WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD COLD

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 65

WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD COLD

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His grandson had married an heiress of Joceline de Louvaine, Duke of Brabant, Who was descended from Charlemagne ; ?nd in his wife's right as well as his own ne was a very great personage indeed, ohe castle had become very dilapidated, but in the Percys' hands it rapidly retoained its importance ; and the mighty towers stood once again almost impregnable in their strength. The history of the Percys is, in fact, the history of England, so closely are they concerned With, the events that stand out as remarkAble all through the ages. A Percy figures on the roll of the Great Charter ; Percy fought at Flodden and Neville's Cross, at Crecy and Agincourt. A Percy helped Wickliffe to hoist the standard of the Reformation, and a Percy «hared Raleigh's imprisonment, "the favourer of all good learning." In the reign of Charle¥ n their long line ended ha. a daughter, Lady Elizabeth, who was married after many adventures to the Duke of Somerset. Their son, Algernon, was said to possess more titles than any other subject of the Crown of England. His only child, a daughter, married Sir Hugh Smithson, and it is -her descendants, Percys only, in the female line, who are lords of Alnwick to-day.

- A "lletter dated a hundred years ago describes a visit .to Ahiwick in- the diys of the- second duke, the son of Sir Hugh (Smfthson and his doubly-dowered btide. .The writer, a Scottish lady of position, says: — "I enjoyed seeing the stately remains of ancient hospitality at the castle of the Percys. When the Duke of Northumberland was at home a flag was every Thursday unfurled on the highest tower as au invitation to anyone previously introduced to come and dine. The gentry of .the country did not slight the invitation. About 40 guests sat down on the day we dined there. I was bidden to sit next a .vacant space. Presently the old Duke was .wheeled into the room, and his chair filled that space, so that I had much of his discourse during dinner. He spoke, bub >iot tediously, of his infirmity from gout. He had tried, he said, every remedy for it except one, which in the case of a friend of his had proved efficacious — viz., the ibastinado. This had. been applied to his friend when travelling in Turkey, and disabled by gout from descending from his palanquin to pay the required homage to the Grand Vizier. That bastinadoing proved an actual cure."

That gouty second Duke had been a very smart officer in his day, and had served with honour in the Seven Years' War, and in America. He it was who invented a sort of hobby-horse, or velocipede, the forerunner of our modern bicycle. The curious machine is, kept in the armoury at Aln•wick, and is a source of interested amusement to visitors to this day.