PERCY, Bishop Thomas
(*1728)> ANTIQUARY · DIVINE
PERCY (Bishop Thomas). English antiquary and divine, Bridgenorth, Shropshire, 1728. U. 1811. Best known by his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765, and numerous other editions. This work contains the poetry of many old songs and ballads, and has been compared and collated in this connection by the late Dr. Rimbault, who published “Musical Illustrations of Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English poetry, Lond., 8vo, 1850.