A Guide to Alnwick Castle (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of rtje $cmc$, from arl of to tfje Slf)o0t ]5oirte lgernon, tfje fourt SDufte of uniiierlanti. XV. Josceline Percy, == Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wriothesly, Earl of Southampton. eleventh Earl of Northumberland. XVI. Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset. XVII. Algernon Seymour, Baron Percy, Lucy, Poynings, andc., succeeded as Duke of Somerset, created Baron Warkworth, Earl of Northumberland, died Feb. 7, 1750, buried in St. Nicholas' Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth, Baroness of Percy, Lucy, Poynings, andc. Frances, daughter of Henry Thynne, Esq., died July 4, 1754, buried with her husband. Issue of Algernon, Seymour. XVII. Elizabeth Seymour, daughter and heiress, died Dec. 5, 1776, buried in St. Nicholas' Chapel, Westminster Abbey. XIX. Hugh Percy, second Duke of Northumberland, died July 10, 1817, buried in St. Nicholas' Chapel, Westminster Abbey. XX. Hugh Percy, Lord Warkworth, Earl Percy, third Duke of Northumberland, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, died Feb. u, 1847, buried in St. Nicholas' Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Sir Hugh Smithson Bart., succeeded as Baron Warkworth and Earl of Northumberland, created Duke of Northumberland, died July 6, 1786, buried in St. Nicholas' Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Frances Julia, daughter of Peter Burrell, Esq, died April 28, 1820. Lady Charlotte Florentine Clive, daughter of Clive, daughter of Edward, Earl of Powis. XXI. The Most Noble = Lady Eleanor Grosvenor, Algernon Percy, Lord daughter of the Mar- Prudhoe, Knight of the quis of Westminster. Garter, fourth Duke of Northumberland. Upon entering the Castle, the visitor passes through an unusually long and lofty barbican. He is struck, on first beholding it, by the heaviness of its external appearance. This can only...