Gardiner, Great Civil War, iv. 52.
 49.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1648-9, p. 19; Lords' Journals, x. 220; Life of James II, i. 29-33.
 50. Gardiner, Great Civil War, iv. 289.
 51.  Sanford, Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion, p. 292.
 52.  Cary, Memorials of the Civil War, ii. 127, 138; Commons' Journals, vi. 216.
 53.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649-50, p. 286; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. pp. 87-8.
 54.  Clarendon State Papers, ii. 432.
 55.  Manchester, Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne, i. 395.
 56.  Collins, Sydney Papers, ii. 685; Clarendon State Papers, iii.729.
 57.  Ludlow, Memoirs, 267, ed. 1894.
 58.  Blencowe, Sydney Papers, p. 158.
 59.  Rebellion, vi. 398, viii. 244.
 60.  Sir William Temple to Josceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, 26 Dec. 1668; Fonblanque, ii. 475.
 61.  Fonblanque, ii. 370.
 62.  Strafford Letters, ii. 142.
 63.  ib. i. 76, 116, 469; Collins, ii. 353; Fonblanque, ii. 388, 407.
 64.  Wheatley, London Past and Present, ii. 603.
 
 
 
 
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 De Fonblanque, E. Barrington. Annals of the House of Percy.
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 Lomas, Richard. A Power in the Land: The Percys.
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 The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, 1461
 The 2nd Battle of St. Albans, 1461
 The Battle of Towton, 1461
 The Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 1464
 The Battle of Hexham, 1464
 The Battle of Edgecote, 1469
 The Battle of Losecoat Field, 1470
 The Battle of Barnet, 1471
 The Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471
 The Treaty of Pecquigny, 1475
 The Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485
 The Battle of Stoke Field, 1487
 
 Henry VI
 Margaret of Anjou
 Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
 Edward IV
 Elizabeth Woodville
 Richard Woodville, 1. Earl Rivers
 Anthony Woodville, 2. Earl Rivers
 Jane Shore
 Edward V
 Richard III
 George, Duke of Clarence
 
 Ralph Neville, 2. Earl of Westmorland
 Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury
 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
 Edward Neville, Baron Bergavenny
 William Neville, Lord Fauconberg
 Robert Neville, Bishop of Salisbury
 John Neville, Marquis of Montagu
 George Neville, Archbishop of York
 John Beaufort, 1. Duke Somerset
 Edmund Beaufort, 2. Duke Somerset
 Henry Beaufort, 3. Duke of Somerset
 Edmund Beaufort, 4. Duke Somerset
 Margaret Beaufort
 Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond
 Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke
 Humphrey Stafford, D. Buckingham
 Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
 Humphrey Stafford, E. of Devon
 Thomas, Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby
 Sir William Stanley
 Archbishop Thomas Bourchier
 Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex
 John Mowbray, 3. Duke of Norfolk
 John Mowbray, 4. Duke of Norfolk
 John Howard, Duke of Norfolk
 Henry Percy, 2. E. Northumberland
 Henry Percy, 3. E. Northumberland
 Henry Percy, 4. E. Northumberland
 William, Lord Hastings
 Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter
 William Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel
 William Herbert, 1. Earl of Pembroke
 John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
 John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
 Thomas de Clifford, 8. Baron Clifford
 John de Clifford, 9. Baron Clifford
 John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
 Thomas Grey, 1. Marquis Dorset
 Sir Andrew Trollop
 Archbishop John Morton
 Edward Plantagenet, E. of Warwick
 John Talbot, 2. E. Shrewsbury
 John Talbot, 3. E. Shrewsbury
 John de la Pole, 2. Duke of Suffolk
 John de la Pole, E. of Lincoln
 Edmund de la Pole, E. of Suffolk
 Richard de la Pole
 John Sutton, Baron Dudley
 James Butler, 5. Earl of Ormonde
 Sir James Tyrell
 Edmund Grey, first Earl of Kent
 George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent
 John, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton
 James Touchet, 7th Baron Audley
 Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy
 Robert Hungerford, Lord Moleyns
 Thomas, Lord Scales
 John, Lord Lovel and Holand
 Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell
 Sir Richard Ratcliffe
 William Catesby
 Ralph, 4th Lord Cromwell
 Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450
 
 
 Tudor Period
 
 King Henry VII
 Queen Elizabeth of York
 Arthur, Prince of Wales
 Lambert Simnel
 Perkin Warbeck
 The Battle of Blackheath, 1497
 
 King Ferdinand II of Aragon
 Queen Isabella of Castile
 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 King Henry VIII
 Queen Catherine of Aragon
 Queen Anne Boleyn
 Queen Jane Seymour
 Queen Anne of Cleves
 Queen Catherine Howard
 Queen Katherine Parr
 
 King Edward VI
 Queen Mary I
 Queen Elizabeth I
 Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond
 
 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
 James IV, King of Scotland
 The Battle of Flodden Field, 1513
 James V, King of Scotland
 Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland
 
 Mary Tudor, Queen of France
 Louis XII, King of France
 Francis I, King of France
 The Battle of the Spurs, 1513
 Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520
 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
 Eustace Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador
 The Siege of Boulogne, 1544
 
 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
 Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
 Thomas, Lord Audley
 Thomas Wriothesley, E. Southampton
 Sir Richard Rich
 
 Edward Stafford, D. of Buckingham
 Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
 John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
 Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire
 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
 John Russell, Earl of Bedford
 Thomas Grey, 2. Marquis of Dorset
 Henry Grey, D. of Suffolk
 Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester
 George Talbot, 4. E. Shrewsbury
 Francis Talbot, 5. E. Shrewsbury
 Henry Algernon Percy,
 5th Earl of Northumberland
 Henry Algernon Percy,
 6th Earl of Northumberland
 Ralph Neville, 4. E. Westmorland
 Henry Neville, 5. E. Westmorland
 William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester
 Sir Francis Bryan
 Sir Nicholas Carew
 John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
 John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford
 Thomas Seymour, Lord Admiral
 Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset
 Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
 Henry Pole, Lord Montague
 Sir Geoffrey Pole
 Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland
 Henry Manners, Earl of Rutland
 Henry Bourchier, 2. Earl of Essex
 Robert Radcliffe, 1. Earl of Sussex
 Henry Radcliffe, 2. Earl of Sussex
 George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon
 Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter
 George Neville, Baron Bergavenny
 Sir Edward Neville
 William, Lord Paget
 William Sandys, Baron Sandys
 William Fitzwilliam, E. Southampton
 Sir Anthony Browne
 Sir Thomas Wriothesley
 Sir William Kingston
 George Brooke, Lord Cobham
 Sir Richard Southwell
 Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre
 Sir Francis Weston
 Henry Norris
 Lady Jane Grey
 Sir Thomas Arundel
 Sir Richard Sackville
 Sir William Petre
 Sir John Cheke
 Walter Haddon, L.L.D
 Sir Peter Carew
 Sir John Mason
 Nicholas Wotton
 John Taylor
 Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Younger
 
 Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio
 Cardinal Reginald Pole
 Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
 Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
 Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London
 John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester
 John Aylmer, Bishop of London
 Thomas Linacre
 William Grocyn
 Archbishop William Warham
 Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham
 Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester
 Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford
 
 Pope Julius II
 Pope Leo X
 Pope Clement VII
 Pope Paul III
 Pope Pius V
 
 Pico della Mirandola
 Desiderius Erasmus
 Martin Bucer
 Richard Pace
 Christopher Saint-German
 Thomas Tallis
 Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent
 Hans Holbein, the Younger
 The Sweating Sickness
 
 Dissolution of the Monasteries
 Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536
 Robert Aske
 Anne Askew
 Lord Thomas Darcy
 Sir Robert Constable
 
 Oath of Supremacy
 The Act of Supremacy, 1534
 The First Act of Succession, 1534
 The Third Act of Succession, 1544
 The Ten Articles, 1536
 The Six Articles, 1539
 The Second Statute of Repeal, 1555
 The Act of Supremacy, 1559
 Articles Touching Preachers, 1583
 
 Queen Elizabeth I
 William Cecil, Lord Burghley
 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
 Sir Francis Walsingham
 Sir Nicholas Bacon
 Sir Thomas Bromley
 
 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
 Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick
 Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon
 Sir Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley
 Sir Francis Knollys
 Katherine "Kat" Ashley
 Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester
 George Talbot, 6. E. of Shrewsbury
 Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury
 Gilbert Talbot, 7. E. of Shrewsbury
 Sir Henry Sidney
 Sir Robert Sidney
 Archbishop Matthew Parker
 Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
 Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich
 Sir Christopher Hatton
 Edward Courtenay, E. Devonshire
 Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
 Thomas Radcliffe, 3. Earl of Sussex
 Henry Radcliffe, 4. Earl of Sussex
 Robert Radcliffe, 5. Earl of Sussex
 William Parr, Marquis of Northampton
 Henry Wriothesley, 2. Southampton
 Henry Wriothesley, 3. Southampton
 Charles Neville, 6. E. Westmorland
 Thomas Percy, 7. E. Northumberland
 Henry Percy, 8. E. Northumberland
 Henry Percy, 9. E. Nothumberland
 William Herbert, 1. Earl of Pembroke
 Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham
 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
 Henry Howard, 1. Earl of Northampton
 Thomas Howard, 1. Earl of Suffolk
 Henry Hastings, 3. E. of Huntingdon
 Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
 Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland
 Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland
 Henry FitzAlan, 12. Earl of Arundel
 Thomas, Earl Arundell of Wardour
 Edward Somerset, E. of Worcester
 William Davison
 Sir Walter Mildmay
 Sir Ralph Sadler
 Sir Amyas Paulet
 Gilbert Gifford
 Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague
 François, Duke of Alençon & Anjou
 
 Mary, Queen of Scots
 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
 James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
 Anthony Babington and the Babington Plot
 John Knox
 
 Philip II of Spain
 The Spanish Armada, 1588
 Sir Francis Drake
 Sir John Hawkins
 
 William Camden
 Archbishop Whitgift
 Martin Marprelate Controversy
 John Penry (Martin Marprelate)
 Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury
 John Dee, Alchemist
 
 Philip Henslowe
 Edward Alleyn
 The Blackfriars Theatre
 The Fortune Theatre
 The Rose Theatre
 The Swan Theatre
 Children's Companies
 The Admiral's Men
 The Lord Chamberlain's Men
 Citizen Comedy
 The Isle of Dogs, 1597
 
 Common Law
 Court of Common Pleas
 Court of King's Bench
 Court of Star Chamber
 Council of the North
 Fleet Prison
 Assize
 Attainder
 First Fruits & Tenths
 Livery and Maintenance
 Oyer and terminer
 Praemunire
 
 
 The Stuarts
 
 King James I of England
 Anne of Denmark
 Henry, Prince of Wales
 The Gunpowder Plot, 1605
 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
 Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset
 Arabella Stuart, Lady Lennox
 
 William Alabaster
 Bishop Hall
 Bishop Thomas Morton
 Archbishop William Laud
 John Selden
 Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford
 Henry Lawes
 
 King Charles I
 Queen Henrietta Maria
 
 Long Parliament
 Rump Parliament
 Kentish Petition, 1642
 
 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
 John Digby, Earl of Bristol
 George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
 Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax
 Robert Devereux, 3rd E. of Essex
 Robert Sidney, 2. E. of Leicester
 Algernon Percy, E. of Northumberland
 Henry Montagu, Earl of Manchester
 Edward Montagu, 2. Earl of Manchester
 
 The Restoration
 
 King Charles II
 King James II
 Test Acts
 
 Greenwich Palace
 Hatfield House
 Richmond Palace
 Windsor Palace
 Woodstock Manor
 
 The Cinque Ports
 Mermaid Tavern
 Malmsey Wine
 Great Fire of London, 1666
 Merchant Taylors' School
 Westminster School
 The Sanctuary at Westminster
 "Sanctuary"
 
 
 Images:
 
 Chart of the English Succession from William I through Henry VII
 
 Medieval English Drama
 
 London c1480, MS Royal 16
 London, 1510, the earliest view in print
 Map of England from Saxton's Descriptio Angliae, 1579
 London in late 16th century
 Location Map of Elizabethan London
 Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time
 Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593
 Bull and Bear Baiting Rings from the Agas Map (1569-1590, pub. 1631)
 Sketch of the Swan Theatre, c. 1596
 Westminster in the Seventeenth Century, by Hollar
 Visscher's View of London, 1616
 Larger Visscher's View in Sections
 c. 1690.  View of London Churches, after the Great Fire
 The Yard of the Tabard Inn from Thornbury, Old and New London
 
 
 
 
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