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A Power in the North? The Percies in the Fifteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss
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University of California, Irvine
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The Historical Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 501 - 509
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