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" I know not whether the above offer was accepted, or the faid William WORME committed to durance in Alnwick Caftle : but there is a tradition in the place, that an Auditor was formerly confined in the Dungeon under one of the Towers, till he could make... "
The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy - Page 429
by Henry Algernon Percy Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Percy - 1770 - 464 pages
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The Regulations and Establishment of the Houshold of Henry Algernon Percy ...

Henry Algernon Percy, Thomas Percy - England - 1770 - 516 pages
...the above offer was accepted, or the faid William WORME committed to durance in Alnwick Caftle : but there is a tradition in the place, that an Auditor...page is evidently a contraction for Leckinfield. Page 2 3. The ALB was an ancient linen Garment worn at the adminiftration of the Communion, but differed...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 81, Part 1; Volume 109

Early English newspapers - 1811 - 768 pages
...committed to durance in Alnwick Castle ; but there is a tradition in the place, that an A udi torwas formerly confined in the dungeon under one of the...could make up his accounts to his Lord's satisfaction. (To be continued,) Mr. URBAN, Birmingham, Jan. 24, 1BEG to offer an elucidation of the antient Seal...
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Who wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey? : a dissertation

George Cavendish - 1825 - 574 pages
...Northumberland Household Book, p. 446, and Burn's Ecclesiastical Law. 9 licence. There is a tradition at Alnwick that an auditor was formerly confined in the dungeon...could make up his accounts to his lord's satisfaction. I assur yow I have ffonddon a marvellous honest man, as ever I ffownd in my lyff. In hast at my monestary...
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Some Notices of the Life of Henry, Lord Percy, Sixth Earl of ..., Part 3

Richard Simpson (of Lower Clapton.) - Genealogy - 1879 - 144 pages
...Yours ever assured, ' To my bedfellow Arundel.' ' H. NORTHUMBERLAND.' (There is a tradition at Alnwick that an auditor was formerly confined in the dungeon...make up his accounts to his lord's satisfaction.) The house of Northumberland had anciently three minstrels attending on them in their castles in Yorkshire,...
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A History of the House of Percy: From the Earliest Times Down to ..., Volume 1

Gerald Brenan - 1902 - 472 pages
...well-deserved punishment. In the Alnwick MSS. Bishop Percy states that one of the castle legends relates how " an Auditor was formerly confined in the Dungeon under one of the Towers, until he could make up his Accounts to his Lord's satisfaction." There is certainly a tower at Alnwick...
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