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  • Perserverance Tavern, or "Percies" to the locals, is one of the best spots in Cape Town to have a pint and watch a game.

    Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2009

  • Percies, brought the poet into the acquaintance of his kinswoman, the countess, who, before her marriage with the earl, was in her own right heiress of the House of Northumberland.

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • Dr. Percy, knowing himself to be the heir male of the ancient Percies, and having the warmest and most dutiful attachment to the noble House of Northumberland, could not sit quietly and hear a man praised, who had spoken disrespectfully of Alnwick-Castle and the

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Henry wants to rule well, having come to power with the support of the Percies; they, for their own part, are genuinely alarmed by his moves toward consolidation of authority.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Comfortably established in the north of England, on the Scottish border, the Percies have no use for a centralized royal authority.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Henry has partly driven the Percies into rebellion by his hauteur and his suspicions of them, but he also is right to worry about them.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Moreover, Mortimer is in league with the Percies; his sister is married to Hotspur.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Douglas attacked the country of his old enemies, the Percies, and won the victory of Otterburn or Chevy Chase

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • Close on Homildon Hill followed the rebellion of the Percies, and the result of the English victory at Homildon was merely to create a new difficulty for Henry IV.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • The successive attacks on Alnwick and Warkworth roused the Percies to a greater effort, and, in October, they invaded

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

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