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THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF PIERCY. 117
immoveable within a league and a half of the island;
when bis companions seeing so strange a boat float upon
the wraters, imagined they saw a spectre, and were not a
little startled at the resolution of the man, who durst
hazard himself upon that element in three boards slightly
nailed together, though he had no confidence to find or
be received by those who had so lately sentenced him to
death. Accordingly it was put to the question, whether
he should be received or not; some would have the sen-
tence put in execution, but at last mercy prevailed, and
he was taken aboard, and came afterwards to Holland;
where he lived in the town of Horn, and related to many
how miraculously God had delivered him.
THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF PIERCY.
Malcolm, king of Scotland, having laid siege to
Alnwick Castle, which being unable to resist him, must
have inevitably fallen into his hands, as no relief could
be expected; whereupon a young Englishman, without
any other arms than a slight spear in his hand, at the end
whereof hung the keys of the castle, rode into the ene-
my’s camp, and approaching near the king, slooping
the lance, as if he intended to present him with the keys
of the garrison, but at the same time made such a home
thrust at the king, that piercing him into his brain,
through one of his eyes, he fell down dead, and the bold
undertaker escaped by the swiftness of his horse.
From this desperate action, he took upon himself the
name of Percie, or Pierce-eye. And from him descended
the ancient carls of Northumberland.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND WONDERFUL
MUSEUM.
Sir,
According to promise, I now send you more Miscellaneous Articles, which
you will fiud no ways inferior to my former accounts under the same title,
and
immoveable within a league and a half of the island;
when bis companions seeing so strange a boat float upon
the wraters, imagined they saw a spectre, and were not a
little startled at the resolution of the man, who durst
hazard himself upon that element in three boards slightly
nailed together, though he had no confidence to find or
be received by those who had so lately sentenced him to
death. Accordingly it was put to the question, whether
he should be received or not; some would have the sen-
tence put in execution, but at last mercy prevailed, and
he was taken aboard, and came afterwards to Holland;
where he lived in the town of Horn, and related to many
how miraculously God had delivered him.
THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF PIERCY.
Malcolm, king of Scotland, having laid siege to
Alnwick Castle, which being unable to resist him, must
have inevitably fallen into his hands, as no relief could
be expected; whereupon a young Englishman, without
any other arms than a slight spear in his hand, at the end
whereof hung the keys of the castle, rode into the ene-
my’s camp, and approaching near the king, slooping
the lance, as if he intended to present him with the keys
of the garrison, but at the same time made such a home
thrust at the king, that piercing him into his brain,
through one of his eyes, he fell down dead, and the bold
undertaker escaped by the swiftness of his horse.
From this desperate action, he took upon himself the
name of Percie, or Pierce-eye. And from him descended
the ancient carls of Northumberland.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND WONDERFUL
MUSEUM.
Sir,
According to promise, I now send you more Miscellaneous Articles, which
you will fiud no ways inferior to my former accounts under the same title,
and