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A54308
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This book makes appear the claim, pedigree and proceedings of James Percy now claimant to the Earldom of Northumberland humbly presented to both Houses of Parliament.
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Percy, James, 1619-1690?
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1680
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Wing P1460; ESTC R30769
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Pray c. JAMES PERCY THis Petition was offer'd to His Majesty the 24th of January 1680 1. and His Majesty was pleas'd to say He would not receive it But said You may go where You please Which Saying was taken for an Answer to that Petition presented the 17 of January Wherein it was to be understood the Petitioner had prepared his Complaints for the House of Commons It is to be noted That the Gentlemen who attended the King said Yonder is the E. of Northumberland with a Petition why should Your Majesty trouble Your self with it had You not one the other day reject it I have found His Most Excellent Majesty hath been inclinable to Justice all along but still is obstructed by one means or other But the plain Truth is His Majesty would not be seen to give and ungive at his own pleasure His Majesty being mistaken in his Guifts Therefore was Graciously pleased the Lords should Hear and Determine the said Cause And to that purpose did come down to the Bar in the House of Lords to hear the Cause Himself but was disappointed as by the Petitions and Affidavits appear But the said Cause having been continued a long time at such a vast Charge and then to be slightly blown over without a fair Hearing all the World much admires For the clearing up of the Pedigree would have confirm'd the Errors Therefore Your Petitioner Appeals to the Honourable House of Commons And most Humbly and Earnestly prays your Assistance to enquire the Reason why and how the Writts of Errors came to be dismist And that they may be Re-manded back that a fair Hearing may be had according to the Prayer of the Petitions Or that You will be pleased to cause the Heralds to enquire into the Truth of the Claimants Pedigree And that He may be call'd from the Kings Bench Prison to the House of Peers to take the Place and Seat of his Ancestors Earls of Northumberland And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray c. JAMES PERCY Right Honourable I Am your Cousin though a Prisoner descended from the Body of Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland By which Descent I am Cousin and next Heir-male to Josceline Percy your Father the hite and 11th Earl of Northumberland Deceased A Prison is a Grave for Men alive But when Naboth was ston'd to death then Ahab took possession of the Vinyard 1 Kings 21.18 And walking in the Garden among the Beds of Pleasure then God sent his Prophet Elias to tell Ahab of his Transgression notwithstanding he was a King Ezekiel 46.18 When Belshazzar wac quaffing in the Gold and Silver Vessels of the Temple then appear'd the Hand-writing upon the Wall Dan. 5. When your late Husband the Lord Ogle went about to assume the name of Percy and to have the Percies Lands settled upon him by Act of Parliament then God call'd him to Accompt Therefore let Your Ladiship do Justice speedily and submit to Truth in Time for fear God calls You to Accompt also I believe Your Servants and Agents have rendred Me to You to be a Monster and not a Man Be not too subject to Believe Them but see with your own Eys and hear with your own Ears and admit Me into Your presence for I have somthing to offer that will add Fame to Your Honour and Rank You with those Two Worthy Women of our Family the Lady Agnes Percy who preserved the Percies Name and the Lady Lucy that settled her Estate upon the Heirs Males of the Percies for ever And for ever that Estate must attend the Title And the Fines can never be recover'd but by the true Heir-Male of the Percies Mr. Gee can inform You if he pleases how I was at Petworth in the Year 1654. And then and there made my Claim as I do now And before Mr. Clark's Tryal Your Agents with their Councel would have own'd Me to be the next Heir and would have assisted Me for the Title with their Books Pedigree and Records And also how I met with Mr. Champian and Mr. Gee at Doctor Lampley's House and there made out my Pedigree clear only I could not find out my Great Grand-fathers Name First it was a very hard Name And Secondly Mr. Champian kept it secret till he was forc'd to declare upon his Oath that Sir Ingelram Percy was Married and had Sons and Daughters at Sir John Coppleston's Tryal for Cannington and Rodaway Lands in Somersetshire Thirdly The Heralds had altogether neglected the Collateral Line of the Percies Now all my Aim is really to beget a right understanding so that I may remain Your Ladiships Real Cordial and Faithful Kinsman and most Humble Servant JAMES PERCY What I have to declare to your Ladyship is not convenient to be committed to writing but assure your self it really tends to your present Welfare and future Peace and Prosperity An Answer will find me in the Kings-Bench-Rules at the Written Table at Captain Dancer's House in Lombard-street near the Bowling-green in the Borough of Southwark This Letter was presented the day of the date hereof and the Claymant hath printed it that the world may see that a true Percy is not ashamed of his Innocent and Just Cause nor affraid of his Potent Opponents For he whom I trust in is greater than they 5 Eccles ver 8. ☞ NOw in these our days there is no Prophet God Michaia Elijah nor Interpreters of Dreams like Joseph and Daniel that dares presume to speak to Kings as they did in those days Therefore James Percy the true Heir male of the Percies Earls of Northumberland humbly makes bold with the Prophet Ezekiel cap. 46. ver 18. Moreover the Prince shall not take of the Peoples Inheritance by oppression but he shall give his Sons Inheritance out of his own Possession that my People be not scattered every man from his Possession The King 's Most Excellent Majestie 's Gracious Answer was to the Claimant's first Petition in 1670. God forbid that we should hinder an Heir but that he should have the Benefit of the Law And to that purpose His Majâ—sty ordered Sir John Berkenhead Master of Reequests then in wâ—iting to go to the Attorney General to know why he refused to sign the Co-warrant which the Claymants Sollicitor Mr. Thomas Swain presented to him to sign But the Attorney General said He could nâ—t sign Percie 's Co-warrant by reason that he was of Council for the Countess of Northumberland And the Court of Wards being put down did much â—â—dernize the Claimant in his Proceedings and to less than nine several Persons have stood upon and been shâ—â—ter'd under Priviledge which hath been the cause of delay all this time And from that time Mr. Swayn the Claymant's Sollicitor began to play the Devil with two sticks for whilst James Percy was prosecuting the Law and delivering Declarations in Ejectments in the North the Sollicitor had contriv'd the business so as the Title and Lands were begg'd dispos'd and scatter'd
that Rebell'd and was Executed in the Life-time of his Brethren And his Sons was a Bar to Sir Ingleram Percy the Younger Brother or else Sir Ingleram without all doubt had been immediately Seized of the Estate after the Earl his Elder Brother's Death For Thomas his Attaint did not prejudice the Elder Brother nor hurt the Younger Brother He only Corrupted his own Line Now Mr. Clark Mr. Champion and Mr. Gee did make use of their time and by Favour possest themselves of most s of those Lands as the several Leases and Lives were expired And to continue those Lands in policy they set up William Percy thinking they might please him as they do Children with an Apple Had the Agents sent me Money so often as they did William they had done well but opposing me the True Heir against their own Knowledge they have done very unjustly For Mr. Orlando Gee well knows I made my Claim at Petmouth in the Year 1654. I am your Cordial Friend J. P. SIR I Have according to my Promise given you a true Account as I did at first when I was ignorant and could not make out my Great Grand-Father to fix my Pedigree But when Mr. Henry Champion at Sir John Coppleston's Tryal was forced upon his Oath then he confest that Sir Ingleram Percy who was hid from me before was Marryed and had Sons and Daughters Mr. Champion knew this when the Letters and Mony was sent to my Brother William I wonder a Wife Man as you are should be so deceived by him And the World may wonder at me that have trac'd their Treacheries and dissembling Actions and found them out so as it will continue to their shame another Day Had the Agents been true to themselves they should have acted the Honest Part as Mr. Champion was once about to do at my first Coming over For he came to me and said Mr. Percy Will you own the Old Servants I replyed According as they shall deserve And then Mr. Gee came to me and said Was you the Man that came to Petworth in the Year 54 And with the Circumstantial Remembrances I gave silenced him Truly I am ashamed to declare their unworthy Actions and what they have forced me to Now suppose they had proved Mary Varnon Marryed yet I was seven Years elder But to put up a poor indigent Man a Journy-man-Glover Christening his Children to deceive the World and to slight the true Heir because I was a Trunck-maker The Trade is Good and by God's Blessing it hath given me Bread in the Extremity of my Travels till I obtained the Merchandizing Trade And can make my Three Sons Free-Men Merchants of London and Dublin in Ireland and of Norwich in Norfolk and have likewise Trayned them up to Handycrafts So that if they fail in the Mystery of Merchandizing they may with God's Blessing Live upon their Ingenuity Yet one word more in my Father Henry Percy 's behalf by way of Comparison There was one of the Female Sex that was addicted to Venery and a Person of Quality being over seen had to do with her and she laid the Child to him though some other might have got it And such People are not much to be blamed for getting the best Father they can for the Child To conclude I must not forget to tell you what the Agents are doing now amongst the Tenants as I am informed They call all their Courts for the Lord Ogle by the Name of Percy and informs all the Tenants That James Percy the Ten Years Claymant is Run away But by God's Providence I remain at Mr. Ralph Carter's House a Trunck-maker in Fleet-street over against Serjeant's Inn where the Messenger may find James Percy to Serve the King 's Royal Writ of Summons upon Since I saw you I presented a Petition into the King's sacred Hand And His gracious Answer to the Master of Request was as at the Beginning when I first Petitioned the King whom God Bless with long Life here and Eternal Happiness hereafter You will find the Petition and Answer in the First Sheet added to this Book If a Tinker was taken in his Travels a Laborer from under his Hod of Morter and a Sawyer out of the Saw-Pit to Enjoy their Birth-right and Inheritance then Why may not James Percy the true Heir to the Earldom of Northumberland be call'd from a Trunck-makers House to take his Place and Seat in the Right Honourable House of PEERS according to his Birth-right and Title YOu was pleased to tell me That Disgust was taken against me for the Verses I sent to the Countess I must confess I writ them in a great Passion because the Countess would not vouchsafe to speak with me but peept through the Window at me And because I begun with a Verse I will end with a Verse by reason the Countess shall see I am still the same Man And so leave the Cause to GOD to the KING Parliament and People to Judg whether Pought to lose my Birth-right for so small an Offence as these following Verses Wealth is the Gyant grown so high That can a Percy now defye Though like David with Sling and Stones Shews Great Champion's Blood and Bones Saul seeking Asses Kingdom mes James seeks his Right finds Foes too Great Pray God give me a Zealous Heart That I may seek the Better Part Then shall I Sing his Praises clear Scorn to peep through a Window here This is done that it shall be said A Percy Lives though Josceline's Dead Resolv'd I am to spend my All Before a Percy 's Name shall Fall If the afore said Verses gave Offence I hope these following Verses will not An Impostor is a Base Name By doing Justice clears the Shame And blows away the Clouds so high Makes Truth shine clear as Sun in Sky I trust in God that can Restore If not on Earth to Heavens Shore FINIS THE CASE OF JAMES PERCY The true Heir-Male and Claimant to the Earldom of Northumberland To the Honourable Knights Citizens and Burgesses And to the Committee of Grievances in PARLIAMENT Assembled The Humble Petition of JAMES PERCY Cozen and next Heir-Male to JOSCELIN PERCY the late and Eleventh EARL of NORTHUMBERLAND Deceased SHEWETH THAT your Petitioner was the Son of Henry Percy who was the Son of Henry Percy who was the Son of Sir Ingleram Percy who was the third Son of Henry Percy Fifth Earl of Northumberland By which Descent your Petitioner is Entitled to the Earldom of Northumberland and to several Baronies Honours Manors and Lands which to the Earldom and Baronies have been and still are annexed your Petitioner having proved his Pedigree questions not but by your Assistance to make appear they are or should be his Right and Just Inheritance as Cozen and Heir-Male to Joscelin late Earl afore-mentioned And therefore ought to fit in Parliament and enjoy the Place Seat and Preheminence of his Ancestors with the Dignities to him so descended and do