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		Percy, Earl of Winchester, next succeeded to the same title, which once more was dropped in the 2d of Henry IV., and divided as before.
		At the Restoration, in 1660, the Duke of York was constituted Lord High Admiral of England.
		This sum, by 1st George II., was divided equally among seven commissioners, an arrangement which continued from that time, except that the pay of the commissioner who stood first in the patent was made up from other funds to 3000 pounds a year, and in the year 1806 was further increased of 5000 pounds a-year.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/ADM/admiral.html (2792 words)

	Alnwick -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to (additional info and facts about Country Life) Country Life, October 2002, the "historic county town of Northumberland and seat of the (additional info and facts about Duke of Northumberland) Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick is the most picturesque market town in Northumberland, and the best place to live in Britain".
		The ball is fetched from Alnwick Castle in procession, preceded by the Duke of Northumberland's piper.
		At various points in the town are memorials of the constant wars between Percies and Scots in which so many Percies spent the greater part of their lives.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alnwick.htm (1563 words)

	Magna Carta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This son of Duncan 1st of Scotland was sent down to King Edward's Norman court in England, probably as a hostage, by the Earl of Northumbria after the McBeth affair.
		The Normanization of Scotland continued unabated through to Alexander 1st who was brother-in-law of Henry 1st of England, and married Henry's daughter, Sybilla.
		Duke William, 150 years before had also had problems with those same barons and he took an army of 40,000 north and wasted the land with a devastating scorched earth policy, so much so, that the Domesday surveyors, 20 years after the Conquest, ignored the northern counties as a wasteland.
	www.genealogyweb.com /magna.htm (5284 words)

	Henry
		1953 Henry Percy, 11th duke of Northumberland, godchild of Elizabeth II
		1861 Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
		1856 Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, Governor-General of India, dies
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/h/henry.html (6129 words)

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