This, the first actual confrontation (and 'most serious incident to date')[REF] between the two families, in response to the marriage of Thomas and Maud, a marriage which Griffiths has said must have been 'obnoxious' to the Percys, and particularly Egremont [REF].
The prospect of Percy manors passing to the Neville family was too much for Lord Egremont, who spent days fiercely recruiting in York and ambushed the Nevilles on their way home to Sheriff Hutton.