William, Henry's brother - a genius and poet?

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"No particulars are known of the author of Coelia.

A person of both his names was second of the seven brothers

of Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland,

a nobleman who died in 1632, aged 70;
and whose imprisonment for fifteen years in the Tower
on account of the Gunpowder plot, has rendered his story remarkable.

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William Percy,

third son of Henry, eighth Earl of Northumberland,

is recorded
as a man of learning and genius,

who lived retired at Oxford many years;
and dying there, was buried in Christ-Church Cathedral
May 28, 1648, having never married."




Coelia ; containing Twenty Sonnets By W.Percy, 1818

page iv

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