Do you come on your own account, or from another ?" "I come from the Earl of Northumberland, and his son Sir Henry Percy; and am charged, in the first place, to deliver this letter to you; and then to give you such further intelligence, as to the matter, as it may be needful for you to know." "From the Percys!" Glendower said, in surprise, as he cut the silk that held the roll together.
His countenance expressed great surprise, as he read the contents.
"There is no snare in this ?" he said suddenly, after reading it through two or three times, and looking sharply at Oswald.

"'Tis not from the Percys, who, more than any other, assisted the usurper to the throne, that I should have looked for such an offer." "I should be the last to bring such a letter to you, Glendower, were there aught behind what is written.

The earl and Hotspur spoke of the matter at length to me.

They regret, now, the part they took in enthroning Henry; at whose hands they have now received such indignities that they are resolved, if it may be, to undo their work, and to place the lawful king, the young Earl of March, on the throne." He then related the various complaints that the Percys had against the king, and told Glendower that the matter had been brought to a head by Henry's refusal to allow them to pay the ransom that had been collected for Sir Edmund Mortimer.
"Whom have they with them ?" Glendower asked, after listening in silence.
"They have the Earl of Westmoreland, who, like themselves, is greatly offended at the appointment of four commissioners, men of no standing or position, to judge between two of the great barons of England; blood relations, too, whose difference is on a matter of but small importance.

No other name was mentioned before me, but the earl stated that he looked for much assistance from Scotland." "Ay, ay! As they hold in their hands Douglas, and the Regent's son, Moray, and Angus, they may well make terms with Scotland.