Excerpt from Cheviot: A Poetical Fragment Otterburn was the scene of the great battle between Percy and Douglas, in in which Douglas was slain, and Percy, the fa mous Hotspur, defeated, and, with his brother Ralph Percy, taken prisoner. The family of Hall was settled here for several centuries, and seems to have been the head of a numerous clan, the surname being to this day the most common one in that neighbourhood. John Hall, Esq. The gentleman here apostrophised, joined in the bellion of 1715, was taken prisoner at Preston, and died at Tyburn, by his own declaration, a most determined Jacobite. By his attain der, the estate was forfeited to the crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.