Henry -"a great encourager of literature and science"

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"Henry, ninth earl, memorable for the charge of being privy to the gunpowder plot, 1605, grounded on the patronage he had afforded to Thomas Percy, one of the principal conspirators, a relative whose exact connexion in blood is not known,
was confined in the tower for fifteen years and upwards, till 1620,

where he showed himself a great encourager of literature and science,
and kept a table for several learned men.

This long imprisonment did not break his spirit; for, on his release,
hearing that Buckingham, the favourite, had six horses to his coach,
he put eight to his own, and passed through the city of London to Bath, to the admiration of the people.

He then retired to Petworth, kept up great hospitality there, and died at this celebrated seat of the Lovain-Percys in 1632."


"English Peerage"
The Quarterly Review - page 297
Published 1830

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