Ursus, you can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Alternatively (it will not surprise you that I thought about this at some length when the phrase was first coined), had Henry not killed Harry (or if the latter hadn't died on the battlefield of rebellion to be precise), the two most likely outcomes would have been that the rebellion was successful or that it never occurred and Hotspur morphed into a old, fat Lord Percy with none of the doing it with style that attracted the Tottenham school boys to the name in the first place. You know, basically a middle-aged life of boring the other side to death (either way, whether King or not).

So we have the rebellion to thank for our glorious name. Tottenham Bedford, Essex or Talbot just wouldn't have anywhere near the elan of the original.

St. Hotspur Day.

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages,
What feats he did that day . . .

We really were happy that day, perhaps happier than we have been since, and weren't that few . . .