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THOMAS PERCY (1729-1811)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 137 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:PERCY (1729-1811)  , See also:bishop of See also:Dromore, editor of the See also:Percy Reliques, was See also:born at See also:Bridgnorth on the 13th of See also:April 1729 . His See also:father, See also:Arthur See also:Lowe Percy, a See also:grocer, was of sufficient means to send his son to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, in 1746 . He graduated in 1750 and proceeded M.A. in 1753 . In the latter See also:year he was appointed to the vicarage of See also:Easton Maudit, See also:Northamptonshire, and three years later was instituted to the rectory of Wilby in the same See also:county, benefices which he retained until 1782 . In 1759 he married See also:Anne, daughter of See also:Barton See also:Gutter-See also:ridge . At Easton Maudit most of the See also:literary See also:work for which he is now remembered—including the Reliques—was completed_ When his name became famous he was made domestic See also:chaplain to the See also:duke and duchess of See also:Northumberland, and was tempted into the belief that he belonged to the illustrious See also:house of Percy . Through his See also:patron's See also:influence he became See also:dean of See also:Carlisle in 1778 and bishop of Dromore in See also:Ireland in 1782 . His wife died before him in 18o6; the See also:good bishon. See also:blind but otherwise in See also:Wales . Hotspur was killed, the earls of See also:Douglas and See also:Worcester, See also:Sir See also:Richard Venables of Kinderton, and Sir Richard See also:Vernon were captured, and the See also:rebel See also:army dispersed . Worcester, Venables and Vernon were executed the next See also:day . Percy's See also:body was buried at See also:Whitchurch, but was disinterred two days later to be exhibited in See also:Shrewsbury . The See also:head was cut off, and fixed on one of the See also:gates of See also:York .

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sound See also:health, lived until the 3oth of See also:September 1811 . Both to the thesis of See also:Balzac's work, See also:Les Petites miseres de la See also:vie See also:con-were buried in the See also:transept which Percy added to Dromore jugale . More and more pessimistic as to the See also:political future See also:Cathedral. of his See also:country, See also:Pereda took occasion in See also:Don Gonzalo Gonzalez Dr Percy's first work was a See also:translation from a Portuguese de la Gonzalera (1879) to ridicule the Revolution as he had seen See also:manuscript of a See also:Chinese See also:story, published in 1761 . Two years it at work, and to pour scorn upon the nouveaux riches who later he published Five Pieces of Runic See also:Poetry, translated from exploited Liberalism for their See also:personal ends . Two novels by the Islandic . In 1763 he edited the See also:earl of See also:Surrey's poems with his friend See also:Perez Galdes, Dona Perfecta and Gloria, See also:drew from an See also:essay on See also:early See also:blank See also:verse, translated the See also:Song of See also:Solomon, Pereda a reply, De Tal palo tal astilla (188o), in which he endeaand published a See also:key to the New Testament . His See also:Northern yours to show that tolerance in religious matters is disastrous Antiquities (1770) is a translation from the See also:French of See also:Paul See also:Henri i alike to nations and to individuals . The Esbozos y rasgunos See also:Mallet . His reprint of The See also:Household See also:Book of the Earl of Northum- (1881) is of lighter material, and is less attractive than El Sabor berland in 1512 is of the greatest value for the illustrations of de la Tierruca (1882), a striking piece of landscape which won domestic See also:life in See also:England at that See also:period . But these See also:works are immediate appreciation .. New ground was broken in Pedro of little estimation when compared with the Reliques of See also:Ancient See also:Sanchez (1883), where Pereda leaves his native See also:province to See also:English Poetry (1765) . This was based on an old manuscript portray the disillusion of a sincere enthusiast who has plunged collection of poetry, rescued by Percy in See also:Humphrey See also:Pitt's house into the political life of the See also:capital .

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Shifnal, See also:Shropshire, from the hands of the housemaid who Sotileza (1884), a vigorous rendering of marine life by an artist was about to See also:light the See also:fire with it . The manuscript was edited who perceives and admires the daily heroisms of his See also:fisher-folk. in its See also:complete See also:form by J . W . See also:Hales and F . J . See also:Furnivall It has often been alleged against the author that he confines in 1867—1868. himself to provincial life, to lowly personages and to unrefined See A . C . C . See also:Gaussen, Percy: See also:Prelate and Poet (1908) . The subjects, and no doubt an anxiety to clear himself from this Reliques has been edited by various hands, notably by H . B . See also:Wheat- absurd reproach led him to See also:attempt a description of society at ley (1876) .

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fourth edition was by Percy's See also:nephew, See also:Thomas the capital in La Montalvez (1888), which is certainly the least Percy (1768-18o8), himself a writer of verse. interesting of his performances .

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