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©Ijje §aUah 
 
 OF 
 
 FLODDEN FIELD, 
 
 A Poem of the XVIth Century. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 CHARLES A. FEDERER, L.C.P. 
 
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®0nti;nt0 : 
 
 The Ballad of Floddon, Part I. . . 
 
 Do. DO. Part II 
 
 Do. DO. Part III. 
 
 Do. DO. Part IV 
 
 Annotations and various Readings 
 Historical and Biographical Notes 
 Fawkes' Contemporary Account of the Battle 
 List of Cravicn Men who folght at Flodijon 
 
 page I 
 
 43 
 
 7' 
 89 
 
Ef)e JFamous l^istorg or Uallali 
 
 BATTLES FOUGHT IN FLODDON FIELD 
 
 iiirtkeit fvottt ait 
 
 ^itcteitt ^citntaci-tv>i jvl^itlj was tvaiiact-ttob btj 
 
 Pli-. l-itcijavb 05u»j, 
 
 Ittte Srljooltnafiiev in Jutnlcton, Uci'Ualjivc.^ 
 
 ^avt E. 
 
 THE FIRST FIT. 
 
 (To a pleafant Tunc.) 
 
 Now will I ceafe here to recite 
 
 The King's^ affairs in France fo wide, 
 And of domeftick jars I'll write, 
 
 That in his abfence did betide. 
 A fearful field in verfe I'll frame, 
 
 If you'll be pleafed to underftand : 
 O Floddon Mount !+ thy wond'rous name 
 
 Doth fore affright my trembling hand. 
 Thou God of War ! do me admit 
 
 For to difcourfe with founding praife 
 This bloody field, this fearful fight. 
 
 Fought in our old forefathers' days ! 
 
STfjc Ballati of Jlot)Hoti jFielti. 
 
 Pardon, ye poets all, I cry, 4 
 
 My fimple, rude, and rugged rhyme, 
 Ev'n thoueh the hill Parnaffus hiofh 
 
 Prefumptuoufly I prefs to climb ! 
 For what is he, with haughty flyle 5 
 
 Such deeds of honour could contrive ? 
 No, not the learned Virgil great. 
 
 If that on earth he was alive, 
 That could reveal in volume fhort 6 
 
 Great Howard's^ deeds who did excell. 
 Though lovely print made no report, 
 
 Fame would not fail the fame to tell. 
 Or thou, O Stanley,^ wondrous man ! 7 
 
 Thou fon of Mars ! who can proclaim 
 Thy matchlefs deeds ? Tell me who can 
 
 Paint thy juft praife on wings of fame ? 
 Thy doleful daywork ftill ftiall be 8 
 
 In Scotland curf'd with an outcry : 
 For Hector's match this man was he, 
 
 Who climbed the mount of Floddon high. 
 What banners bravely blaz'd and borne ! 9 
 
 What ftandards ftout brought to the ground ! 
 What worthy lords by him forlorne, 
 
 That forrow in Scotland yet doth found ! 
 Ye heav'nly powers ! your aid I crave ! 10 
 
 My flender mufe help to awake ; 
 Grant of this work, in hand I have, 
 
 A fine and lucky end may make ! 
 
SEfje Ballati of Jlonoon Jtelti. 
 
 Before King Henry croft the feas, ii 
 
 And e'er to France he did transfleet, 
 He thought the Scots might him difeafe 
 
 With confhituted captains meet. 
 He knew that EngHfh Kings they fought, 12 
 
 And by what might they were controul'd ; 
 Much more he in their abfence thought 
 
 What damage had been done of old. 
 And leaft that they fhould work fome teene, 1 3 
 
 As they thought to have done indeed, 
 He left his realm unto his queene 
 
 For to be ruled as there was need ; 
 Then for the earl of Surrey' fent, 14 
 
 And regent of the North him made. 
 And bad him, " If the Scots were bent 
 
 " The northern borders to invade : 
 " That he fhould raife a royal band 15 
 
 "In Bifhoprick^ and in Yorkfhire, 
 " In Weflmoreland and Cumberland, 
 
 " In Chefhire and in Lancafhire. 
 "And if thou need Northumberland," 16 
 
 Quoth he, " there be ftrong men and flout 
 " That will not ftick, if need they ftand, 
 
 "To fight on horfeback or on foot. 
 " There is the valiant Dacres^ old, 17 
 
 " Warden of the Weft march is he ; 
 " There are the bows of Kendal bold, 
 
 " Who fierce will fight and never flee. 
 
E|)r Ballat) of Jlotftion Jtelli. 
 
 " There is Sir Edward Stanley flout, i8 
 
 " For martial fkill clear without mack, 
 " Of Lathom houfe' by line come out," 
 
 " Whofe blood will never turn their back : 
 " All Lancafliire will live and die 19 
 
 " With him, fo chiefly will Chefhire : 
 " For through his father's force," quoth he, 
 
 " This kingdom firfl came to my Are."'' 
 " Lord Clifford" too, a lufty troope 20 
 
 " Will there condu6l, a captain wise ; 
 " And with the lufty knight, lord Scroope,'^ 
 
 " The power of Richmondfhire will rife. 
 " The wardens all look that you warn 21 
 
 " To hearken what the Scots forecaft, 
 " And if they figns of war difcern, 
 
 " Bid them the beacons fire faft." 
 The earl then with a forry heart 22 
 
 Had drowned his face with trickling tears. 
 When from his prince he did depart. 
 
 And from his royal country peers. 
 " And thou," quoth he, " Almighty God, 23 
 
 " Let him a death moft fliameful dye 
 " Which is the caufe of mine abode, 
 
 " Bereav'd of my king's company !" 
 Some tho't to th' king of Scots that he 24 
 
 Did wifli fuch fad untimely fate. 
 And fome to the earl of Derby'* 
 
 With whom he had a great debate. 
 
EJje Ballati of Jlotilion Jielti. 
 
 The earl did then his tenants all 25 
 
 In mufters fair and brave ele6t, 
 And on his way, by journeys fmall, 
 
 To Pomfret caftle did direft. 
 Then did he fend Sir William Bulmer'^ 26 
 
 And bad him on the borders lye, 
 With ordinance and other geer 
 
 Each houfe of fence'^ to fortify. 
 And bad him call the borderers bould, 27 
 
 And hold with him in readinefs, 
 And get him word with fpeed he could, 
 
 If that the Scots meant his diflrefs. 
 Then cauf'd he watch in every ftreet, 28 
 
 And pofts to run thro' downs and dales ; 
 So what was wrought, he knew of it, 
 
 From Carlifle to the coaft of Wales. 
 When flying fame, that monflrous wight, 29 
 
 With hundred wings was nimbly flown, 
 And in the court of Scotland light, 
 
 And all abroad was blaz'd and blown, 
 Of great King Henry's enterprize, 30 
 
 And how he forc'd was into France''' 
 With all his peers, in princely wife, 
 
 To bring that land to complaifance : 
 England to over-run with rage 31 
 
 The Scots then meant, as was their guife. 
 Still as the king was under age, 
 
 Or occupy'd fome other wife. 
 
E\)t IBallati of Jlolitron Jielti. 
 
 King JamesV^ courage did increafe, 32 
 
 And of his counfel crav'd to know 
 If he had better Uve in peace, 
 
 Or fight againft his brother-in-law ? 
 " Alas !" faid he, " my heart is fore, 33 
 
 " And care conftraineth me to weep, 
 " That ever I to England fwore 
 
 " A league or love a day to keep. 
 "Had I not entred in that band, 34 
 
 " I fwear now by this burnifh'd blade, 
 " England and Scotland both one land 
 
 " And kingdom one I could have made. 
 " That realm we foon fhould over-run, 35 
 
 " That England, when this age is past, 
 " As to our elders they have done, 
 
 " Should homage do us to the laft." 
 Then flood there up a baron flout, 36 
 
 The lufty lord of Douglas"' blood, 
 " My liege," quoth he, "have you no doubt, 
 
 " But mark my words with mirthful mood. 
 " The league is broke, no doubt you need, 37 
 
 " Believe me, liege, my words are true. 
 " What was the Englifh Admiral's"" deed, 
 
 " When Andrew Barton^' bold he flew ? 
 " Your fhips and armour too he took, 38 
 
 " And fince, their king did nothing fear 
 " To fend his aid againft the duke 
 
 " Of Gelders,"" your own coufin dear. 
 
E\}t Ballao of Jflotitroit Jteltr. 
 
 " Hath not the baftard Heron'^ (lain 39 
 
 " Your warden,^* with his fpiteful fpear ? 
 " The league and peace therefore are vain, 
 
 " My hege, you nothing have to fear." 
 " Then manful MaxwelP^ answered sone, 40 
 
 " My liege, the league is broke by right ; 
 " For th' Englifh King ought not to have gone 
 
 "Againft your friend in France to fight. 
 " Have you in league not entred late 41 
 
 " With Lewis,^^ chofen the French king ? 
 " And now you fee what great debate 
 
 " Betwixt the king and him doth fpring. 
 " What greater kindnefs could you fhewe 42 
 
 " Unto your friend, the king of France, 
 " Than in Englifli blood your blade imbrue, 
 
 " Againft their land to lift your lance ? 
 " You know what hurt to you was done 43 
 
 " By Englifh kings in times of old : 
 " Your borders burn'd, and Barwick"' town 
 
 " Still by ftrong hand they from you hold. 
 " Wherefore more time let's not confume 44 
 
 " But fiercely fight that land againe." 
 " And then flood up the proud lord Hume,^^ 
 
 " Of Scotland the chief chamberlaine. 
 " My liege," quoth he, " in all your life 45 
 
 " More lucky fate could never fall ; 
 " For now that land with little grief 
 
 " Unto your crown you conquer fhall. 
 
E^z ISallat) of Jlotition JielD. 
 
 " For England's king, you undenland, 46 
 
 " To France is paft with all his peers ; 
 " There's none at home left in the land 
 
 " But joult-head monks and burften freers. 
 " Or ragged rufticks without rules, 47 
 
 " Or priefts prating for pudding fhives, 
 " Or millners madder than their mules, 
 
 " Or wanton clerks waking their wives. 
 " There's not a lord left in England, 48 
 
 " But all are gone beyond the fea, 
 " Both knight and baron with his band, 
 
 "With ordinance or artillery." 
 The king then call'd to Dellamount^^ 49 
 
 Which bodword out of France did bring ; 
 Quoth he, " the nobles' names pray note, 
 
 " Who are encamp'd with th' Englifh king." 
 " That will I do, my liege," quoth he, 50 
 
 " As many as I have at hert : 
 " First there's the great earl of Derbye 
 
 "With one that's called lord Herbert. 3° 
 "There is anearl of antient race, 51 
 
 " Plum'd up in proud and rich array ; 
 " His banner cafts a glittering grace, 
 
 "A half-moon in a golden ray." 
 " That is the noble Piercy^' plain," 52 
 
 The King did fay, and gave a flamp, 
 " There is not fuch a lord again, 
 
 " No, not in all King Henry's camp." 
 
 g^ !■il ||p « T 
 
Eljt Ballali of JlotttiDn JFtfltf. 
 
 " There is a lord who bold doth bear 53 
 
 " A talbot brave, a burly tyke, 
 " Whofe fathers ftruck France fo with fear 
 
 " As made poor wives and children fkrike." 
 The king then anfwered at one word, 54 
 
 " That is the earl of Shrewfburye."" 
 " There is likewife a lufty lord 
 
 " Which called is the famed Darcye.^* 
 " There's Dudley^^ and brave Dellaware^^ 55 
 
 " And Druery,37 great lords all three ; 
 " The duke of Buckingham^^ is there, 
 
 " Lord Cobham" and lord Willoughbye/" 
 " There is the earl of Effex*' gay, 56 
 
 " And Stafford ftout,^' earl of Wiltfhire ; 
 " There is the earl of Kent, lord Gray,''^ 
 
 " With haughty Haftings,^ hot as fire. 
 " There is the marquefs Dorfef*^ brave, 57 
 
 " Fitzwater**^ and Fitzleigh,'*Mords great ; 
 " Of doughty knights the lufly lave 
 
 " I never could by name repeat. 
 " There is a knight of the north countrye 58 
 
 " Which leads a lufhy plump of fpears ; 
 " I know not what his name Ihould be, 
 
 " A boyft'rous bull all black he bears." 
 Lord Hume then anfwered, Loudon hight,*^ 59 
 
 " This fame is Sir John Nevil*' bold ; 
 " King Henry hath not so hardy a knight 
 
 " In all his camp, my coat I'll hold. 
 
lo Cije Ballai of j)^Iotit!on JielH. 
 
 " He doth maintain, without all doubt, 60 
 
 " The earl of Weftmoreland's eftate ; 
 " I know of old his ftomach ftout, 
 
 " In England is not left his mate.'' 
 Then the king afk'd his lords all round 61 
 
 If wars or peace they did prefer ? 
 They cry'd, and made the hall to found, 
 
 " Let peace go back, and let's have war. 
 " Our armour is for ufage marr'd, 62 
 
 " Both helmet, habergeon, and creft ; 
 " Our flartling naggs, in flable fpar'd, 
 
 " Are waxen wild with too much reft. 
 " Our flaves, that were both tall and ftraight 63 
 
 " Wax crooked and are caft each where : 
 " Therefore in England let's go fight, 
 
 " Our booties brave from them to bear." 
 The king rejoyced then to fee 64 
 
 His lords fo lively hearts to have, 
 And to their words did foon agree, 
 
 Complying to their pleafures brave. 
 To Lyon king at arms^" he cry'd, 65 
 
 And took to him a letter broad ; 
 Quoth he, " no longer look thou bide, 
 
 " But towards France foon take thy road. 
 " To Terwin'^' town take thou thy way, 66 
 
 " And greet well there my brother-in-law, 
 " And bid him there no longer ftay, 
 
 " But homeward to his country draw. 
 
Eije BallaK of flolilioix JielH. n 
 
 " And bid him ceafe his furious force 67 
 
 " Againft my friend the king of France, 
 " For fear domeftick wars prove worfe 
 
 "When in his kingdom I advance. 
 " And fummon him foon to return, 68 
 
 " Left that our power we ply apace, 
 " With iire and fword we beat and burn 
 
 " His men and land in little fpace." 
 Then Lyon made him reverence 69 
 
 And with his coat of arms him deckt ; 
 He hal'd up fail, and towards France 
 
 He did his way with fpeed direct. 
 
 THE SECOND FIT. 
 
 Meanwhile the king did letters write, 
 
 Which fwifteft poft did nimbly bear 
 To all his lords which had delight 
 
 With him in England arms to wear. 
 Then every lord and knight each where 
 
 And barons bold in muflers met. 
 Each man made hafte to mend his gear, 
 
 And fome their rufly pikes did whet. 
 
,„,. 
 
 12 Eije BallaU of JloMon Jielli. 
 
 Some made a mell of maffy lead 
 
 Which iron all about did bind ; 
 Some made ftrong helmets for the head, 
 
 And fome their grifly gifarings grind ; 
 Some made their battle-axes bright ; 
 
 Some from their bills did rub the ruft ; 
 Some made long pikes and lances light, 
 
 Some pikeforks for to join and thrufl ; 
 Some did a fpear for weapon wield ; 
 
 Some did their lufty geldings try ; 
 Some all with gold did gild their fhield, 
 
 Some did with divers colours dye. 
 The plowmen hard their teams could take 
 
 And to hard harnefs them convert, 
 Their fliares defenfive armour make, 
 
 To fave the head and fhield the hert. 
 Dame Ceres did unfwerv'd remain. 
 
 The fertile fields did lie untill'd ; 
 Outrageous Mars fo fore did reign 
 
 That Scotland was with fury fill'd. 
 The king of Scots, then much inflam'd 
 
 With joy to fee himfelf obey'd, 
 He did command his chamberlaine 
 
 In England all the gang to lead. 
 The chamberlaine, lord Hume, in haft, 
 
 Marchwarden he o'er eaft alfo — 
 Within the Englifh borders' breaft 
 
 With full eight thoufand men did go. 
 
Ef)0 aSallati of Jlotition JielK. 13 
 
 And enter in Northumberland 10 
 
 With banners bravely blaz'd and borne, 
 And finding none them to withftand, 
 
 Did ftraight deftroy both hay and corne. 
 They fpoil'd and ravag'd all abroad, 1 1 
 
 And on each fide in booties brousrht : 
 The coarfer loons got geldings good, 
 
 And droves of kine and cattle caught. 
 Moft ftately halls and buildings gay 12 
 
 With facrilegious hands they burn ; — 
 And this has always been their way. 
 
 Whenever they could ferve their turn. 
 But happy Harrad^- church i' the hill, 13 
 
 Thou always 'fcaped their barb'rous rage : 
 As thou wert once, fo art thou flill. 
 
 The wonder of the prefent age. 
 There judge Gafcoigne," once wifely grave, 14 
 
 With his fair dame entomb'd doth lye ; 
 And there lies Rudimond^* so brave. 
 
 In armour, by his familye ; 
 With other noble perfons too, 15 
 
 For valour fam'd and piety : 
 Their monuments you now may view, 
 
 Moft fweet and lovely to the eye. 
 But to return, for I digrefs : 16 
 
 The Scots thus having over-run 
 The bordering parts and filled with preys, 
 
 They thought to Scotland to return. 
 
14 ®^f}c Ballatr of JlotiBon JtclH. 
 
 Sir William Bulmer being told 17 
 
 Of this great rout and wild array, 
 Did ftrait forecaft all means he could 
 
 The Scots in their return to flay. 
 Two hundred men himfelf did lead ; 18 
 
 To him there came the borderers ftout, 
 And divers gentlemen with fpeed 
 
 Repair'd to him with horfe and foot. 
 They were not all a thoufand men, [9 
 
 But knowing where the Scots would come. 
 The borderers beft their coafts did ken. 
 
 And hid them in a field of broom. 
 The Scots came fcouring down fo faft, 20 
 
 And proudly pricked up with their prey ; 
 Thinking their perils all were pafl. 
 
 They ftraggling ran out of their way. 
 The Englifh men burft out apace 21 
 
 And fkirmifhed with the Scots anon : 
 There was fierce fighting face to face, 
 
 And many geldings made to groan. 
 There men might fee fpears fly in fpells 22 
 
 And tall men tumbling on the foil ; 
 And many a horfe turn'd up his heels, — 
 
 Outrageous Mars kept fuch a coil. 
 The Scots their flrength did long extend, 23 
 
 And broken ranks did flill renew ; 
 But the Englifli archers, in the end, 
 
 With arrows fhot mofl fore they flew. 
 
K\)z Ballati of flonnon JtriU. 
 
 The Englifh fpears, on the other fide, 24 
 
 Amongfl the Scots did fiercely fling, 
 Right through their ranks did ratthng ride 
 
 And chafe them thro' mofs, mire, and ling. 
 The chamberlaine, viewing this chance, 25 
 
 And feeing his hofl all put to flight. 
 Did with the foremofl forth advance, 
 
 But happy in his horfe fo light ; 
 For ftraight he flew, when he perceiv'd 26 
 
 His banner-bearer down was beat. 
 The Englifh then their fpoil receiv'd, 
 
 Befides a ftore of geldings great. 
 Six hundred Scots were flain that day, 27 
 
 And near that number prifoners ta'en ; 
 But of the Englifli, brave and gay, 
 
 There were no more than fixty flain. 
 In Auguft month this broil befell, 28 
 
 Wherein the Scots loft fo much blood ; 
 And mournful, when the tale they tell. 
 
 They call it now The Devil's Road. 
 Thus while the Scots, both near and far, 29 
 
 Were through all Scotland occupy'd 
 In framing weapons, fit for war, 
 
 And muft'ring men on ev'ry fide ; 
 By this time came the herald fent 30 
 
 Before the town of Terwin high. 
 There to King Henry foon he went, 
 
 And bow'd him low upon his knee. 
 
i6 E\it Ballati of JloUtion JtElH. 
 
 Thus reverent!)' the king did greet 31 
 
 Who took from him his letters large, 
 And then, as order'd, what was writ 
 
 In open words he did difcharge. 
 The letters soon were looked upon 32 
 
 And in King Henry's fight peruf'd ; 
 King James' his mind he knew full foon, 
 
 And found himfelf moft fore abuf'd, 
 Who fummon'd him his fiege to raife, 33 
 
 And ftay thofe wars he took in hand ; 
 Or elfe with blood he'd pave his ways, 
 
 And ftraight invade his native land. 
 King Henry's heart began to rife, 34 
 
 And to the herald thus did fay, 
 " Thy mafter thus I did furmife 
 
 " Would in our abfence partly play. 
 " Indeed he doth not now digrefs 35 
 
 " From his old fires, never brave ; 
 " But if he do m)- land diflrefs, 
 
 " I hope he welcome hard fhall have. 
 " For in my land I left a lord 36 
 
 " Who, aiding of my royal queen, 
 " Will ftay your prince at point of fword, 
 
 " Whofe blade was ever fierce and keen. 
 " Let him not deem fo deflitute 37 
 
 " My land of lords and valiant knights ; 
 " For if he dare to profecute, 
 
 "He there fhall find some warlike wights, 
 
Efje Ballati of JlotiUoit JTieltr. 17 
 
 " Who'll fhed for me their purple gore, 38 
 
 " And all his ftreaming banners rend ; 
 " They'll fend upon him many a fhower 
 
 " Of arrows, e'er he pafs the Trent. 
 " For fince he perjur'd now doth prove, 39 
 
 "And doth fo fmall efleem his oath, 
 " Ouf fiege we will not ceafe to move, 
 
 " Be he fo never mad or wroth. 
 " But here a valiant vow we'll make : 40 
 
 " At what time as we fhall return, 
 " All Scotland we will harafs and fack 
 
 " And never ceafe to fpoil and burn, 
 " Nor never peace with him contrive, 41 
 
 " Nor never league nor union make, 
 " While one falfe Scot is left alive, 
 
 " And till the land be brought to wrack. 
 Then he to th' king of Scots did write 42 
 
 A letter, banifhing all fears, 
 That he, for all his ire and fpite 
 
 In France would ftill proceed his wars ; 
 Then gave it to the herald's hand, 43 
 
 Befides with it a rich reward ; 
 Who haflen'd to his native land, 
 
 To fee how with his king it far'd. 
 But while he waited for the wind, 44 
 
 And for his fhip did things ordain, 
 For all his hafte he came behind. 
 
 And never faw his prince again. 
 
1 8 CfjE Ballati of jFloHtion jFtelB. 
 
 King Henry then the Scottifh bill 45 
 
 Unto the earl of Surrey fent 
 To Pomfret, where abiding ftill 
 
 He bid him be for battle bent. 
 
 The earl did all things ftraight provide 46 
 
 The Scotch king's purpofe to refifl 
 Throughout all Scotland far and wide, 
 
 And all was done that he did lift. j 
 
 Lord Dacres too, he did perceive 47 i 
 
 The Scots' intention manifeft ; \ 
 
 He knew their meetings, mufters brave, ' 
 
 And daily riding without reft. ,i 
 
 The truth whereof he fent ftraitway, 48 [ 
 
 And told the earl of Surrey fage : 
 
 That time was not for to delay, ! 
 
 But foldiers raife for to engage. j 
 
 Which when the earl did underftand, 49 j 
 
 He letters fent both far and near j 
 
 To all the nobles in the land, | 
 
 That they their forces might prepare, 1 
 
 And tell what numbers they could make 50 
 
 Of valiant men, all well arra}'d ; ! 
 
 Then with Sir Philip Tilne}-'-' fpake, i 
 
 How they their wages might be paid. I 
 
 Then after this for ordinance fent c i ! 
 
 I 
 Unto Sir Nicholas Appleyard,^^ 
 
 Who did accordingly confent 
 
 And towards him apace prepar'd. 
 
Eije Ballao of JloUtroa JFielU. 19 
 
 With culverines and mortars^'' great, 52 
 
 And double cannons two or three ; 
 He brought them on by flee and cart 
 
 To Durham in the north countrye. 
 The noble lord then letters wrote 53 
 
 Unto each caftle, fort, and hold, 
 That they fhould furnifh them with fhot. 
 
 And fortify their bulwarks bold, 
 Who anfwered all, with ftomachs flout, 54 
 
 And every captain with his train. 
 That they would keep the Scots quite out 
 
 Until the king return'd again ; 
 Which anfwer of the captains keen 55 
 
 The noble earl did much delight. 
 But what the Scots this while did mean. 
 
 And of King James, I mean to write. 
 For after he to his brother-in-law 56 
 
 Defiance into France had fent, 
 His nobles all to him did draw, 
 
 Well bufked and for battle bent. 
 And thus array'd in armour bright 57 
 
 They met in Edinborough town : 
 There was many a lord, and many a knight 
 
 And baron brave, of high renown. 
 Of prelates proud a populous lave, 58 
 
 And abbots boldly there were known. 
 With bifhop of St. Andrew" brave, 
 
 Who was King James's baflard fon. 
 
20 E\}t Ballal) of Jlotitfon JicHi. 
 
 Surelye t'was an unfeemly fight, 59 
 
 And quite againfl our Chriftian laws, 
 To fee a prelate prefs to fight, 
 
 And that, too, in a wicked caufe. 
 Are thefe the Scots' religious rules 60 
 
 Who taught the priefts fuch pranks perverfe : 
 To march forth muft'red on their mules. 
 
 And, foldier-like, to fue god Mars ? 
 The meffenger of Chrift, St. Paul, 61 
 
 Taught them to fhoot at no fuch mark ; 
 Peter, nor Chrift's apoftles all. 
 
 They never led them in the dark. 
 Their patron fo did not them learn, 62 
 
 St. Andrew,^^ with his fliored crofs ; 
 But rather Trimon of Ouitorn,^' 
 
 Or Doffin,*^" demi-god of Rofs. 
 This bifhop bold, this baftard bleft, 63 
 
 With other bifliops in his band, 
 And abbots bold as all the reft, 
 
 For ljeaL;le rods took bills in hand. 
 And ever) lord with him did lead 64 
 
 A mighty band for battel preft ; 
 In numbers great they did extend, 
 
 A hundred thoufand men at leaft. 
 King James for joy began to fmile, 65 i 
 
 So great an army to behold. 
 Who for to ferve him thought no toil, 
 
 But blazen'd forth his banners bold. 
 
E\)Z Ballati of Jlotition jFielti. 21 
 
 Each lord went on then with his band, 66 
 
 And every captain with his train ; 
 The mufick echo'd thro' the land, 
 
 And brazen trumpets blow'd amain. 
 The drums did beat with warlick found, 67 
 
 And banners bravely waving wide ; 
 Men fcarce could view the fruitful ground 
 
 But foldiers arm'd on every fide. 
 In midft of ranks there rode the king 68 
 
 On ftately fteed, which graceful ftampt : 
 A goodly fight to fee him fling. 
 
 And how his foaming bits he champt. 
 Thus did King James moft gorgeous ride, 69 
 
 A pleafure to his noble peers ; 
 He had a heart puffed up with pride. 
 
 And was a prince that banifli'd fears. 
 Alas ! he thought himfelf too ftrong, 70 
 
 Having fo great a multitude ; 
 But Providence, when kings do wrong, 
 
 Their mighty power can elude. 
 He thought no king in Chriftendom 71 
 
 In field to meet him was of might ; 
 No, not an emperour of Rome 
 
 Had been of force with him to fight. 
 Nor Hercules, nor Haniball, 72 
 
 The Soldan, Sophy, nor the Turk, 
 None of the mighty monarchs all : 
 
 Such valiant blood did in him work. 
 
2 2 E\}t Ballati of Jlotition JMU. 
 
 But yet for all his armed host, 73 
 
 His puffed up pride and haughty heart, 
 Full foon abated was his ghoft, 
 
 And brought to London in a cart. 
 'Twas in the midft of harveft tide, 74 
 
 Augufb the two and twentieth day. 
 That this proud prince, replete with pride, 
 
 To th' Englifh borders burft his way. 
 Where pills he pulled down apace, 75 
 
 And ftately building brought to ground. 
 The Scots, like loons void of all grace. 
 
 Religion's precepts fore did wound : 
 Fair matrons they did force each where, 76 
 
 And ravish'd maidens fwect and mild, 
 In flames the houfes made appear, 
 
 And murder'd many a man and child. 
 But how the Englifh did prepare yy 
 
 To fight the Scots with hand and heart, 
 Their wit and valour will appear 
 
 U you'll but read the second part. 
 
Ef)e jFamous H^tstorg or BallaU 
 
 BATTLES FOUGHT IN FLODDON FIELD, 
 
 StaUen fvuwt an 
 gtttcteMt piattwscrfpt tvijxclj tva» tranocvlbeir btj 
 
 late ^cljooiwrtotei.- iti Sngieton, Hxxvfealjire. 
 
 ^art II. 
 
 * THE TH IRD FIT, 
 
 (To a plcafant Tune.) 
 
 'Twas thus the king's express command, 
 
 To wafte with cruel fword and flame ; 
 A field of blood he made the land, 
 
 Till he to Norham'"' cafl:le came, 
 Which foon with fiege he did befet, 
 
 And trenches digg'd without delay ; 
 With bombard fhot the walls he beat. 
 
 And to aflault it did effay. 
 The captain great with courage flout 
 
 His fortrefs fiercely did defend ; 
 But for a while he lafhed out, 
 
 Till he his ordinance did fpend, 
 
24 E\}c Ballali of Jflotition Jielti. 
 
 His powder did profufely wafte, 4 
 
 His arrows hal'd out every hour, 
 So that he wanted at the laft, 
 
 And at the laft had none to pour. 
 But yet five days he did defend, 5 
 
 Tho' with affaults they him affail'd. 
 And all their total ftrength extend : 
 
 But all their power had not prevail'd, 
 Was it not for a trait'rous thief 6 
 
 Who came King James's face before, 
 That in that hold had got relief 
 
 The fpace of thirty years and more. 
 " I fay," quoth he, " King James, my liege ! 7 
 
 " ^ (uir hrave affaults are all in vain : 
 " Long ma\- \-ou hold a tedious fieee, 
 
 " \'et all this while can get no gain. 
 " But what reward Ihall I receixe," 8 
 
 (_)uoth he, " exijrefs and fpeak anon, 
 '' And 1 fhall let noli plain percei\-e 
 
 " How that this caftle ma)- be won ?" 
 " If that to pafs thou bring this can," 9 
 
 The king did fay where he did ftand, 
 " I fhall make you a gentleman, 
 
 " And li\'ings give thee in our land." 
 " O king !" quoth he, " then quit this place, 10 
 
 " And down to yonder vallies draw : 
 " The walls fo fhall you rend and raze, 
 
 " Your batteries will bring them low." 
 
SCijE iSallati of JloHtion Jlelti. ^5 
 
 Which as he faid, fo did the king; 1 1 
 
 Againft the walls his ord'nance bent : 
 It was a wretched, difmal thing 
 
 To fee how foon the walls were rent ; 
 Which made the captain fore afraid, 1 2 
 
 Beholding how the walls they reel'd ; 
 His weapons all then down he laid. 
 
 And to King James did humbly yield. 
 The Scots then flraitway did pour in, 13 
 
 And plied apace unto their prey : 
 Look what was worth one point or pin, 
 
 You need not bid them take away. 
 So when the Scots the walls had won, 14 
 
 And rifled every nook and place, 
 The traytor came to th' king anon. 
 
 But for reward met with difgrace. 
 The king then aflc'd him by and by 15 
 
 Where he was born, and in what town ? 
 " A Scotsman, Sir !" he did reply, 
 
 Such anfwer gave the treacherous loon. 
 The king then afk'd him, meek and mild, 16 
 
 For how long he had lodged there ? 
 " Even," quoth he, "fmce but a child, 
 
 "A good deal more than thirty year." 
 " Why," quo' the king, " haft thou fo wrought 1 7 
 
 " Unto thy friends this frantick rage, 
 " Who in this caftle thee upbrought, 
 
 "And always gave thee meat and wage ? 
 
26 ffl'fjr Ballati of JlotiBon JtelU. 
 
 " But fince thy heart is falfify'd i8 
 
 " To them who gave thee meat and fee, 
 " It is a token to be try'd, 
 
 " Thou never canft prove true to me. 
 " Therefore for this thy traiterous trick (9 
 
 " Thou fhalt be tyed in a trace ! 
 " Hangman, therefore," quoth he, " be quick, 
 
 " The groom fhall have no better place." 
 What he did fay, forthwith was wrought ; 20 
 
 The tray tor liad his jufl defert, 
 Although the king himfelf was naught, 
 
 And prov'd deceitful in his hert. 
 By this time came the flying ports, 21 
 
 Which made the earl to underftand 
 How that the king of Scotland's hofts 
 
 Already ent'red had the land ; 
 Which when the earl of Surrey knew, 22 
 
 It was but vain to bid him hafte : 
 He fent to all his friends moft true, 
 
 That they their men fhould mufter fart ; 
 And fhortly fent to every fliire, 23 
 
 That on September the firft day, 
 Each gentleman, lord, knight, and fquire, 
 
 Should to Newcaftle take their way. 
 Then with five hundred foldiers ftout 24 
 
 Himfelf appearing in renown, 
 He never ftay'd to reft his foot, 
 
 Until he came to Durham town. 
 
Eije aSallaH of fflotitiait jfizVa. 27 
 
 There he devoutly did hear prayers, 
 
 And worfhip'd God his Maker dear, 
 Who banifh'd from him cares and fears : 
 
 St. Cuthbert's'''' banner he did bear. 
 Then flrait he to Newcaftle came, 26 
 
 Of Auguft on the thirtieth day, 
 There many a nobleman of fame 
 
 To him repair'd without delay. 
 The valiant Dacres* him did meet, 27 
 
 And brought with him a noble band 
 Of warlike men right well compleat, 
 
 From Weflmoreland and Cumberland. 
 Sir Marmaduke Conftable'^ ftout 28 
 
 Attended with his lovely fons ; 
 Sir William Bulmer,'^ with his rout ; 
 
 Lord Clifford" with his clapping guns. 
 Then from Newcaftle foon he went, 29 
 
 And took his way to Anwick town, 
 That weary men, with travel fpent, 
 
 And weather-beaten, might have roon. 
 Then might you fee on every fide 30 
 
 The ways all fiU'd with men of war. 
 With fhining ftreamers waving wide, 
 
 And helmets glittering from afar. 
 From Lancafhire and Chelhire too, 31 
 
 To Stanley came a noble train 
 To Hornby, from whence he withdrew. 
 
 And forward fet with all his main. 
 
1. 
 
 28 Eijf BallaU of JlotrBon Jtrlti. 
 
 What banners brave before him blaz'd 32 
 
 The people muf'd where he did pafs ; 
 Poor hufbandmen were much amaz'd, 
 
 And women, wond'ring, cry'd " Alas !" 
 Young wives did weep with woful chear, 33 
 
 To fee their friends in harnefs dreft ; 
 Some rent their cloaths, fome tore their hair, 
 
 Some held their babes unto their breaft. 
 And woful mothers mourning flood, 34 
 
 Viewing their fons in harnefs horfe. 
 And fhouting fhrieked when forth they rode, 
 
 And of their lives took little force.^'* 
 But who can plain exprefs with pen, 35 
 
 What maffes''^^ faid on hallow'd ftone, 
 What prayers of religious men, 
 
 \\"hat facred fervice eke was done. 
 That Stanley might come fafe awa)-, 36 
 
 And victor valiantly return. 
 The bells did found a-night and day, 
 
 And holy fires bright did burn. 
 Men with grc)- beards drew to their beds, 37 
 
 And faft their pra)'ers they poured out ; 
 Old wives for woe did wag their heads. 
 
 And I, lints were foiiglit on naked foot. 
 But Stanle}- over Stainmore'''' ftrait 38 
 
 Did pafs, and rcfling there did view 
 A banner brave borne up on hight, 
 Whereunder went a warlike crew. 
 
E\)z Ballati of Jlotifton Jieltr, 29 
 
 " What lufly troop in yon I fee ?" 39 
 
 Sir Edward Stanley did enquire. 
 A yeoman faid, " It is, I fee, 
 
 " Bryan TunftalP^ that bold efquire ; 
 " For in his banner I behold 40 
 
 " A curling cock, as tho' he'd crow ; 
 " He brings with him his tenants bold, 
 
 " A hundred men at leafl, I know." 
 Then Stanley faid, as there he flood, 41 
 
 " Would Chrifl he would but take our part, 
 " His clean and undefiled blood 
 
 " Good fpeed doth promife at my heart. 
 " Blaze out, therefore, I bid you, foon 42 
 
 " The earl of Darby's banner brave ; 
 " By chance with us he will be one 
 
 "When it in fight he fhall perceive." 
 But Tunftall took no heed that tide ; 43 
 
 Without faluting forth he pafh : 
 Upon the valiant Howard's fide 
 
 His faithful heart he fixed faft. 
 And then again faid Stanley brave, 44 
 
 " O valiant lads, draw up your hearts ! 
 " Be not amaz'd, look not fo grave, 
 
 " Tho' Tunftall will not take our parts, 
 " But forward fet without delay ; 45 
 
 " Unto the Howard's let's make haft." 
 And fo they wearied kept their way, 
 
 Till they to Anwick came at laft ; 
 
30 Efje Ballati of jFlotition JtclK. 
 
 Whofe coming greatly did rejoice 46 
 
 The earl and all his companye. 
 None but the eagle bare the voice, 
 
 With flapping wings as he would fly. 
 There did the army much increafe, 47 
 
 Although there was the mofl: extreams ; 
 For rain down rattling ne'er did ceafe, 
 
 Till bubbling brooks burfl; mighty fl;reams. 
 Such blufl;'ring winds befides there were, 48 
 
 That day and night the air did found ; 
 Which put the earl into great fear 
 
 Left his fon admiral" fhould be drown'd. 
 Who, at his parting, promif'd plight 49 
 
 Unto his father, if alive, 
 At Newcaftle with all his miaht 
 
 o 
 
 For his affiftance fhould arrive. 
 Which promife he did fully keep ; 50 
 
 Such kindly friendfliip Neptune fliow'd, 
 As to conduct him o'er the deep, 
 
 And his defires juft beflow'd. 
 Then foldiers foon he fet on land, 5 1 
 
 And to his father faft he hj'd ; 
 Such warlike wights in worthy band, 
 
 Two thoufand men in arms well try'd. 
 With captains moft courageous keen, 52 
 
 At Anwick they arriv'd at laft. 
 Who when the earl's army they had feen, 
 
 With fudden fear they were aghaft. 
 
EfjE Ballali of Jlotition JidU. 31 
 
 Seeing their armour black as ink, 53 
 
 Some faid it was fome Scottifh band ; 
 And divers did efteem and think 
 
 They were fome force from foreign land. 
 Some took their harnefs, fome their horfe 54 
 
 And forward hafted as to fight ; 
 But when they faw St. George's crofs 
 
 And Englifh arms borne up on hight, 
 Some faid it was a jolly crew 55 
 
 The king had fent from France that tide. 
 The fouthern men the truth foon knew, 
 
 And loud " Lord Admiral " they cry'd. 
 Who when the earl of Surrey faw, 56 
 
 He thanked God with hert fo mild, 
 And hands for joy to heaven did throw. 
 
 His fon was fav'd from waters wild. 
 A merry meeting there was feen, 57 
 
 For firft they kifl, and then embrac'd ; 
 For joy the tears fell from their eyen ; 
 
 All forepaft fears were then defac'd. 
 Then cauf'd the earl each captain count 58 
 
 Under their wings what foldiers were ; 
 Which done, the number did but mount 
 
 To fix and twenty thoufand there. 
 The earl then called a council fone 59 
 
 Of prudent lords and captains wife. 
 And how the battle might be done. 
 
 He bid them fhew their beft device. 
 
32 E\)t Ballati of Jlotiliou Jielli. 
 
 Some faid too fmall their number was 60 
 
 To atchieve fo great an enterprize ; 
 Some councell'd pofts back for to pafs 
 
 For aid, and caufe the counties rife ; 
 And from the fouth the queen, fome faid, 61 
 
 A band of foldiers foon would fend ; 
 And will'd to ftay, for while they ftay'd, 
 
 Their powers daily mii;ht amend. 
 Somu faid the Scots ftraitway would fail, 62 
 
 And powers daily would diminifli ; 
 Wherefore to ftay was their counfeil, 
 
 And thus the earl they did admonifli. 
 Then did the admiral ftart in ire, 63 
 
 And ftamping ftood with ftomach hot ; 
 " Why, Sir !" faid he there to his fire, 
 
 " Hath cowardice lent you his coat ? 
 " Let ne'er King Henry hear for fliame 64 
 
 " That you fliould play this daftard part ; 
 " N(jr ever blown by trump of fame 
 
 " That you did bear a coward's heart ! 
 " Hath not King Henr)- lelt you here 65 
 
 " His governour, to rule the land ? 
 " Not doubting but without all feare, 
 
 " The treacherous Scots you would withftand. 
 " Think of )our father,'^'* tho' his chance 66 
 
 "It was to fall at Bofworth feild, 
 " Tho' he his life, by Stanley's lance, 
 
 ■ With honourable wounds did jeild. 
 
€\it Ballalr of JlotiKon JielH. 33 
 
 " Would God that Edward,'^^ brother dear, 67 
 
 " Was here alive this prefent day : 
 "No armed foes could make him fear, 
 
 " Nor in a camp, like coward, ftay. 
 " What royal fame, what high renown, 68 
 
 " Hath he left to his line and race ! 
 " What ample glory would him crown, 
 
 "If life had lafted longer fpace 
 " The feas he did both fweep and fcour, 69 
 
 " No pyrate proud durft 'pear in fight, 
 " Not pyrate John," for all his power, 
 
 " That great renowned Lothian knight. 
 " How oft the royal fleet of France 70 
 
 "In confli6ls cruel by him was griev'd ! 
 " If he had 'fcaped that fatal chance, 
 
 " What glorious a6ls might have atchiev'd ! 
 " No multitudes made him difmay'd ; 71 
 
 "Nor numbers great his flomach 'fwage. 
 " Great fhame would then on us be laid, 
 
 " And to our offspring in each age ; 
 " Your father's fame would foon be loft, 72 
 
 " And all his worthy acts no more ; 
 " Your honour, like a flitting ghoft, 
 
 " Nor yet your fons could e'er reftore : 
 " If here ye loit'ring lie like loons, 73 
 
 " And do not fight the Scots again : 
 " For don't you hear how Englifh towns 
 
 " Are burnt, and fuckling babes are flain ? 
 
34 C{)i: Ballatf nf Jlotition Jtellr. 
 
 " They daily pilfer every place 74 
 
 " And fpoil the people all about : 
 "Wherefore let's flay no longer fpace, 
 
 " But now ftep forth with ftomachs ftout." 
 
 THE FOURTH FIT. 
 
 The Earl of Surrey then reply'd 
 
 And to his warlike fon did fay, 
 " No baflifulncfs doth make me 'bide, 
 
 " Nor ftomach faint doth make me ftay. 
 " The caufe is for no cowardice, 
 
 " So Iohl;' time here to make delay ; 
 " But that I fear this enterprize 
 
 " Will proxe no childilli fport or play. 
 " Great counfel then muft be embrac'd ; 
 
 " Then let us careful think upon, 
 " \\' hich w a)' our cards to count and cafl, 
 
 " For ;_;reaL's the bullnefs to be done. 
 " Too hard)' oft good hap doth hazard, 
 
 " ^Vnd over-bold oft is not beft ; 
 " And that I'xe prov'd by my {on Edward. ^^ 
 ■' Who e\'er was too bold off Breft. 
 
Ef)f Ballao of iFlotrUon JieHi. 35 
 
 " He'd been a living man this day, 5 
 
 "If he with counfel wife had wrought ; 
 " But he was drown'd in Bartrumb's''" bay : 
 
 " His rafhnefs to this end him brought. 
 " IVIy father, at king Richard's feild,^' 6 
 
 " Under great Stanley's'^ lance lay flain, 
 " And I did there a captive yeild : 
 
 " Our manhood great got us this gain. 
 " We might have 'fcap'd that fcurvy day, 7 
 
 " If warning could our wits have bet : 
 " A friend of ours, to caufe us ftay, 
 
 " Upon my father's gate had fet 
 " A certain fcroll, whofe fcripture faid : — 8 
 
 " Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold ! 
 "And underneath in verfe was laid : — 
 
 " Dickon thy mafter's bought and fold ! 
 "My father fighting fierce was flain, 9 
 
 " King Richard 'reaved of life and crown : 
 " Such goodly guerdon oft they gain, 
 
 " Who rafhly run to get renown. 
 " For fee the duke of York was brought 10 
 
 " At Wakefield to his fatal fall, 
 " Who might have 'fcap'd, if he had wrought 
 
 " The counfel wife of David Hall." 
 " I read of conquerors and kings 1 1 
 
 " For lack of counfel caft away : 
 " Now fmce at hand fuch danger hings, 
 
 " Our counfel we had need to fay. 
 
36 E{}t aSallati of JlotiHon JtelH. 
 
 " It is not I am fright with fear, I2 
 
 " Nor for myfelf fuch thought I take, 
 " But for young babes and infants dear, 
 
 " Which fathers, fore I fear, will lack. 
 " Such fortunes fall thro' fights doubtlefs, 13 
 
 " Pooj- widows plenty fhall be left, 
 " And many a fervant mafterlefs, 
 
 " And mothers of their fons bereft. 
 " This is the caufe I counfel crave, 14 
 
 " The only caufe I caft fuch doubts ; 
 " I'd rather one Englifh foldier fave 
 
 " Than for to kill a thoufand Scots. 
 " I can no kind of compafs caft, 15 
 
 " But many a life there mufl be loft, 
 " And many a tall man death mull taft, 
 
 " The Scuis are fuch a might)" hoft. 
 " The prince himfelf is there prefent 16 
 
 " With all his peers, prejiar'd for war, 
 " With barons, knifjhts, and commons bent, 
 
 " A hundred thoufand men the)" are 
 " Put cafe, our total Englifli jjower 17 
 
 " Were read)" dreft and made in meat : 
 " At two meals they would us devour, 
 
 " The Scottiili army is fo great. 
 " Therefore let each man's mind b'expreft 18 
 
 " How that the Scots we may convince, 
 "And ]"i(>w to pafs this peril beft, 
 
 "And lave the honour of our prince." 
 
EJje Uallati of Jlontron JtelB. 37 
 
 Then Ipake Sir Edward Stanley flout, 19 
 
 And fierce on th'earl he fixt his eyen, 
 " What need have we thus for to doubt, 
 
 " And be afraid of foes unfeen ? 
 " Shall we, by loit'ring on this manner, 20 
 
 " Thus ftill permit the Scots to refl ? 
 " Fye ! let them fee an Englifh banner, 
 
 " And view our foldiers feemly dreft. 
 " What though our foes be five to one, 2 1 
 
 " For that let not our ftomachs fail : 
 " God gives the ftroke when all is done, 
 
 " If it pleafe him, we fhall prevail. 
 " If antient records we perufe, 22 
 
 " Set forth by famous clerks of old, 
 " Which both of Chriftians, Pagans, Jews, 
 
 " Do plain defcribe the battles bold : 
 " There may we certain fee in fight 23 
 
 " Many a mighty prince and king, 
 " With populous armies, put to flight 
 
 " And vanquifh'd by a little wing. 
 " With hundreds three, Judge Gideon 24 
 
 " The Midian hoft o'ercame in fight ; 
 " And Jonathan, Saul's valiant fon, 
 
 " The fierce Philiflines put to flight. 
 " So Judas Machabees, the man 25 
 
 " Of foremoft fame among all knights, 
 " Who can defcribe what feilds he wan 
 
 " With handfulls fmall of warlike wights ? 
 
38 Efjf Bnllati of jFlotiUon Jicln. 
 
 " The mighty Macedonian prince, 26 
 
 " With puiffance fmall and power, 
 " King Darius' hoft did all convince, 
 
 " Who were for one in number four. 
 " The great renowned Roman peers, 27 
 
 " Whofe glorious praife can never blin 
 " Nor fame that daily fills men's ears, 
 
 " Through numbers great did never win. 
 " But Titus Livy doth proteft, 28 
 
 " The lefs their [lower, the more their gain ; 
 " When they were moft they wan the leaft, 
 
 "The greater prefs, more people flain. 
 " Example : at Cannze's fierce conflicrt 29 
 
 " Sc) man\' nobles there were flain, 
 " That bufliels three they did collect 
 
 "Of rings from dead men's fingers ta'en. 
 " Where Scipio, with numbers fmall 30 
 
 " Of warlike wights of lufty blood, 
 " In fcild to night put Haniball, 
 
 " And burnt with fire Carthage proud. 
 " What further iicrd I for to feek 31 
 
 " ( )\ Chriftian kings their manful acts, 
 " Since rt^conls of the fame ftill fpeak, 
 
 ■'Of Henry and his famous f.icts. 
 " All Europe \'et afrefli doth found 32 
 
 '• ( )f his high prowcfs's report. 
 " What flandards ftout brought he to ground 
 
 " With numbers fmall at Agincourt ! 
 
€\)e Ballati of JlottDon Jiclti. 39 
 
 "All France yet trembleth to hear talk, 33 
 
 " What nobles unto death were dight : 
 " Two thoufand, befides vulgar folk, 
 
 " Simpleft of whom was fquire or knight. 
 "He never ftint from war and ftrife 34 
 
 " Till th'heir of France he was proclalm'd. 
 "If fate had lent him longer life, 
 
 " With Englifh laws all France he'd fram'd. 
 " Of Bedford eke his brother John,'* 35 
 
 " The dolphin bet with a fmall band ; 
 " Lord Talbot" with his name alone 
 
 " To tremble forc'd all the French land. 
 " The earl of Richmond, with fmall power, 36 
 
 " Of England wan both realm and crown 
 "At Bofworth, where the raging boar'* 
 
 " And all his hoft were overthrown. 
 " So though the Scottifh hoft be great, 37 
 
 " Let us not ftint, but them withftand ; 
 "In battle bold we fhall them beat, 
 
 " For God will help us with His hand. 
 " But if in fighting we are flain 38 
 
 " And be in battle brought to ground, 
 " Perpetual praife we then fhall gain, 
 
 "Men will our fame for aye out-found. 
 " The mem'ry of our great manhood 39 
 
 " 'Mongft Englifhmen for aye fhall laft ; 
 " And then for vengeance of our blood 
 
 " King Henry home from France will haft. 
 
40 E\}t BallaU of Jlotitian Jtela. 
 
 " Our kinsfolk and our coufins free 40 
 
 " Will wreak our deaths with doleful dint ; 
 " Till time that they revenged be, 
 
 " From fturdy flrokes they will not ftint. 
 " Our ghofts fliall go to God on high, 41 
 
 " Though bodies vile to death be dight ; 
 " In better cafe we cannot die, 
 
 " Than fighting for our country's right. 
 " Put cafe, the lot light contrary, 42 
 
 ■' As firm my faith is fixt it fhall, 
 " And that to gain the \'ictory 
 
 " Good fortune on our fide fliall fall ; 
 " And that we give our foes the foil, 43 
 
 " What worthy praifes fhall we win ! 
 " What mighty prey ! what plenteous fpoil ! 
 
 " What prifoners of princely kin ! 
 " The prince is there himfelf. King Jame, 44 
 
 " With prelates paffing rich in pride ; 
 " VU\y great lords there are of fame, 
 
 " With b.u'ons, knights, and fquires befide ; 
 " Whofi/ i<ius, if ftanding they Ije found 45 
 
 " Winn fight is done, I do not fear, 
 " But fin- their ent'ring Englilh ground 
 
 •• Thi-ir ch.trges thc\- fliall pa)" full dear. 
 " Such fair fliall fall to them, I truft, 46 
 
 " As to tlieir elders has before 
 " Wh(j dar'd into our borders bruft, 
 
 " When they were beat in battle fore. 
 
Ei)z Ballatf of Jlotilion Jiellr. 41 
 
 " Their mighty Mars, King Malchomye/^ 47 
 
 " Did vahantly this land invade ; 
 "At Tinmoth he was forc'd to flee, 
 
 "And flain was by an EngHfh blade. 
 " King David^^ unto Durham came, 48 
 
 "Who with the Scots in pitched feild, 
 " For all their pride, yet loft the game ; 
 
 " King David there did captive yeild. 
 "What fliall I further mention mack 49 
 
 " Of Henry Fourth, how in his days 
 "Th' earl of Morray and lords Mordack, 
 
 "Angus, and Douglafs,'' prickt with praife, 
 " Did enter in Northumberland 50 
 
 "And murthered men without mercye. 
 " Were they not bet by a fmall band 
 
 "In battle, by Sir Henry Piercye ? 
 " The ftory faith, who lift to looke, 51 
 
 "Ten thoufand Scots in field were flaine, 
 " And through the valiant Piercy's ftroke 
 
 " All the earls captives did remaine. 
 "Such luck, I trufl, to our foes will light 52 
 
 "And all that wars do raife in wrong ; 
 "Wherefore againft them let us fight, 
 
 " It's fhame we loiter here fo long. 
 " If any feem abaf'd to be 53 
 
 " That we in battle fhall be bet, 
 " Chefhire and Lancafhire with me 
 
 " Shall give the Scots the firft onfet." 
 
I- 
 
 42 (JEtje 33allali of Jlot)tion JielB. 
 
 When this was faid, then Stanley ftout 54 
 
 All filent down did fit in place ; 
 The eyen of all the lords about 
 
 Were fixed on his valiant face. 
 His wifdom great all wonder'd at, 55 
 
 And all his manful proffer praif'd ; 
 All they that would have ling'red lat, 
 
 Their courage great was now upraif'd. 
 Now they that lately would have ftay'd, 56 
 
 With foremoft cry'd " Forth to the feild !" 
 With one voice all the earl they pray'd 
 
 That Stanley might the vanguard weild. 
 Ikit on that fide the earl of Surrey 57 
 
 Was deaf ; for why, he would not hear. 
 For being mov'd with Stanley's glory, 
 
 His rancour old then did appear. 
 Ouoth he, " The king's place I fupply ; 58 
 
 " At pleafure mine each thing fliall 'bide." 
 Then on each captain he did cry 
 
 In prefence to appear that tide. 
 That done, ftraitwa)- he did ordain 59 
 
 His battle brief on this fame fort, 
 Whofe order and arra)- right plain 
 
 With pen I Ihall make true report. 
 
2Di)e Jamous l^istorg or BallaU 
 
 BATTLES FOUGHT IN FLODDON FIELD 
 
 ®afeen front axt 
 
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 THE FIFTH FIT 
 
 (7o a pleafanl Tune.) 
 
 Now when Stanley with flomach ftout 
 
 Did valiantly the vanguard crave, 
 The earl of Surrey fore did doubt, 
 
 That too high honour he fhould have, 
 If fortune good fell on his part 
 
 And valiant victor he'd return. 
 'Gainft Stanley's blood fuch hateful heart 
 
 In the earl's breaft did boiling burn. 
 Wherefore in forward, firfl of all, 
 
 Chief captain conftituted he 
 His loving fon, lord admirall, 
 With foldiers fuch as came from fea. 
 
44 K\}<: Ballali of JlotiUon Jielli. 
 
 \\ horn valiant lords accompany'd, 4 
 
 With barons bold, and hardy knights ; 
 Lord Oyle^' one, of courage try'd, 
 
 Who led a band of warlike wights. 
 In order, next the admirall, 5 
 
 The lufty knight lord Clifford" went, 
 Who was conceal'd in fliepherd's caul, 
 
 Till twice twelve years were gone and fpent. 
 For when his father at Wakefield 6 
 
 The duke of York' his fon had flaine, 
 He by a friend was thus conceal'd 
 
 Till Richmond's earl began his raigne, 
 Who him reflor'd to all his right, 7 
 
 Seating him in his fire's land ; 
 Or elfe to death he had been dight. 
 
 While th' houfe of York had the uphand. 
 Xow like a captain bold he brought 8 
 
 A band of lufty lads elecl:, 
 Whofe curious cnats, moft cunning wrought, 
 
 With dreadful dragons were bedeckt : 
 Fmm Penigent to Pendlehill, 9 
 
 From Linton to Long Addingham, 
 And all that Craven coafts did till, 
 
 The)- with the lufty Clifford came. 
 All Stainch'ft' hundred went with him, 10 
 
 With ftriplings ftrong from Worledale, 
 And all that Hauton-' hills did climb. 
 
 With Langftroth eke and Littondale, 
 
Eije Ballati of JlotiJon JtelO. 45 
 
 Whofe milkfed fellows, flefhly bred, 1 1 
 
 Well brawn'd, their founding bows upbend ; 
 All fuch as Horton fells had fed, 
 
 On Clifford's banner did attend. 
 Next whom lord Lumley and Latimer*'' 12 
 
 Were equal matcht with all their power, 
 With whom was next their neighbour near. 
 
 Lord Coniers^^ ftout and ftifif in flour, 
 With many a gentleman and fquire 13 
 
 From Rippon, Ripley, and Ryedale. 
 With them marcht forth all Maffamfhire, 
 
 With Noifterfield and Netherdale, 
 With tillmen tough in harnefs ftore, 14 
 
 Which turn'd the furrows of Mitton feild, 
 With billmen bold from Blackamoor :*" 
 
 Moft warlike wights thefe lords did weild. 
 Next whom was plac'd with all his power 15 
 
 Lord Scroop'^ of Upfall, th' aged knight ; 
 Sir Stephen Bull,'^ fo ftiff in flour, 
 
 Was matcht next him with all his might. 
 Sir Walter Aufith,*' fage and grave, 16 
 
 Was with Sir Henry Sherburn^^ bent, 
 And under Bulmer's banner brave 
 
 Th' whole bifhoprick of Durham went ; 
 Whom enfued Sir Chriflopher Ward,'* 17 
 
 With him Sir Edward Effingham ; 
 Next went Sir Nicholas Appleyard, 
 Sir Metham Sidney Everingham : 
 
46 E\}t Ballati of Jlotition JielU. 
 
 All thefe in foremoft battle bold, i8 
 
 These valiant wights in vanguard were : 
 Seven thoufand men numb'red and told, 
 
 Simpleft of whom bare bow or fpear. 
 Then the earl Sir Edmond Howard 19 
 
 'Gan call, whom marfliall foon he made ; 
 " My fon," faid he, " now foon fet forth, 
 
 " With valiant heart the Scots invade. 
 " Chief captain <jf the right hand wing 20 
 
 " To brother thine I thee ordain. 
 " Full furel)' fee thou ferve the king, 
 
 " Employ thy power, let for no pain ; 
 " Of fouthern foldiers hundreds two 21 
 
 " Under th)' wing fhall wend with thee." 
 A thoufand thanks Sir Edmund too 
 
 Did render to his father free. 
 With him was matcht as equal mate 22 
 
 I)r)an Tunftall,''" that truil;y fquire, 
 Whofe ftomach ftout nought could abate 
 
 Xor ought ci_)uld fwage his bold defire. 
 The glory of his grandhre old, 23 
 
 The famous acts eke ot his lire, 
 His blood untainted made him bold 
 
 And ftirr'd his ftomach hot as fire. 
 I'or when debate did firft begin, 24 
 
 And rancour raifed moll: rueful work 
 And ruffling rul'd this realm within, 
 
 'Twi.vt Lancafter and th' houfe of York ; 
 
Ei)E Ballati of Jlotition Jtrlli. 47 
 
 During which hurly-burly and ftrife 25 
 
 Were murther'd many a mother's child, 
 And many a lord bereav'd of life, 
 
 And noble houfe with blood defil'd, — 
 Yet this man's father, void of feare, 26 
 
 While in this realm fuch ruffling was, 
 To Henry Sixth did ftill adhere 
 
 And for no pains would from him pafs. 
 For he to York would never yeild 27 
 
 For all the ftruggling, ftir, and flrife ; 
 Nine times he fiercely fought in feild. 
 
 So oft in danger was his life. 
 And when the king was captive caught 28 
 
 And th' earl of Warwick overthrown. 
 To fave his life befl means he fought, 
 
 And was in bark to Britain blown. 
 With th' earl of Richmond he remain'd 29 
 
 And lords of the Lancaflrian kin. 
 When th' earl at length the garland gain'd. 
 
 And did fair England's empire win. 
 He render'd Tunflall all his right, 30 
 
 And knowing his pure blood unblam'd, 
 He eke did caufe the trufty knight 
 
 Undefil'd Tunftall to be nam'd. 
 Moft fierce he fought at th' fallow feild, 31 
 
 Where Martin Swart**' on ground lay flain. 
 When rage did reign, he never reel'd, 
 
 But like a rock did flill remain. 
 
48 E\}c ISallati of Jlotitioii Jielft. 
 
 Now came this man, amongft the reft, 32 
 
 To match his father in manhood, 
 For battle read)- bent and preft, 
 
 With him a band of lufty blood. 
 Next went Sir Bold'^° and Butler'' brave, 33 
 
 Two lufty knights of Lancafliire ; 
 Then Barkefton bold, and Bygot grave, 
 
 With Warcop wild, a worthy fquire ; 
 Next Richard Chomley,'^' and Chifton ftout, 34 
 
 With men of Hatfield and of Hull ; 
 Lawrence of Dun, with all his rout, 
 
 The people frefh with them did pull. 
 John Clartice then was 'nexed near : 35 
 
 \\ ith Stapylton of ftomach ftern ; 
 Next whom Fitzwilliam forth did fare 
 
 Who martial feats was not tn learn. 
 Thefe captains keen with all their might 36 
 
 In rii^ht-hand wing did warlike wend ; 
 All thefe on Edward Howard, knight. 
 
 The earl, his lire, ordain'd to attend. 
 Then next the left-hand wing did weild ^y 
 
 Sir Marmaduke Conftable''^ old ; 
 With him a troop well tried in feild, 
 
 And eke his fons and kinsfolk bold. 
 Next him Sir William Piercy^' proud 38 
 
 Went with the great earl Piercy's power, 
 From Lancafliire of lufty blood, 
 
 A thoufand foldiers, ftiff in ftowre. 
 
E\)e Ballalr of Jlotitron JtclB. 49 
 
 The earl himfelf did undertake 39 
 
 Of the rearward the regiment, 
 Whom barons bold did bravely back, 
 
 And fouthern foldiers feemly bent. 
 Next whom in place was 'nexed near 40 
 
 Lord Scroops^ of Bolton ftern and flout. 
 On horfeback who had not his peer ; 
 
 No Englifhman Scots did more doubt. 
 With him did wend all Wenfledale 41 
 
 From Morton unto Moifdale moor ; 
 All they that dwelt by the banks of Swale, 
 
 With him were bent in harnefs ftour. 
 From Wenfdale warlike wights did wend; 42 
 
 From Bifhopfdale went bowmen bold, 
 From Coverdale to Cotter End, 
 
 And all to Kidfon Caufey cold i'* 
 From MoUerflang and Middleham, 43 
 
 And all from Marfk and Middletonby, 
 And all that climb the mountain Cam 
 
 Whofe crown from frofl is feldom free ; 
 With lufty lads and large of length, 44 
 
 Which dwelt at Seimer water fide ; 
 All Richmondfhire its total ftrength 
 
 The lufty Scroop did lead and guide. 
 Next went Sir Philip Tilney tall, 45 
 
 With him Sir Thomas Barkley brave ; 
 Sir John Radcliffe in arms royall, 
 
 And eke Sir William Gafcoyn grave.'' 
 
50 !!L\)t Ballati at Jlotition Jteltf. 
 
 Next whom did pafs with all his rout 46 
 
 Sir Chriftopher Pickering proud, 
 Sir Bryan Stapylton moft flout, 
 
 Two valiant knights of noble blood.^^ 
 Next with Sir John Stanley there yede 47 
 
 The bifliop of Ely's fervants bold ; 
 Sir Lionel Piercy,^^ eke did lead 
 
 Some hundred men well tried and told. 
 Next went Sir Ninian ^larkenfil^^ 4S 
 
 In armour coat of cunning work ; 
 The next went Sir John IMaundevill,^* 
 
 With him the citizens of York. 
 Sir George Darcy'^ in banner bright 49 
 
 Did bear a bloody broken fpear ; 
 Next went Sir Magnus with his might, 
 And Cheflane bold of lufty chear ; 
 1 Sir Guy Dawnie"^ with his glorious rout, 50 
 
 Then Mr. Dawbie's fervants bold ; 
 I Then Richard Tempefl'™ with his rout 
 
 I In rereward thus th' array did hold ; 
 
 I The right hand wing with all his rout 51 
 
 ^ The lufty lord Dacres" did lead ; 
 
 With him the bows of Kendal flout 
 ! With milkwhite coats and croffes red ; 
 
 All Kefwick eke and Cockermouth ^2 
 
 And all from Copeland's craggy hills ; 
 All Weflmoreland, both north and fouth, 
 Whofe weapons were great weighty bills ; 
 
E\it aSallaU of jFlaiUon Jtellr. 51 
 
 All Carlifle eke and Cumberland, 53 
 
 They with lord Dacres proud did pafs, 
 From Branton and from Broughly fands, 
 
 From Grayflon and from Ravenglafs, 
 With ftriplings ftrong from Stanemore fide ; 54 
 
 And Auston-moor men marched even ; 
 All thofe that Gilfland grave did hide, 
 
 With horfemen light from Hexham Leven : 
 All thefe did mareh in Dacres' band, 55 
 
 All thefe enfu'd his banner broad ; 
 No luftier lord was in the land, 
 
 Nor more might boaft of birth and blood. 
 Many ftrong houfes, huge of height, 56 
 
 Were all his own to give or fell, 
 Fair baronies by his birth-right 
 
 And heritage to him befell. 
 Thefe royal lords thus 'ray did hold, 57 
 
 With ranges, ranks, and warlike wings ; 
 But yet the man is left untold 
 
 On whom the matter wholly hings, 
 Whofe worthy praife and prowefs great, 58 
 
 Whofe glorious fame fhall never blin. 
 Nor Neptune never fhall forget 
 
 What laud he hath left to his kin. 
 Sir Edward Stanley, ftiff in ftour, 59 
 
 He is the man of whom I mean ; 
 With him did pafs a mighty power 
 
 Of foldiers feemly to be feen. 
 
52 E\)C Ballat) of Jtotitron Jtclli. 
 
 Moft liver lads in Lonfdale bred, 60 
 
 With weapons of unweildy weight ; 
 All fuch as Tatham fells had fed 
 
 Went under Stanlej-'s ftreamer bright. 
 From Holland billmen bold were boun, 61 
 
 With fuch as Botton Banks did hide ; 
 From Wliarmore up to W'hittington, 
 
 And all to W'enning water-fide ; 
 From Silvcrdale to Kent Sand fide 62 
 
 W'hofe foil is fown with cockle fliells, 
 From Cartmell eke and Conneyfide, 
 
 With fellows fierce from Furnefs fells ; 
 All Lancafliire, for the moft part, 63 
 
 The lufty Stanley ftout did lead, 
 A ftock of ftriplings flrong of heart, 
 
 Brought up from babes with beef and bread ; 
 From Warton unto Warrington, 64 
 
 From Wigan unto Wirefdale, 
 From Wedicar to W^addington 
 
 From old Ribchefter to Ratchdale ; 
 From Poulton and Preflon, with pikes 65 
 
 They with the Stanley flout forth went ; 
 From Pemberton and Pilling dikes 
 
 For battle billmen bold were bent ; 
 With fellows frefli and fierce in fight 66 
 
 Which Horton fields turn'd out in fcores, 
 With lufty lads, liver and light, 
 
 From Blackburn and Bolton-i'th' moors ; 
 
Ef)0 Ballati of Jlolilfon jTielti. 53 
 
 With children chofen from Chefhire, 67 
 
 In armour bold for battle draft, 
 And many a gentleman and fquire 
 
 Were under Stanley's ftreamer preft. 
 Thus Stanley ftout, the laft of all, 68 
 
 Of the rereward the rule did weild. 
 Which done, to Bolton in Glendale 
 
 The total army took the feild. 
 Where all the counfel did confent 69 
 
 That Rouge-Croix to the Scottifh king 
 Strait with inflruftions fliould be fent 
 
 To know his majefty's meaning. 
 
 THE SIXTH FIT. 
 
 And whereas the caftle of Ford 
 
 He threat'ned for to overthrow, 
 Rouge-Croix was charged, word for word 
 
 The earl's intent to let him know : — 
 That if the king would fo agree 
 
 To fuffer that fame fort to ftand, 
 And William Heron^* fend home free, 
 
 Who then was captive in Scotland, 
 
54 S^fje 13allatj of JlotiHon JFiclti. 
 
 \ Whereto if th' king would condescend, 
 
 I The earl promifed to reftore 
 
 } And to the king ftraitway to fend 
 
 I Of his countrymen captives four, 
 
 I Lord Johnftone and Sir Sandy Hume, 
 
 Sir Richard Hume and W'illiam Cam"' 
 But if the king Ihould yet prefume 
 In wrongful fort to raife up war 
 Againft King Henry, his brother-in-law, 
 
 And commons cruelly did kill. 
 And pills and forts did fierce down draw, 
 
 And Englifli blood fpar'd not fpill : 
 The earl charged the herald ftraight 
 
 To certify the faid Scots' king. 
 That he in feild with him would fight 
 
 On Friday then next following. 
 And then ere Rouge-Croix forth did fare. 
 
 The admiral took him afide, 
 And bad him to the kinsf declare 
 
 His coming and accefs that tide ; 
 That h(j from fea defcended was 
 
 With all his total power and might. 
 And that in forward with his grace 
 
 He fliould him find fit for to fight ; 
 And when the Scots on him did call 
 At days of March to make redrefs 
 For Andrew Barton, their admirall, 
 
 W^hom he with bloody blade did blefs, — 
 
Ei)e Ballati of Jloimon Jieltr. 55 
 
 Now he was come in perfon preft 10 
 
 The faid Sir Andrew's death to 'vouch ; 
 "And if it in his power doth reft," 
 
 Quoth he, "I fliall ferve him with fuch. 
 " For there fhall no Scot 'fcape unllain, 1 1 
 
 " The king in perfon fole except ; 
 " For fo of th' Scots," quoth he again, 
 
 "No other mercy I expeft." 
 And yet ere Rouge-Croix went his way, 1 2 
 
 The earl and counfel did expecl 
 That the Scots king without delay 
 
 An herald would again dirett. 
 Rouge-Croix was yet commanded there 1 3 
 
 No Scotsman near the field to bring, 
 Left he their conducft might declare, 
 
 And thereby dangers great might fpring. 
 Then Rouge-Croix ready took his horfe, 14 
 
 Bedeckt with coat of arms moft brave ; 
 With him did wend a trumpet hoarfe. 
 
 That Scots their coming might perceive. 
 Their geldings were both good and light, 1 5 
 
 From galloping they feldom ftay'd, 
 Till at the length they view'd in fight 
 
 Where as their enemy's army laid. 
 The Scots watch them anon defcry'd 16 
 
 And them convey'd before the king. 
 Where he with barons bold did 'bide, 
 
 Whom Rouge-Croix on knees kneeling 
 
56 ffl:tir iSallati of Jloljljon Jtelti. 
 
 With feemly falutations greet, 17 
 
 And after, his inftrudlions ftraight 
 Each one expreft in order meet. 
 
 And letters 'livered there in fight. 
 Whom when the l<;ing of Scots had heard, ] 8 
 
 And eke had view'd his letters large. 
 E'en frantick-like he fuming far'd 
 
 And, bombard-like, did boafts difcharge. 
 " If true," quoth he, " let't be expreft ; 19 
 
 " Thou herald fent, anon recite ! 
 " And was your earl fo bold of breafl 
 
 " Thus proudly to a prince to write ? 
 '■ But fmce he feems to be fo rough, 20 
 
 " I fwear," quoth he, "by fceptre and crown, 
 "He fhall have fighting fill enough 
 
 " On Friday, fore the sun go down. 
 " For here to God I promife plight : 21 
 
 " We never part will from this hill 
 " Till we have try'd your earl's whole might 
 
 " And Lji'en their folks fighting theirTfill. 
 " Becaufe he vex'd our land of late, 22 
 
 " Perchance his ftomach is extoll'd ; 
 " But now we will withftand his grace 
 
 " Or thoufand pates (hall there be poll'd." 
 To prefence then he call'd his peers, 23 
 
 To whom he read the earl his bill, 
 And, audience given with ireful ears, 
 
 Some faid it came of little fkill. 
 
Ei}t aSallan of Jlomon Jtelti. 57 
 
 An earl of fo fimple a {hire 24 
 
 To 'nointed king fuch words to write ; 
 Some bad the fchedule caft in fire ; 
 
 Some for to fpeak did fpare for fpite ; 
 Some faid the herald of's own head . 25 
 
 Such talk extempore did exprefs, 
 And counfelled to ufe all fpeed 
 
 An herald hafty to addrefs, 
 To know of th' earl of Surrey plain, 26 
 
 If he fuch meffage did procure ; 
 And till the time he turn'd again 
 
 The Englifh herald to make fure. 
 Whereto the king did foon confent, 27 
 
 And Rougecroix fure in fafety kept ; 
 And home with th' Englifh trumpet fent 
 
 An herald by name Hay clept, 
 Who was commanded for to know 28 
 
 Of the earl and his council fage 
 If Rougecroix truth to him did fhow, 
 
 Or, if he had fent fuch meffage. 
 And if true tidings he had brought, 29 
 
 And to his grace avouch'd no lye. 
 The king anon in mind forethought 
 
 How he the earl might certifye. 
 He Hay then inflrutted ftraight 30 
 
 With letters large and eloquent ; 
 Which done they foon fet forth that night 
 
 And t'ards the Englifh camp they went. 
 
58 Eije Ballati of JloUticin Jietti. 
 
 But at a little village poor 31 
 
 Hay did light and took lodging ; 
 For th' arm)' was two miles or more, 
 
 Whiles trumpet fliews of his coming. 
 The night was e\en at midft well near, 32 
 
 And th' Englifli lords lying on grafs ; 
 Till time the trumpet did appear 
 
 And told earl SiaTey all the cafe ; 
 How that the Scots they did detain 33 
 
 Rougecroix, and credit him would not. 
 And for to know the truth more plain 
 
 The king himfelf had fent a Scot, 
 Which he conftrained for to ftay 34 
 
 And lodged in a village mean, 
 Left he their order might difplay, 
 
 And fo the Scots ad\antage gain. 
 Which when the earl had underftood, 35 
 
 And \iew'cl the Scotchmen's dealings all 
 He in a found and fober mood 
 
 Upon his council ftraight did call, 
 Where he in jarefence did repeat 36 
 
 The total tale the trumpet told. 
 The council muf'd, with mar\-el great, 
 
 Why Scots their herald did withhold. 
 Not any caufe could they conjeft, 37 
 
 But all furmifes were deferr'd. 
 And fage advice was clean defeft 
 
 Till they the Scottifh herald heard, 
 
€\}t aSallaH of jFlolitioit Jielti. 59 
 
 Wherefore as foon as Phoebus fair 38 
 
 Dame Luna's light and ftars did ftain, 
 And burning in the fiery chair 
 
 His flartUng fleed hal'd forth amain, 
 The earl and all his council fage 39 
 
 On horfeback then they hied around, 
 And every man did bring his page 
 
 To hold their horfes in that ftound. 
 But when they ftept within the ftreet, 40 
 
 The Scot was fcarce from cabbage got. 
 Where he the Englifh lords did greet 
 
 With little court'fie, like a Scot. 
 Which done, th' earl did then command 41 
 
 His meffage he fhould manifefl. 
 Then Hay haftly out of hand 
 
 His chiefeft charge anon expreft : 
 " My fovereign lord," quoth he, "king Jame, 42 
 
 " Would of your honour gladly hear, 
 "If Rougecroix was charg'd in your name 
 
 " Such bold words to his grace to bear. 
 "My mafter doth miftruft his words 43 
 
 "With leafing to be underlay'd 
 " Likewife do all our peerlefs lords ;" 
 
 Then foon he told what Rougecroix faid. 
 Quo' th' earl, "What does thy maflier mean, 44 
 
 " Of herald ours to make fuch dread ? 
 "His meffage for to forge or feign 
 " Of leafing we do fland no need. 
 
6o EfjE BallaU of JtoUtion Jteli, 
 
 " Our herald's words we'll juflify, 45 
 
 " For verity he did reveal ; 
 " His writings eke the fame will try 
 
 " Which of our arms do bear the feal. 
 " Wherefore I of thy mafter mufe, 46 
 
 " Our herald why he handleth fo 
 " And 'gainft all reafon doth refufe 
 
 " Our meffage to make anfwer to." 
 Then Hay to the earl reply'd, 47 
 
 " I fay," quoth he, " fo faid my lord, 
 "And to your meffage at this tide 
 
 " I fliall make anfwer word for word : 
 "And for Ford Caftle, firft of all, 48 
 
 " Which to preferve you do make fuit 
 " To fave the fame from fire or fall, 
 
 " My mafter thereto biddeth mute. 
 " And for the ow ner of the fort, 49 
 
 " Who William Heron hath to name, 
 "My mafter fa)s to fliow you fliort, 
 
 "He will not anfwer to the fame. 
 " For Johnftone, and Sir Sandy Hume, 50 
 
 " Sir Richard Hume and William Carr, 
 " Our prince himfelf in perfon's come 
 
 " Them to redeem by dint of war. 
 " If ye your meffage dare make good 5 i 
 
 " On Friday next in feild to fight, 
 " My mafter with a manful mood 
 
 " To mighty Jove has promifd plight, 
 
E\)z Ballari of JlotUon jFielti. 6i 
 
 " For to abide the battle bold 52 
 
 " And give your folks fighting their fill, 
 " And that your lordfhip fhow I fhould 
 
 " So grateful be his grace until, 
 " As any earl all England thorough ; 53 
 
 " For if he had fuch meffage fent, 
 " He being at home in Edinborough, 
 
 "He would have anfwered your intent. 
 " Now if with dint of fword ye dare 54 
 
 " Abide his grace in battle bold 
 " On Friday next, he craves no far. 
 
 " My meffage whole now I have told." — 
 A thoufand thanks earl Surrey there 55 
 
 Unto the royal king did yeild, 
 Whofe princely heart did not forbear 
 
 So fimple a lord to meet in feild. 
 And then a valiant vow he plight, 56 
 
 That he in battle bold would 'bide 
 And on prefixed day to fight ; 
 
 Which done, he did command that tide 
 The Scottifh herald, Hay clept, 57 
 
 A feafon there he fhould fojourn 
 And in fafe cuftody be kept. 
 
 Till time that Rougecroix did return. 
 When as the herald Hay heard, 58 
 
 He ftraight to the king his fervant fent, 
 Who to his grace all things declar'd 
 
 With the earl's anfwer and intent. 
 
The king then Rougecroix did difcharge 59 
 
 Who hy'd home to the earl in haft ; 
 Then Hay was let go at large 
 
 When Rougecroix came who was kept faft. 
 Then Rougecroix did make true report 60 
 
 To th' earl and captains, in like cafe 
 As he had feen, and in what fort 
 
 The Scottifli king encamped was. 
 Even on the height of Floddon hill, 61 
 
 Where down below his ord'nance lay, 
 So ftrong that no man's cunning fkill 
 
 To fight with him could find a way. 
 Such mountains fteep, fuch craggy hills 62 
 
 His army on th' one fide inclofe ; 
 The other fide great grizzly gills 
 
 Did lence with fenny mire and mofs. 
 Which when the earl had underftood, 63 
 
 He council crav'd of his captains all, 
 Who l)ad fet forth with manful mood 
 
 And take fuch fortune as would fall ; 
 Whereto the earl did foon confent 64 
 
 And quickly called for a guide, 
 Left by the way he harm might hent : 
 
 But hark what happened that tide. 
 
^\ic Ballat) of JloBUon Jirltr. 63 
 
 THE SEVENTH FIT. 
 
 When th' army preft was to proceed, i 
 
 All 'rayed in ranks, ready to fight. 
 Came fcowring all in fcarlet red, 
 
 With lufty lance, a horfeman light ; 
 His face with vailed vizard hid, 2 
 
 Thus plainly I have heard report. 
 Who radly by the ranks did ride 
 
 And to the earl did ftraight refort. 
 All th' army marvel'd at this man, 3 
 
 To fee him ride in fuch array ; 
 But what he was, or whence he came. 
 
 No knight there was could certain fay. 
 When he the earl of Surre)- faw, 4 
 
 From faddle light he leaped there. 
 And down on knees did lout full low. 
 
 Holding in hand his horfe and fpeare. 
 And on this fort he filence brake : 5 
 
 " My lord," quoth he, "grant me fome grace ! 
 " Pardon my life for pity's fake, 
 
 " You have the prince's power and place ! 
 " Grant at your hand I grace may have, 6 
 
 " Freely forgive me mine offence ! 
 " Perchance ye fhortly fhall perceive 
 
 " Your kindnefs I may recompenfe." 
 
64 E\)t Ballati of Jlotiton Jielti. 
 
 Quoth th' earl then, " Note us thy name ; 7 
 
 " BeUke thou'fl done fome heinous deed, 
 " And dare not fhew thy face for fliame. 
 
 " What is thy fact ? Declare with fpeed ! 
 "If thou haft wrought fome treafon, tell, 8 
 
 " Or Englifh blood by murther fpilt, 
 " Or thou haft been fome rude rebell, — 
 
 " Elfe we will pardon thee thy guilt." 
 Then to the earl he did reply 9 
 
 And fay, " My lord, for offence fuch 
 " The total world I do defy ; 
 
 " With treafon me no man can touch. 
 " I grant indeed I wrong have wrought, 10 
 
 " Yet difobedience was the worft ; 
 " Elfe I am clear from deed or thought, 
 
 "And extreams me thereto have forc'd. 
 " And as for murth'ring Englifh men, 11 
 
 " I never hurt man, maid, or wife ; 
 " Howbeit, Scots fome nine or ten 
 
 "At leaft I have bereft of life. 
 " Elfe I in time of wealth or want 12 
 
 " Still to ni)- king perfifted true. 
 " Wherefore good lord, my life do grant ; 
 
 "My name then fhortly I fliall fliew." 
 "Quoth the earl then, " Pluck up thy heart, 13 
 
 " Thou feems to be no perfon prave. 
 " Stand up at once ; lay dread apart : 
 
 "Thy pardon free here flialt thou have. 
 
€\jt Ballatr of dnotitron jFielli. 65 
 
 " Thou feems to be a man indeed, 14 
 
 " And of thy hands hardy and wight ; 
 " Of fuch a man we fhall ftand in need 
 
 "Perchance, on Friday next, at night." 
 Then on his feet he ftarts up ftraight 1 5 
 
 And thank'd the earl at that good tide ; 
 Then on his horfe he leaped light, 
 
 Saying, " My lord, ye lack a guide. 
 " But I fhall you condu6l full ftraight 16 
 
 " To where the Scots encamped are ; 
 " I know of old the Scottifh fleight 
 
 " And crafty ftratagems of war ; 
 " Thereto experience hath me taught. 1 7 
 
 " Now fhall I fhow you who I am : 
 " On borders here I was upbrought, 
 
 "And Baftard Heron is my name." — 
 " What !" quoth the earl, " Baftard Heron ! 18 
 
 " He dyed at leaft now two year fince 
 " Betwixt Newark and Northampton ; 
 
 "He periftit through the peftilence. 
 " Our king to death had deem'd the man, 19 
 
 " 'Caufe he the Scottifti warden flew, 
 " And on our borders firft began 
 
 " Thefe raging wars for to renew. 
 " But God his purpofe did prevent, 20 
 
 " For he dyed of the plague, to prove. 
 " The king did fmce his death lament, 
 
 " He wond'rous well the man did love. 
 
66 Efje Ballati of Jlotitrciit JFtelti, 
 
 "Would God, thy tale were true this tide, 21 
 
 " Thou Ballard Heron might be found : 
 " Thou in this gate fhould be our guide ; 
 
 " I wot right well thou knows the ground." — 
 " I am the fame," faid he again, 22 
 
 And therewith did unfold his face ; 
 Each perfon then perceived plain. 
 
 That done, he open'd all the cafe. 
 Quoth he, 'When I the Scots' warden 23 
 
 " Had with my blade bereft of breath, 
 " I wift well I fhould get no pardon, 
 
 " But fure I was to fuffer death. 
 •' In hafle King Henry for me fent, 24 
 
 " To whom I durft not difobey ; 
 " So towards London flraight I went. 
 
 " But hark what wile I wrought by th' way ; 
 " I nought but truth to jnu fhall note : 25 
 
 " That time in many a town and borough 
 " The peftilence was raging hot, 
 
 " And raging reigned all England thorough. 
 " So coming to a certain town, 26 
 
 " I faid I was infefted fore ; 
 "And in a lodge they laid me down, 
 
 " Where company I had no more 
 " But my own fecret fervants three ; 27 
 
 " For townsmen 'fraid for fear they watched. 
 "So in that ftead no more flaid I, 
 
 " But homeward by the dark defpatched. 
 
Cfje iSallati of Jlotition JfteHr. 67 
 
 " My fervants fecretly that night . 28 
 
 " Did frame a corpfe in cunning fort, 
 " And on the morrow, foon 'twas light, 
 
 " My death did ruefully report. 
 " And fo my fervants foon that morn 29 
 
 " The corpfe to bury made them bown, 
 " Crying ' Alas !' like men forlorn, 
 
 " And feem'd for forrow to fall down. 
 " The corpfe they cunningly convey'd, 30 
 
 "And caufed the bells aloud be rung, 
 " And money to the prieft they paid, 
 
 " And fervice for my foul was fung. 
 "Which done, they tidings ftraight did bring 31 
 
 " Unto King Henry I was dead. 
 " Chrift have his foul, then faid the king, 
 
 " For fure he fhould have lofl his head, 
 " If he up to the court had come : 32 
 
 " I promif'd had fo by Saint Paul. 
 " But fmce God did prevent our doom, 
 
 "Almighty Chrifl forgive his foul. 
 " To manfion mine I came at laft 33 
 
 "By journeys nimbly all by night ; 
 " And now two years or more are pafl 
 
 " Since open I appear'd in fight. 
 " No wight did weet but I was dead, 34 
 
 " Save my three fervants and my wife ; 
 " Now am I ftart up in this flead, 
 
 " And come again from death to life." — 
 
Which faid, the lords and captains fam 35 
 
 From laughing loud could not refrain, 
 To hear his gand they had good gam. 
 
 And of his welfare all were fain ; 
 Whofe policy they had perceiv'd, 36 
 
 And oftentimes his truth had tried ; 
 Which was the caufe fo fore they crav'd 
 
 This Heron brave to be their guide. 
 Then forth before he fiercely flew ; 37 
 
 The borderers bold to him they draw. 
 The total army did enfue 
 
 And came that night to Wooler-Haugh. 
 There th' Englifh lords did lodge their hofl, 38 
 
 Becaufe the place was plain and dr)-, 
 And was within fix miles at moft 
 
 Where as their enemies did lie. 
 The morrow next they all remov'd, 39 
 
 Though weather was both foul and ill, 
 Along down by a pleafant flood 
 
 Which called is th' Water of Till. 
 And all that da)' they view'd in fight 40 
 
 Where as the Scots for battle bode. 
 Becaufe the day was fpent, that night 
 
 The army lodg'd at Barmoor wood. 
 Then valiantly with the vanguard, 41 
 
 The morrow next, with mature fl<;ill 
 The admirall did march forward, 
 
 And paffed o'er th' Water of Till. 
 
E\}t Ballati of Jlotition jFirltr. 69 
 
 At Twizlebridge, with ordinance 42 
 
 And other engines fit for war, 
 His father forth did eke advance ; 
 
 And at Millfield, from thence not far, 
 With the rereward the river paft, 43 
 
 All ready in ranks and battle array. 
 They had no need more time to waft. 
 
 For vi6luals they had none that day ; 
 But black fafting, as they were born, 44 
 
 From flefh or fifh, or other lood ; 
 Drink had they none two days before. 
 
 But water wan in running flood. 
 Yet they fuch fteadful faiths did bear 45 
 
 Unto their king and native land, 
 Each one to t'other then did fwear 
 
 'Gainft foes to fight while they could ftand, 
 And never flee while life did laft, 46 
 
 But rather die by dint of fword. 
 Thus over plains and hills they paft. 
 
 Until they came to Sandiford, 
 A brook of breadth a taylor's yerd, 47 
 
 Where th' earl of Surrey thus did fay : 
 " Good fellow-foldiers, be not fear'd, 
 
 " But fight it out like men this day. 
 " Like Englifhmen now play your parts, 48 
 
 " Beftow your ftrokes with ftomach bold ; 
 " Ye know the Scottifh coward hearts, 
 
 " And how we fcourged them of old. 
 
70 s:i}e Ballat) of JTlotilioix Jtclti. 
 
 " Strike but three ftrokes with ftomachs flout, 49 
 
 " And fhoot each man fharp arrows three, 
 " And you fhall fee without all doubt 
 
 " The fcoulding Scots begin to flee. 
 " Think on your country's common wealth, 50 
 
 "In what eftate the fame fliall ftand ; 
 " To Englifhmen no hope of health 
 
 "If Scots do get the upper hand. 
 " If we fhould not them boldly bide, 51 
 
 " But beafllike backs of them fhould turn, 
 " All England north, from Trent to Tweed, 
 
 " The haughty Scots would harry and burn. 
 " Your faithful wives, your daughters pure, 52 
 
 " They would not ftick for to defile ; 
 " Of life none could be fafe or fure, 
 
 " But murther'd be by villains vile. 
 " But if ye'Il fight like foldiers fierce, 53 
 
 " So that by force we win the feild, 
 " My tongue cannot tell and rehearfe 
 
 " What plenteous fpoil we then fliall weild. 
 " Befides all that, perpetual praife 54 
 
 " Throughout all ages we fliall gain, 
 " And quietly drive forth our days, 
 
 " And in perduring peace remain." 
 All fam the foldiers then replied, 55 
 
 And to the earl they promif'd plight, 
 There on that bent boldly to bide, 
 
 And never flee but fiercely fight. 
 
Ef)C Jamous l^istorg or Uallati 
 
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 THE EIGHTH FIT 
 
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 Then marched forth the men of war, 
 
 And every band their banner fhew'd, 
 And trumpets hoarfe were heard afar, 
 
 And gHfh'ring harnefs fhining view'd. 
 Thus they paft forth upon the plain, 
 
 And flraight forth by a valley low. 
 Where up above, on the mountain. 
 
 The Scots' army in fight they faw, 
 Whom they did leave on the left hand, 
 
 And paft forth on the funny fide ; 
 Till 'twixt the Scots and Scottifh land 
 
 They were conduced by their guide. 
 
72 Cije Ballatf of Jlolition Jtelo. 
 
 Now all this while the king of Scots 4 
 
 Beheld them fair before his eyen ; 
 Within his mind drove many doubts, 
 
 Mufing what th' Englifhmen did mean. 
 Giles Mufgrave"" was a guileful Greek, 5 
 
 And friend familiar with the king. 
 Who faid, " Sir king, if ye do feek 
 
 " To know the Englifhmen's meaning, 
 " Ye better notice none can have 6 
 
 " Than that which I to you fhall tell ; 
 " What they forecaft I full conceive, 
 
 " I know their purpofe paffmg well. 
 " Your marches they mean for to fack, 7 
 
 " And borders yours to harry and burn ; 
 " Wherefore it's beft that we go back, 
 
 " From fuch intent them for to turn." 
 This Mufgrave was a man of fkill, 8 
 
 And fpake this for a policy, 
 To caufe the king come down the hill. 
 
 That fo the battle tried might be. 
 The king gave credit to his words, 9 
 
 Trufting his talk was void of traine ; 
 He with confent of all his lords 
 
 Did march with fpeed down to the plaine. 
 By north there was another hill, 10 
 
 Which Branxton hill is call'd by name ; 
 The Scots anon did fcoure there till, 
 
 Left th' Englifhmen fliould get the fame. 
 
®te Ballatr of Jlotitioit Jtellr. n 
 
 The litter which they left behind, 1 1 
 
 And other filth, on fire they fet 
 Whofe dully fmoak the wraftling wind 
 
 E'en ftraight between the armies bet. 
 Still on the height the Scots them held ; 12 
 
 The Englifhmen march on below ; 
 The fmothering fmoak the light fo feal'd 
 
 That neither army th' other faw. 
 At length the weather waxed clear, 13 
 
 And fmoak confum'd within a while ; 
 Now both the hofls in diftance were 
 
 Not paft a quarter of a mile. 
 Then th' admirall did plain afpe61; 14 
 
 The Scots array'd in battles four ; 
 The man was fage and circumfpe6l, 
 
 And foon perceived that his power 
 So great a ftrength could not gainftand ; 15 
 
 Wherefore he to his father fent, 
 Defiring him, ftraight out of hand 
 
 With th' rereward ready to be bent, 
 ,And join with him in equal ground : 16 
 
 Whereto the earl agreed anon. 
 Then drums flruck up with dreadful found, 
 
 And trumpets blew with doleful tone. 
 Then founding bows were foon upbent ; 1 7 
 
 Some did their arrows fharp uptake ; 
 Some did in hand their halberts hent ; 
 
 Some rufly bills did ruffling fhake. 
 
74 ®^!)E Ballati of Jlotition JTiElD. 
 
 Then ord'nance o-reat anon outbraft i8 
 
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 On either fide, with thundering thumps, 
 And roaring guns with fire faft 
 
 Then levell'd out great leaden lumps. 
 With rumbling rage thus \^ulcan's art 19 
 
 Began this feild and fearful fight ; 
 But the arch-gunner on th' Englifh part 
 
 The mafter Scot did mark fo right. 
 That he with bullet braft his brain, 20 
 
 And hurl'd his heels his head above. 
 Then pip'd he fuch a peal again, 
 
 The Scots he from their ord'nance drove. 
 So by the Scots' artillery 21 
 
 The Englifhmen no harm did hent ; 
 But the Englifli gunner grievoufly 
 
 Them tennis-balls he foufing fent, 
 Into the midft of th' enemy's ranks, 22 
 
 Where they with ragious claps down rufh'd, 
 Some fhouting laid with broken fhanks. 
 
 Some crying laid with members crufh'd. 
 Thus th' Englifhmen with bombard fliot 23 
 
 Their foes on heaps down thick they threw ; 
 But yet the Scots with ftomachs ftout 
 
 Their broken ranks did flill renew. 
 And when the roaring guns did ceafe, 24 
 
 To handy ftrokes they hied apace, 
 And with their total power preafe 
 
 To join with enemy face to face. 
 
E\)e Ballatf of Jlotilion jFteln. 75 
 
 The Englifhmen their feather'd flight 25 
 
 Sent out anon from founding bow, 
 Which wounded many a warlike wight, 
 
 And many a groom to ground did throw. 
 The grey goofe wing did work fuch grief, 26 
 
 And did the Scots fo fcour and fkail ; 
 For in their battle, to be brief, 
 
 They rattling flew as rank as hail. 
 That many a foldier on the foil 27 
 
 Lay dead that day through dint of dart ; 
 The arrows keen kept fuch a coil, 
 
 And wounded many a wight his heart, 
 And pierc'd the fcalp of many a Scot, 28 
 
 So that on ground they groaning fell ; 
 Some had his fhoulder quite through fhot ; 
 
 Some leaving life did loudly yell ; 
 Some from his leg the lance would pull ; 29 
 
 Some through his ftomach fore was ftickt ; 
 Some bleeding bellow'd like a bull ; 
 
 Some were through privy members prickt. 
 But yet the Scots ftill ftout did ftand 30 
 
 Till arrow fhot at laft was done. 
 And plied apace to flrokes of hand. 
 
 And at the lafl did battle join. 
 Then on the Englifli part with fpeed 31 
 
 The bills ftept forth and bows went back ; 
 The moorifli pikes and mells of lead 
 
 Did deal there many a dreadful thwack. 
 
76 (ir!)r Ballai of Jlotitiott Jtclli. 
 
 The Engliflimen ftretcht eaft and weft, 32 
 
 And fouthward did their faces fet ; 
 The Scotchmen northward proudly preft, 
 
 And manfully their foes they met. 
 Firft weftward of a wing there was 33 
 
 Sir Edward Howard captain chief, 
 With whom did pafs in equal mace 
 
 Sir Bryan Tunftall, to be brief ; 
 \Mth whom encounter'd a ftrong Scot 34 
 
 Which was the king's chief chamberlain, 
 Lord Hume''' by name, of courage hot, 
 
 Who manfully march'd them again. 
 Ten thoufand Scots, well tried and told, 35 
 
 Under his ftandard flout he led ; 
 When th' Englifhmen did them behold. 
 
 For fear at firft they would have fled, 
 Had not the valiant Tunftall been, 36 
 
 Who ftill ftept on with ftomach ftout, 
 Crying, " Come on, good countrymen, 
 
 " Now fiercely let us fight it out ! 
 " Let not the number of our foes 37 
 
 " Your manful hearts minifli or fliock ; 
 " Let ne'er be laid unto our nofe, 
 
 " That Scotchmen made us turn our back. 
 " Like doughty lads, let's rather dye, 38 
 
 " And from our blood take all rebuke ; 
 " With edged tools now let us try." — 
 
 Then from the earth he mould uptook, 
 
E\)c Ballati of Jlotition Jicln. yy 
 
 And did the fame in mouth receive 39 
 
 In token of his Maker dear, 
 Which, when his people did perceive 
 
 His valiant heart, renew'd their chear. 
 Then firfl before in foremoft 'ray 40 
 
 The trufty Tunftall bold forth fprung ; 
 His ftomach could no longer ftay, 
 
 But thund'ring thruft into the throng. 
 And as true men did make report, 41 
 
 In prefent place which did onlook. 
 He was the firft, for to be fliort, 
 
 On th' Englifh part that proffer'd flroke. 
 All thofe that he with halbert caught 42 
 
 He made to flagger in that ftound, 
 And many a groom to ground he brought, 
 
 And dealt there many a deadly wound ; 
 And foreward ftill 'gainft foes he flew, 43 
 
 And thrafhing turn'd them all to teene ; 
 Where he a noble Scotchman flew. 
 
 Which called was Sir Malkin Keene'"^ ; 
 And ftill his foes purfued faft, 44 
 
 And weapon in Scotch blood he warm'd, 
 And flaught'ring lafli'd, till at the lafl; 
 
 The Scots fo thick about him fwarm'd, 
 That he from fuccour fever'd was 45 
 
 And from his men which Scots had fkail'd ; 
 Yet for all that he kept his place, 
 
 He fiercely fought and never fail'd ; 
 
78 E\}t Ballati of iFlotiliou JielH. 
 
 Till with an edged fword one came 46 
 
 And at his legs below did lafh, 
 And near a fcore of Scots all fam 
 
 Upon his helmet high did hafh. 
 Though he could not withftand fuch ftrength, 47 
 
 Yet never would he flee nor yeild ; 
 Alas ! for want of aid, at length 
 
 He flain was fighting fierce in feild. 
 Down fell this valiant aftive knight, 48 
 
 His body great on ground did lye ; 
 But up to heaven with angels bright 
 
 His golden ghofl did flick'ring flye. 
 After his fall his people fled, 49 
 
 And all that wing did fall to wrack ; 
 Some fighting fierce died in that ftead, 
 
 The reft for terror turn'd their back ; 
 Save Sir Edmond Howard alone, 50 
 
 Who with his ftandard bearer yet, 
 Seeing his folks all fled and gone, 
 
 In haft to vanguard hyed to get. 
 But he Scot-free had not fo 'fcap'd, 51 
 
 For why, right hot Sir Da\id Hume 
 With troop of Scots had him entrapt. 
 
 Had not John Baftard Heron come 
 With half a fcore of horfemen light, 52 
 
 Crying, " Now Howard have good heart, 
 " For unto death till we be dight, 
 
 " I promife here to take thy part." 
 
®;i)c Ballati of Jlotitiou Jtelti. 79 
 
 Which heard, then Howard heart updrew, 53 
 
 And with the fpearmen forth he fprung, 
 And fierce among their foes they flew, 
 
 Where David Hume down dead tliey flung ; 
 And many a Scot that flout did fland 54 
 
 With dreadful ftroke they did reward. 
 So Howard through bold Heron's hand 
 
 Came fafe and found to the vanguard. 
 Where th' admirall, with flrength extent, 55 
 
 Then in the feild fierce fighting was, 
 
 'Gainst whom in battle bold was bent 
 
 Two earls of an antique race : 
 Th'oneCraufford'°+caird,th' other ]Montrofs,'°5 55 
 
 Who led twelve thoufand Scotchmen ftrong, 
 Who manfully met with their foes 
 
 With leaden mells and lances long. 
 There battering blows made fallets found ; 57 
 
 There many a fturdy flroke was given, 
 And many a baron brought to ground. 
 
 And many a banner broad was riven. 
 But yet in fine, through mighty force, 58 
 
 The admiraH quit himfelf fo wefl 
 And wrought fo, that the Scots had worfe, 
 
 For down in feild both earls fell. 
 Then th' earl of Surrey next by eaft 59 
 
 Mofl: fiercely 'gainft his foes he fought, 
 'Gainft whom King Jame in perfon prefl, 
 
 With banners blazed his battle brought. 
 
Wherein was many a baron bold, 60 
 
 And many a lord of lufty blood, 
 And trufty knights well tried and told. 
 
 And mitred prelates paffmg proud. 
 With th' earl of Catnefs and Caftell,'"^ 61 
 
 The earl of Morton and of Marr, 
 With Arell, Adell, and Athell 
 
 With Bothwell bold, and of Glenkarr ;'°7 
 Lord Lovat led a lufty power, 62 
 
 So Cluefton, Inderby, and Rofs ■,'°'' 
 Lord Maxwell with his brethren four, 
 
 With Borthwitk, Bargeny, and Forbes ;"^ 
 Lord Arfkill, Sentclear, and Simpell,"° 63 
 
 With foldiers tried a mighty fum ; 
 All with the king came down the hill. 
 
 With Cowell, Kay, and Caddie Hume ;'" 
 With captains great and commons ftout, 64 
 
 'Bove twenty thoufand men at leaft. 
 Which with the king moft fierce on foot 
 
 Againft their foes was then addreft. 
 The earl of Surrey on th' Englifli fide 65 
 
 Encouraged his foldiers keen. 
 Crying — " Good fellows, ftrike this tide ;- 
 
 " Now let your doughty deeds be feen !" 
 Then fpears and pikes to work were put, 66 
 
 And blows with bills moft dure were delt, 
 And many a cap of fteel through cut. 
 
 And fwinging fwaps made many fwelt. 
 
i 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eljz aSallaa of ffmun Jtellr. 
 
 8r 
 
 
 
 There many a foldier fell in foun, 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 On either fide with wounds right fore, 
 
 
 
 
 And many a flrong man ftrucken down 
 
 
 
 
 In dying rageoufly did roar. 
 
 
 
 
 On one fide death triumphant reign'd 
 
 68 
 
 
 
 And flopt their pains as well as groans ; 
 
 
 
 
 Of thofe who piercing wounds had gain'd, 
 
 
 
 
 The hills did echo with their moans. 
 
 
 
 
 THE NINTH FIT. 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 
 
 Then on the Scottifh part right proud 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 The earl of Bothwell did outbraft, 
 
 
 
 
 And ftepping forth with flomach good 
 
 
 
 
 Into the enemies' throng did thrafl, 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 And " Bothwell ! Bothwell !" cried bold, 
 
 To caufe his foldiers to enfue ; 
 But there he catcht a welcome cold, 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 The Englifhmen ftraight down him threw ; 
 
 
 
 Thus Haburn"' through his hardy heart 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 His fatal fine in confli6l found. 
 
 
 
 
 Now all this while on either part 
 
 
 
 
 Was dealt full many a deadly wound ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
82 EfjE Ballatr of JlotJion JtclD, 
 
 On either fide were foldiers flain 4 
 
 And ftricken down by ftrength of hand, 
 That who fhould win none weet might plain ; 
 
 The viftory in doubt did ftand, 
 Till at the laft great Stanley flout 5 
 
 Came marching up the mountain fteep ; 
 His folks could hardly faft the foot ; 
 
 But forc'd on hands and feet to creep. 
 Some from the leg the boot would draw, 6 
 
 That toes might take the better hold, 
 And fome from foot the llioe would throw : 
 
 Of true men thus I have been told. 
 The fweat down from their bodies ran, 7 
 
 And hearts did hop in panting breaft, 
 Until the mountain top they wan 
 
 In warlike wife, ere Scotsmen wift ; 
 Where for a fpace brave Stanley ftay'd, 8 
 
 Until his folks had taken breath, 
 To whom all fam e'en thus he faid : 
 
 " Moft hardy mates, down from this heath 
 " Againft our foes faft let us hye, 9 
 
 " Our valiant countrymen to aid ; 
 " With fighting fierce, I fear me, I, 
 
 " Through ling'ring long they be o'erlaid. 
 "My Lancafliire moft lively wights 10 
 
 " And chofen mates of Chefhire ftrong, 
 " From founding bows your feather'd flights 
 
 " Let fiercely fly your foes among. 
 
Ete Ballali of Jlotttion JFtelti. 83 
 
 " March down from this high mountain top, i i 
 
 " And brunt of battle let us bide 
 " With ftomachs ftout ; let's make no flop, 
 
 " And Stanley ftout will be your guide. 
 " A fcourge for Scots my father was ; 1 2 
 
 "He Barwick town from them did gain. 
 "No doubt but ere this day fhall pafs. 
 
 " His fon like fortune fhall obtain. 
 " And now the earl of Surrey fore 13 
 
 " The Scots, I fee, befets this tide ; 
 " Now, fmce with foes he fights before, 
 
 "We'll fuddenly fet on their fide." — 
 The noife then made the mountains ring, 14 
 
 And " Stanley ftout !" they all did crye. 
 Out went anon the grey goofe wing, 
 
 Amongft the Scots did flick'ring flye ; 
 And fhowers of arrows fharp were fhot, 15 
 
 They rattling ran as rank as hail, 
 And pierced the fcalp of many a Scot : 
 
 No fhield or pavifh could prevail. 
 Although the Scots at Stanley's name 16 
 
 Were 'ftonifht fore, yet ftout they ftood. 
 And for defence did fiercely frame. 
 
 And arrows' dint with danger bode. 
 Lord Borthwick, Bargeny, and Forbes, 17 
 
 With them ten thoufand Scotsmen ftrong, 
 Through death endur'd with danger force ; 
 
 Right ftoutly yet they ftood to 't long. 
 
This when the Stanley flout did fee, i8 
 
 Into the throng he thund'ring thraft. 
 ■" My lovely Lancafhire lads," quoth he, 
 
 " Down with the Scots ! the day we waft.'' — 
 The foes he forc'd to break their 'ray, 19 
 
 And many a life was loft that while ; 
 No voice was heard but " Kill and flay," 
 
 Down goes the earl of Argyle ; 
 The earl of Lenox' luck was like, 20 
 
 He fighting fierce was flain that tide ; 
 Lord Forbes, Bargeny, and Borthwick, 
 
 Upon that bent did breathlefs bide. 
 And fo the earl of Huntley's hap 21 
 
 Had been, refembling to the reft ; 
 But that through fkill he made a 'fcape. 
 
 With an Englifh blade he had been bleft. 
 But he by hap had horfe at hand, 22 
 
 On which he fcouring 'fcapt away ; 
 Elfe doubtlefs as the cafe did ftand. 
 
 On Floddon hill he'd dyed that day. 
 After thefe lords were dead or fled, 23 
 
 The companies, left captainlefs. 
 Being fore aftonifht in that ftead. 
 
 Did fall to flight, both more or lefs ; 
 Whom Stanley with his total ftrength 24 
 
 Purfued right fore down on the plain, 
 Where on the King he light at length 
 
 Which fighting was with all his main. 
 
K\}e 15aUali of jj^lontion JieltJ. 85 
 
 When his approach the King perceiv'd, 25 
 
 With ftomach flout he him withflood ; 
 His Scots right bravely them behav'd 
 
 And boldly there the battle bode, 
 Then fhowers of arrows fierce outbroke, 26 
 
 And each part did fo pierce and gall. 
 That ere they came to handy ftroke, 
 
 A number great on ground did fall. 
 The King himfelf was wounded fore, 27 
 
 An arrow fierce in's forehead light, 
 That hardly he could fight any more, 
 
 The blood fo blemifhed his fight. 
 Yet like a warrior flout he ftay'd, 28 
 
 And fiercely did exhort that tide 
 His men to be nothing difmay'd. 
 
 But battle boldly there to bide. 
 " Fight on, my men," the King then faid, 29 
 
 "Yet fortune fhe may turn the fcale, 
 " And at my wounds be not difmay'd, 
 
 " Nor ever let your courage fail." — 
 Thus dying did he brave appear, 3fi 
 
 Till fhades of death did clofe his eyes ; 
 Till then he did his foldiers chear 
 
 And raife their courage to the fkies. 
 But what avail'd his valour great, 3 1 
 
 Or bold device ? All was but vain : 
 His captains keen fail'd at his feet, 
 
 And ftandard bearer down was flain. 
 
 -1- 
 
86 s:|jj Ballati of Jlotrlfon JielH. 
 
 Th' archbifhop of St. Andrew brave,'' 32 
 
 King Jame his fon in bafe begot, 
 That doleful day did death receive 
 
 With many a lufty lordlike Scot, 
 Lord Erfkine, Sinclair, and Sempel, 33 
 
 Morton, and Fair, for all their power, 
 The earl of Erroll and Athell, 
 
 Lord Maxwell with his brethren four. 
 And laft of all amongft the lave 34 
 
 King Jame himfelf to death was brought ; 
 Yet by whofe hands none could perceive. 
 
 But Stanley ftill moft like was thought. 
 After the King and captains flain, 35 
 
 The commons ftraight did fall to ground ; 
 The Englifhmen purfued amain 
 
 And never ceaf'd till fun went down. 
 Then the earl Surrey caufed to found 36 
 
 A trumpet to retreat anon. 
 And captains cauf'd to keep their ground 
 
 Till morrow next while night was gone. 
 And th' Englifh foldiers all that night, 37 
 
 Although they weary were with toil. 
 The Scotsmen coftly flain in fight 
 
 Of jewels rich fpar'd not to fpoil. 
 The corpfe of many a worthy wight 38 
 
 They uncaf'd of his comely 'ray. 
 And many a baron brave and knight 
 
 Their bodies there all naked lay. 
 
€\)z Ballati of Jlottion jFtelti. 87 
 
 The carcafe of the king himfelf 39 
 
 Naked was left as it was born ; 
 The earl could not know it fo well, 
 
 Searching the fame upon the morn ; 
 Till the Lord Dacres at the laft 40 
 
 By certain figns did him bewray ; 
 The corpfe then in a cart being cafl, 
 
 They to Newcaftle did convey. 
 The certain fum being fearched out, 41 
 
 Twelve thoufand Scots died in that ftead ; 
 On th' Englifh fide were flain about 
 
 Some fifteen hundred as we read ; 
 Yet never a nobleman of fame, 42 
 
 But Bryan Tunftall bold, alas, 
 Whofe corpfe home to his burial came 
 
 With worfliip great, as worthy was. 
 Great ftore of guns and warlike gear 43 
 
 Where as the field was fought was found. 
 Which they to Barwick then, being near, 
 
 And to Newcaftle carried round. 
 This feild was fought in September, 44 
 
 In chronicles as may be feen, 
 In th' year of God, as I remember, 
 
 Thoufand three hundred and thirteen. 
 
 THE END. 
 
ANNOTATIONS 
 
 AND 
 
 ^ avians ^eabinig^. 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS : 
 
 W. for Weber; L. for Lambe; B. for Benson; F. for Fragments; 
 A.S. for Anglo-Saxon. 
 
 The marginal numbers refer to the Stanzas, 
 
 FIT I. 
 
 I. — The word fit, from the Anglo-Saxon FixTE^song, fittian 
 ^sing, is equivalent to canto, division. Thomas Gent 
 mistook it for fight. 
 This poem being evidently part of a larger work dealing 
 with the French wars in the early part of Henry VIII's 
 reign, the transcriber of this portion of the original 
 manuscript found it necessary to insert in this stanza 
 the king's name, "King Henry's affairs," and it was so 
 printed by both Lambe and Weber. The latter has 
 " wars" for "jars." 
 2. — Field, feild, and feilde, throughout this poem has the 
 signification of battle, battle-field, and camp ; compare 
 Shakespeare, Henry VI., i. i. This stanza is thus given 
 by W. :— 
 
 A fearful field in verse to frame 
 
 I mean, if that to mark ye list ; 
 O Floddon Mount, thy fearful name 
 Doth sore affray my trembling fist. 
 3._"Thou God of War!" W. has "Almighty Mars!" 
 The same editor inserts here the following stanza : — 
 You Muses all, my mind incense. 
 
 And thou, Polymnia, most prudent, 
 Lest Nemesis for each offense 
 With poet's rod make me repent." 
 
 6. — The last three lines of this stanza read in W. — 
 The haughty Howard's noble act } 
 Though paper none did make report, 
 Fame would not fail such noble fact." 
 
go E\}c Ballati of Jlotitton JielU. 
 
 ■J, — " Wond'rous man ; " W. has — 
 
 stiff in stour 
 Thou imp of Mars, thy worthy meeds 
 Who can discourse with due honour, 
 Or paint with praise th)' valiant deeds ? 
 9.— BLAz'D=blazoned, adorned, figured, from the French 
 
 BLASONXER. 
 
 Bravely, used here in both its meanings, viz. gaudily 
 
 (blaz'd), and courageously (borne). 
 FoRLORNE = taken off; compare Spenser's Faene Queen, 
 " Is all his force forlorn." 
 II. — Transfleet = sail across. I am unable to meet with 
 
 another instance of this boldly coined word. 
 DisEA.sE^trouble. 
 
 12. — The first three lines in W. are : — 
 For he, perusing in presence 
 
 Of En,-li^h kings their battles bold. 
 He saw how Scots in their absence 
 This stanza is evidently one of those to which Gent alludes 
 wher. he says : " In the first part of these battles it was 
 very hard to make out the copy, it being much obliterated, 
 and the leaves worn out in many places, so that some 
 words ^vere forced to be added. 
 
 I 3. LEAST^lest. 
 
 Teene = harm, injury; from the A.S. teona. Shake- 
 speare has "a week of teen," Richard III. iv. i. 
 14. — Bad, old perfect of to bid, to command. The A.S. form 
 of the verb is beodan, head, geboden. 
 
 17. — Bo\\'=bowman, archer. 
 
 j8. — :\Iack= equal, match, kind. A.S. maca, gejiaca. 
 
 " What mack </ thing's yon.^"=What kind of a thing is 
 that (Crayen dialect.) 
 20. — LusTY=stout, vigorous. 
 23. — ABODE=sta)'. " I\Iy long abode," Merehant of Venice, ii. q. 
 
 25. — Earl. W. has : — 
 
 The earl then his tenants tall 
 Martially in musters did elect, 
 which is a better reading than Gent's. The word EARL is 
 here, as in many other parts of the ballad, a dissyllable, 
 the initial e being sounded as y. This fact is a proof 
 
Efje aSallali of JloUlion Jteltt. 91 
 
 that the writer of the ballad was a native of one of the 
 three Northumbrian counties, in which alone the Norse 
 or Danish form yarl was and is still used, whilst in the 
 rest of the kingdom the monosyllabic A.S. eorl was 
 heard. 
 
 26. — GEER=gear. 
 
 House of Fence = fortified building. We find in Sir 
 Walter Scott's Monastery a good description of such 
 forts : "In each village or town were several small towers, 
 having battlements projecting over the side walls, and 
 usually an advanced angle or two, with shot-holes for 
 flanking the doorway, which was also defended by a 
 strong door of oak, and often by an exterior door of 
 iron. These small peel-houses were ordinarily inhabited 
 by the principal fuars (feudal tenants) and their families ; 
 but upon the alarm of approaching danger, the whole 
 inhabitants thronged from their own miserable cottages, 
 which were situated around, to garrison these points of 
 defence." 
 
 27. — His Distress = to harass him. 
 
 28. — Street =road; A.S. straet. 
 
 "To run," is "to prick" in W. 
 
 " He knew of it," is "he straight did weet" in W. 
 
 29. — LiGHT=alighted. 
 
 W. has "wappingwas" for " was nimbly ; " and "bruit 
 
 abroad" for " all abroad." 
 
 BLAz'D^published ; see gloss to stanza 9, ante. 
 
 30. — " Forced was ;" W. has more correctly " fared was"=had 
 gone. 
 "Into complaisance" is "to his obeysance" in W. 
 
 3 1 . — Still As^whenever. 
 34. — BAND=bond. 
 40. — SoNE^soon. 
 
 41. — " Lewis chosen " is "Lewis, your cousin" in W. 
 W. has "hing" for "spring." 
 
 3. — W. has "you see what damage," for "you know what 
 hurt." 
 
 44. — GRiEF=difficulty. 
 
 46. — JouLT-HEAD = with bloated heads ; derived from jole = 
 face or cheek, the etymology of which is uncertain, 
 
92 €\}t Ballatf of Jlouaon Jielli. 
 
 though probability points to the A.S. CEAFL=jaw. To 
 this same root we should refer the modern adjective 
 JOLLY as applied to personal appearance, rather than to 
 the French jolif. 
 
 BuRSTEN = ruptured ; sufifering from hernia. 
 
 Freers = friars, 
 ^y. — SHivES=slices. The A.S. forni shivere occurs in Chaucer. 
 
 MlLLNERS=millers. 
 
 Clerks z= clerici. 
 
 The last two lines of this stanza are a \cry evident re- 
 miniscence of "The Reeves' Tale" in Chaucer. 
 
 4.9. — BoDWORD=message, from BODE=messenger. There is 
 nothing "ominous" about this word as Lambe supposes. 
 51. — W. — There is an earl, of antique race, 
 
 Passing in pride and costly array ; 
 In his banner brave he displays 
 A halfmoon in gold glist'ring gay. 
 
 53. — TALBOT=hound ; beagle. The supporters of the earl of 
 Shrewsbury's arms are two talbots argent. 
 TYKE=dog ; terrier. 
 
 Skrike = shriek ; Danish skrige. The word is still 
 used in the northern dialects. 
 
 5y. — Lave = remainder. Provincial word of the north-eastern 
 
 counties. 
 58. — PLUMP=cluster. W. has "clump." 
 Boyst'rous = bellowing. 
 
 59. — HiGHT = named. A.S. hatan, heht, hex. — German 
 HEissEN. — The disuse in modern English of this exceed- 
 ingly useful word in its two meanings of " to bid" and 
 "to be named" is much to be deplored. 
 HoLD=wager ; stake. 
 
 60. — Stomach throughout this poem is used in the signification 
 of courage. 
 
 62. — ITABERGEON=hauberk, neck-piece of armour. 
 Naggs = steeds. 
 WAXEN=grown. 
 
 64. — W. has " and plyed " for " complying." 
 
 65. — BiDE=stay. 
 
 The first line reads thus in W. — 
 
 With that on Lyon loud he 1 ried. 
 
E\)c aSallaH of JFlo^Iion JielB. 93 
 
 67.— W. has the fourth line thus : — 
 
 And make from me full defiance. 
 
 69. — HAL'D=hoisted. 
 
 W. — Then Lyon made him boun lightly, 
 
 And with his coat of arms him deck'd : 
 He haled up sail right heartily 
 
 And towards France his way direct. 
 
 FIT II. 
 
 I. — W. gives the second line thus : — 
 
 Which pricking posts apace did bear. 
 
 3. — MELL^mace. 
 
 GRiSLY=horrible. 
 
 GiSARiNGS = halberts ; pole-axes. The word is of 
 Anglo-Norman origin, and occurs in Chaucer under the 
 
 form GYSARME. 
 
 4. — PiKEFORKS=two-pronged pikes. 
 
 6. — W. — The tillmen tough their teams could take 
 And to hard harness them conflate ; 
 One of a share can shortly make 
 A sallet for to save his pate. 
 
 8. — W. — Whereof the king, in heart full fain 
 
 His men had all things ready made. 
 Did then command his chamberlain 
 In England for to make a raid. 
 
 9. — HAST=haste. 
 
 The last two lines are given in W. thus : — 
 Within the English borders brast 
 
 With full eight thousand men and moe. 
 
 1 1 . — LooN=rascal. 
 
 The third line reads thus in W. — 
 
 Some coursers got, some geldings good. 
 
 12. — W. — Most stately halls, and houses gay. 
 
 And buildings brave, they boldly burned ; 
 And with a mighty spoil and prey. 
 
 Toward Scotland they straight returned. 
 
 13, 14, 15, & 16 do not occur in the MS. from which W. took 
 his edition. They are evidently an interpolation by 
 
94 ^¥ iSallatf of JFloDUon Jtelti. 
 
 the copyist from whose transcript Gent took his edition, 
 and who thereby gives us a clue to his own place of origin. 
 
 15. — Eye is still pronounced ee in the northern dialects, and 
 makes therefore a correct rhyme to " piety." 
 
 17. — Rout = rush, multitude; W. has "road." 
 
 18. — W. has " all their rout " for " horse and foot." 
 
 19. — Ken ^ know. German, kennen 
 
 Coasts ^ ground, territory. W. has " course." 
 
 20. — Scouring =: passing rapidly. 
 Pricked = galloped. 
 " Out of their way," W. has " clear out of'ray." 
 
 21. — Anox = presently. 
 
 22. — Spells ^ splinters. This term is commonly used in all 
 the northern counties. 
 
 23. — Extend ^ keep up. 
 
 26. — W. — For prickers him so nigh pursued. 
 
 His banner bearer down they bet ; 
 And all the prey and spoil rescued, 
 Besides a sort of geldings get. 
 
 27. — W. — Six hundred Scots lay slain on ground. 
 Five hundred prisoners and more ; 
 Of Englishmen slain in that stound, 
 The number was not past threescore. 
 
 28.— W.— The day still black with Scottish blood ! 
 As diverse old men yet do tell. 
 The Scots call it the devilish road. 
 
 30. — Terwin =^ Terouanne in Picardy. 
 
 " Bow'd him low ;" W. " louring low." 
 
 31. — W. — The king he reverently gan greet, 
 
 And took to him his letters large ; 
 His master's mind he let him weet, 
 And did his message whole discharge. 
 Discharge = unfold, declare. 
 
 33. — " Raise," W. " cease. — " sta}'," W. " eke." 
 The third line is given thus by W. : — 
 Or else he with a mighty press. 
 
 35. — "Sires never brave," W, "predecessors prave " /.e. de- 
 praved. 
 
Ei)t ISallat) of JlotJtion JTirln. 95 
 
 — First line, W. "Which will withstand him stiff in stour." 
 
 — " Mad," W. " wood." The latter is the older form. 
 
 -" Harrass," W. " harry." 
 
 — " Union make," W. " loveday take." 
 
 — " Banishing all fears," W. " fast of full defiance." 
 
 — Last two lines in W. — 
 
 " Then homewards he away gan wend. 
 And towards Scotland forth he far'd. 
 
 45. — Bent = ready. 
 
 46. — Last line in W. — All that was done straightNvay he wist. 
 
 48. — "Truth," W. " sooth. " Raise for to engage ;'' W. "soon 
 to fee and wage." 
 
 49. — W. — Which when the earl understood, 
 His letters fast he forth did dress 
 Unto each man of noble blood. 
 To have their men in readiness. 
 
 50. — "tell," W. "eke." "Valiant men," W. "warlike wights." 
 
 51. — Third line, W. — " Which to his bidding soon was bent." 
 
 52. — CuLVERiNES. The culverine was one of the earlier forms 
 of cannon, generally an i8 pounder, of very great length, 
 and weighing 50 cwt. 
 
 "Mortars," W. has "cortals;"' Lambe (after Gent) has 
 "portals," with the suggestion that perhaps "portcuUices" 
 were meant. The idea of carrying "portcullices" amongst 
 the baggage of an army, is worthy of a Northumbrian 
 country vicar and truly good man. The term " mortar," 
 at the time when this poem was written, began to be used 
 side by side with the older term " bumbard," which it 
 afterwards superseded. 
 
 Stee ^ ladder, hurdle. A northern dialect word, still 
 in use. Lambe's gloss of " steed" is inadmissible. 
 
 "Great" in the north-eastern dialects becomes " gert," 
 and may therefore be allowed to rhyme with " cart." 
 
 53. — " The noble Lord then," W. " That done, the earl." 
 
 54.—" Keep," W. " beat." Fourth line in W.— 
 
 Till the king came home with their rescue. 
 
96 E\)t Ballan of JFlotition Jtelti. 
 
 55. — "The noble earl ilid much," W. "The earl Surre}- greatly 
 did." " I mtan to write," \\'. " then will I write." 
 
 56. — Busked r= prepared. Icelandic iiuAsc, bua-sik, and 
 BUAST =■ to prepare oneself ; see an exhaustive article on 
 this verb in Latliam' s Dictionary, s.v. busk. 
 
 57. — W. — When they were all assembled sam 
 The town of Edenbrough before, 
 Fifty great lords there were of fame. 
 And barons bold besides great store. 
 
 58. — Populous lave =: numerous remainder. 
 
 59. — "And quite against,'' W. "contrary to." "That too," 
 W. " specially." 
 
 61.—" Mark," W. " prick." Fourth line in W.— 
 " Ne'er taught them any such a trick." 
 62.— Learn = teach. 
 
 Shored ^ propped. The diagonal cross, resting on 
 two arms, is still called St. Andrew's cross. 
 63. — "Bold as all," W. "eke, bold as." 
 
 Beagel rod = pastoral staff, a corruption of the 
 ecclesiastical Latin word i;aculu.s. Beagle rods are 
 made of metal, hollow. 
 
 64. — Prest ^ ready. From the old French prest := pret . 
 The third line in W. — 
 
 " So that in numbers they did exceed." 
 
 65.—" Smile," W. "jet." " Great," W. " huge." 
 The last two lines in \\'. — 
 
 Then soon he bade them forward set, 
 And eke blaze out his banners bold. 
 
 66. — " Train," W. " crew." 
 
 The last two lines in W . — 
 
 Then minstrels mirthed all the land. 
 And brazen trumpets loud up blew. 
 67. — \^^ — Then drums struck up with hideous sound. 
 And banners bravely waved wide ; 
 Men might nowhere behold bare ground. 
 68.—" Graceful," W. " stoutly." 
 
 69. — W. — King James thus gorgeously gan ride. 
 Great pleasure to his peers to see ; 
 Thus rode this prince, puff d up with pride. 
 Whose lofty heart was but too high. 
 
 "I" 
 
E\}t aSallaU of JTIoDUon JtelU. 97 
 
 70. — W. — For he thought himself able enough, 
 Having so mighty a multitudej 
 All Europe then for to pass through, 
 And that no hold could him exclude. 
 
 71.— "He thought us;" W. " Nor any." " An emperour ;" W. 
 " the great Caesar." 
 
 72. — Sophy = emperor of Persia. 
 SoLDAN =: sultan of Turkey. 
 "Work;" W. "lurk." "valiant;" W. "lusty." 
 
 73. — Second line in W. — And eke for all his haughty heart. 
 
 "Ghost," W. "host." "And brought," W. "When 
 brought." 
 
 j^_ — W. — Even in the midst of harvest-tide. 
 
 The two-and-twentieth of August, 
 Did this proud prince, puft up with pride, 
 Into the English borders burst. 
 
 75. — Pills = peel-towers, or hill forts. Welsh pill = fort, 
 stake. This name is still given to the towers erected on 
 the Scottish borders for defence. They are square, with 
 turrets at the angles, and the door is sometimes at a height 
 from the ground. The lower story is usually vaulted, and 
 formed a stable for horses, cattle, &c. For an account of 
 these old towers, now mostly in ruins, see Chambers' 
 History of Peeblesshire. 
 " Stately ;" W. " burly." " Loons ;" W. " grooms." 
 Fourth line, W. — Or soldiers sacred to Mahound, i.e. 
 
 Mahomet. 
 Loon = clown. 
 
 ^6. — Third line, W. — " And houses burnt, and bent up gear." 
 77. — Is not given in Weber's edition. 
 
 FIT III. 
 
 I. — W. — For so the king commanded had. 
 
 To waste and spoil with fire and flame ; 
 And rifling so by journies rade. 
 
 To Norham castle strait they came. 
 
 2 . — Bombard =mortar. 
 
98 STfje Ballati of Jlotiticin Jteln. 
 
 4. — Last two lines, W. — 
 
 Alas too lewd'ly he lash'd out, 
 
 And foolishly his ordnance spend. 
 Lash ouT=to breakout; to be extravagant. Latham, s.v. 
 
 4. — Fourth line, W. — 
 
 " What should have been his chief succour." 
 HAL'D=thre\v. 
 
 5. — " Assaults ;" W. " hard 'saults." 
 ExTEND=brought out. 
 
 6. — " Was it not for a ;" W. " Had it not been a false." 
 
 -j. — "Your brave assaults," W. " Your 'deavours here." 
 Last two lines, W. — 
 
 For all your 'saults and hard besiege 
 Of gunshot here ye get no gain. 
 
 10. — First line, W. — Then first of all refuse this place. 
 
 "Your batteries will," W. "And with brief battery." 
 
 II. — Last two lines, W. — 
 
 And ere five piece were shot or mo, 
 The walls were all to-razed and rent. 
 
 12. — W. — Which made the captain sore agast, 
 
 Seeing the walls down rattling reel'd ; 
 His weapons all away he cast, 
 And to king James simp!}- did yield. 
 
 13. — First line, W. — The Scots anon the^- scoured in. 
 "Take," W. " bear't." 
 
 14. — Fourth line, W. — For his reward ready to look. 
 
 15. — "Town," W. "place." 
 Last two lines, W. — 
 
 The false knave nothing did deny, 
 But said a Scotchman born he was 
 
 16. — Meek and mild," W. " with words mild." 
 
 Third line, W. Quoth he, Still since I was a child. 
 
 18.— "Heart," W. "faith." 
 
 "Thou never canst," VV. "That thou wilt not." 
 
 19. — Trace ^ rope. 
 
 20. — W. — What he had said forepast was nought, 
 
 The king's judgment was worthy praise ; 
 If he in all things had so wrought. 
 Belike he had driven forth more days. 
 
E\}e Ballati of Jlotilion Jieto. 99 
 
 21.— "Flying posts," W. "pricking post." "Of Scotland's 
 hosts," W. " \vith a great host." 
 
 23. — W. — That the first day of September, 
 
 Both gentlemen, knights, lords, and squire, 
 Unto Newcastle should repair. 
 24. — W. — Himself set forth in fine array. 
 
 And neither stint, nor staid his foot. 
 But strait to Durham took his way. 
 25. — " Prayers," W. "mass." 
 Last two lines, W. — 
 
 Then pray'd the prayer of that place. 
 Saint Cuthbert's banner for to bear. 
 
 26. — " Repair'd," W. " did draw." 
 
 27.— "Valiant," W. "doughty." "Noble," W. "burly." 
 " Men," W. " wights." " Compleat," W. " replete." 
 
 28. — Second line, W. — " Accompanied with his seemly sons." 
 Rout =: multitude. 
 
 Clapping =: booming. Compare the substantive clap 
 of thunder, and the AUemannic klepfen (Switzerland 
 and Suabia). 
 
 29. — " Soon he went," W. " gan he flit." 
 
 Anwick = Alnwick, pronounced Annick. 
 "Travel spent,', W. " weather bit." 
 Fourth line, W. — 
 
 Might have the more easement and room. 
 RooN^rest. Teutonic ruh. Morris quotes in his Specimens 
 
 of Early English the adjective ROOLESS := restless. In 
 
 the form ROOM, given by Weber and Lambe (after 
 
 Gent) there is neither rhyme nor reason. 
 
 " Town," Northumbrian pronunciation " toon,'' will of 
 
 course rhyme to " roon." 
 
 30. — " With shining," W. " Here silken." " Glittering from 
 afar," W. " high glist'ring afar." 
 
 31. — W. — From Lancashire nnd Cheshire fast, 
 They to the lusty Stanley drew ; 
 From Hornby where as he in hast 
 Set forward with a comely crew. 
 
 33. — Chear = mien, face. Compare Italian cera. 
 
 34. — This stanza is not given by Lambe (Gent) ; an oversight, 
 I suppose, for it exists in all the manuscripts. 
 
loo E\}t Ballati of JloMon JtelD. 
 
 In harness horse = harnessed on horseback. 
 Took little force = lost their comfort. 
 This and the preceding stanza are amongst the most 
 beautiful in this poem, full of touching pathos. 
 
 35. — Lambe, in pious horror, substituted the word "prayers" 
 for masses ;" see also stanza 25, ante. 
 Eke ::= too, also. 
 
 37.— Beds should of course be beads as given by Weber. 
 
 Out is pronounced "oot" in the north eastern dialects, 
 and therefore may be allowed to rhyme to " foot." 
 
 38. — On hight = on high. 
 
 39. — "In yon," W. "is yon." "Did enquire," W. "he did cry." 
 
 40. — Second line, W. — " A cock curling as he would crow." 
 Curling = bending back. 
 
 42. — Blaze out = unfold. 
 
 43. — Tide = time. Norse tid, Allemannic zit. The word 
 is still used in Yorkshire for the commemoration or dedi- 
 cation feast of the various parishes, degenerated to a 
 village fair. Compare the German Iahrzeit. In the 
 proverb "time and tide wait for no man," we have the 
 northern and southern equivalent placed together in pun- 
 ning alliteration. It is questionable whether the concrete 
 entity " ocean tide " entered at all into the original idea 
 of the proverb, seeing that flood-tide really means 
 nothing else but flood-time, and ebbIx\g-tide := time 
 of ebbing, and that therefore the word Tides is a mere 
 equivalent to times. 
 
 44. — First line, W. — Then said the Stanley where he stood. 
 Third line, W. — Be not amazed in vour mood. 
 " Valiant," W. " doughty." " Tho' " W. " For." 
 
 45. — First line, W. — Set forward, sirs, then did he say. 
 
 Third line, W. — And being sore wearied with the way. 
 
 46. — "Flapping wings," W. "wings wapped ;" Gent "wrapping 
 wings." 
 Bare = bore (could have carried). 
 
 47. — W. — At Alnwick while the army increased. 
 The weather waxt both foul and wet ; 
 With rain down rattling never ceased, 
 That every brook burst forth on float. 
 
E\)t aSallati of JlotiUon JtelK. loi 
 
 48. — W. — Such rustling winds, such blust'ring blast, 
 Down rushing day and night did sound. 
 Which made the earl full sore agast 
 
 His son lord Admiral should be drown'd. 
 
 49. — "All his might,'' W. " main and might." 
 
 Fourth line, W. — His fleet in merry '--xy to 'rive. 
 
 50. — W. — Sir Neptune did such friendship shew ; 
 And safely then, him and his fleet. 
 To happy haven did bestow. 
 
 S I . — Hy'd = hastened. A. S. higan. 
 " In arms," W. " at least." 
 
 53. — "Divers," W. "many." 
 
 54.—" Hasted as," W. " fast busied." 
 
 55._" Truth," W. "sooth." 
 
 56. — Hert = heart. 
 
 58. — KiST = kissed. 
 
 Eyen, the old plural of eye, still used in various dialects, 
 
 especially in the north. 
 FOREPAST = former. 
 
 5(5. — SoNE = soon. 
 
 60. — Atchieve = accomplish. 
 
 To PASS BACK = to send back. 
 
 "Counties," W. "countries." 
 
 62.— " Fail," W. "flee." 
 
 Fourth line, W.— Thus the earl Surrey did admonish. 
 
 63. — Hot = angry. 
 
 64.—" Nor ever," W. " Let it ne'er be." 
 
 65.—" Governour," W. "lieutenant." "Treacherous," W. 
 " scoulding." 
 Third Line, W. — Trusting that fiercely without fear. 
 
 66. — W. — Think on your father's valiance, 
 
 How fierce he fought at Bosworth-field ; 
 Till time that he by Stanley's lance 
 
 With grievous wounds his life did yield 1 
 67. — W. — Would God, quoth he, my brother Edward 
 Were here alive this present day 1 
 No foes there could have made him fear'd 
 In camp here like a coward to stay. 
 
 70.—" Glorious," W. " worthy." 
 
I02 E\)c JSallati of JIotiUDn Jieltr. 
 
 7 1. — Swage ^ assuage, to beat down. 
 
 ■72. — W. — Your father's fame then should be 'filed, 
 His worthy facts should be forgot ; 
 The chief renown eke of your child, 
 Your beastish acts should clear outblot. 
 
 74.— Space = time. 
 
 FIT IV. 
 
 1. — First two lines, W. — 
 
 Then the earl of Surrey again replied, 
 And to his son thus gan he say : 
 3. — " Great," \V. "wise." " Which way our cards," W. " Our 
 cards them both." 
 
 4. — Hap = fortune. 
 
 " Off Brest," Lambe "of breast." 
 
 5. — " A living man," W. " man alive." 
 Fourth line, W. — 
 
 This end his great boldness him brought. 
 
 7. — Bet =: beaten. 
 
 8. — Scripture = handwriting. 
 
 g. — Reaved = bereft. 
 
 Guerdon =; recompense ; taken unaltered from the 
 French. 
 
 ir — HixGs = hangs. A. S. hingan = to hang. The Craven 
 dialect still has kings. 
 
 12. — "Fright,'' W. "fraught." The former in the signification 
 of " frightened." The latter of "burdened;" compare 
 the modern " freighted." 
 
 15. — Compass cast = make a forecast. 
 Tast = taste. 
 
 17. — Put case = supposing. 
 
 18. — Convince = overcome, in the meaning of the Latin root 
 
 VINCERE. 
 
 20. — Fourth line, W. — 
 
 And our brave troops how seemly drest. 
 
 23.— "Mighty," W. "noble." 
 
 24. — "Valiant son," W. "son alone." 
 
€\)e Ballati of Jlotition JidtJ. 103 
 
 26. — Puissance = power. Taken unaltered from the French ; 
 frequently used by Shakespeare and Spenser. 
 
 27. — Blin =: cease. A.S. blinnan =: to stop. 
 
 29. — Ta'en = taken, still used in all the northern dialects. 
 W. has " drawn," which does not rhyme to slain. 
 
 31. — Third line, W. — 
 
 Since yet the fame doth record reeke {i.e. bring) 
 Facts = deeds. 
 This stanza refers to Henry V. of England. 
 
 33. — DiGHT = doomed. A.S. dihtan = to prepare, to deck, 
 to set out. 
 "Who shall dight your bowr's, sith she's dead," Spenser's 
 Daphnaida. 
 34. — Stint = stopped. A.S. stintan = to stop, to limit. 
 " Stinted pasture," in Yorkshire, is pasturage for a 
 definite number of cattle. 
 35. — Dolphin = Dauphin, or Crown Prince, of France. The 
 title of dauphin (Latin delphinus) was adopted in 
 1349, by Charles de Valois, grandson of Philippe VI. 
 of France, upon the demise, sine prole, of Humbert 
 H., last duke of Dauphine, who bequeathed his duchy 
 to the crown of France, on condition that the heir 
 apparent should always be the governor of Dauphine 
 and assume its arms, the crest of which was a dolphin. 
 Bet = beat. 
 38. — First line, W. — If we in field be fighting slain. 
 Aye ^ ever. 
 
 Out-sound = proclaim. The use of verbs with separable 
 prefixes, in exact analogy with modern German use, 
 was very common in our earlier English writers ; 
 ouT-BERE, out-toke, in-sprang, &c., are examples 
 of this use. There is a tendency to its reintroduction 
 into current English observable in the formation of 
 such verbal substantives as out-put (of coal), 
 INDRAUGHT (of a mine), ingathering, intake (re- 
 claimed moorland), &c. 
 39. — Hast = hasten. 
 
 40. — Wreak = avenge. A.S. wrecan, German r^chen. 
 Dint = blow. 
 Doleful = smarting ; in the meaning of the Latin root 
 
 DOLOR, pain. 
 Till time = until. 
 
104 Cf)c Ballao of JlotiHott Jtelti. 
 
 41. — Case = state. W. has " cause." i 
 
 42. 
 
 43 
 44' 
 
 4S 
 
 , — Light = fall out. | 
 
 " That to," W. " we do." 
 
 -Give the foil = to worst. 
 
 -Passing = exceedingly. 
 "With barons," W. "great barons." 
 
 —"Whose," Lambe "their." 
 
 Their ent'ring," W. " ent'ring our." 
 " Their charges they shall pay," L. " the charges shall pay 
 us." 
 
 46. — W. — Such fate shall them befal, I trust. 
 As elders theirs have done before ; 
 Who into England seld did brust, (seld = occasion- 
 ally) 
 But they were brust in battle sore. 
 Brust = burst. The form brussen is common in the 
 West Riding of Yorkshire. 
 
 47.— TiNMOTH = Tynemouth. The local pronunciation is 
 " Tinmoth." 
 
 49. — Mack = make. 
 
 Prickt ^= spurred on. 
 
 51. — "To looke," L. " may look." 
 
 "All the earls," L. "all the earl's," W. "those earls his." 
 
 52. — " It's shame," W. " what shame." 
 
 53. — Abased = downcast, in dread. 
 
 54.— "Then Stanley," W. "the Stanley." 
 
 55. — Lat = lately, previously. 
 "Great," L. & W. "keen." 
 "Was now uprais'd," L. "did now upraise." 
 
 56. — Weild := command. 
 
 jy. — "Was deaf," W. " wext deaf" (wext = grew). 
 "Would," L. & W. "could." 
 " Then did appear," W. " he did uprear." 
 
 59.—" Shall make true," L. "truly shall." 
 
E\}e Ballalr of flotition Jteltr. 105 
 
 FIT V. 
 
 2.— "Breast," L. "blood." 
 
 4. — First line, W. — Whom doughty lords associated. 
 Last two fines, W. — 
 
 Lord Ogle, who, as then, did lead 
 A lordly band of warlike wights. 
 
 S- — Caul = hood, covering (L. "coat"). 
 Third line, W.— 
 
 Who had been shroud in shepherd's earn. 
 The emendation caul, for which the editor is responsible, 
 appears to him the only rational substitution which can be 
 made for the illegible ms. word which Weber has rendered 
 EARN, Lambe (after Gent) coat, Benson garb. The form 
 CALLE, from the Anglo-Norman cale, hood, occurs already 
 in Chaucer. Spenser has, " when they had despoil'd her 
 tire and caul," explained in the previous line as meaning 
 " stripped her naked all," so that "tire and caul" may not 
 unreasonably be rendered by "inner and outer garments." 
 The word earn, or yearn, bears no other meaning than 
 "coagulated milk," which is altogether inadmissible in 
 this passage. 
 
 6. — Third line, W. — By friends in this wise was concealed. 
 
 7. — DiGHT = doomed. 
 
 Uphand = upperhand. 
 
 9. — Coasts = territory. 
 
 10. — Worledale, (W, " Whorledale," B. Wharledale"). As 
 the whole of this stanza refers to Staincliff hundred in the 
 West Riding of Yorkshire, comprising the Archdeconery 
 of Craven, in which there is no dale of this name, we are 
 reduced to the assumption, that Wharfedale is meant ; 
 otherwise it would be difficult to account for the total 
 absence of the latter from the list of districts enumerated 
 in this part of the poem. 
 
 1 1 . — Fleshly = muscular. 
 
 "Well brawn'd their ;" W. "well bound with ;" B. "well 
 browned with." 
 
 Second line, L. — Were fit the strongest bows to bend. 
 
 Brawned =: strong, brawny. This very obvious emenda- 
 tion (by the editor) is justified by the ordinary use of this 
 form by our early writers. "Whose mighty brawned 
 
io6 !!L\)t Ballati of Jlotition Jteln. 
 
 bowrs were wont to rive Steele plates ; Spenser, Faerie 
 Queen, i. 8, 41. 
 The Horton alluded to in this stanza is Horton-in- 
 Ribblesdale. 
 12. — Stour = struggle. A.S. stykung ; Norse stura, sorrow, 
 disturbance. We iind dede stoure := death struggle, 
 in Hampole's Prickc of Conscience, line i8zi. Lambe's 
 gloss of " dust in motion, metaphorically, battle," is 
 throwing " dust " into the reader's eyes. 
 
 13. — Ryedale. This cannot refer to Ryedale in the Wolds, but 
 must be Raydale, south of Bainbridge. 
 
 Ma.ssamshire. The country about Masliam bears the 
 name of IMassamshire. 
 
 Noisterfield. The small district of Nosterfield, in the 
 township of West Stanfield, near Ripon, seems very in- 
 significant in juxtaposition to Netherdale, yet no other 
 identification seems possible. 
 
 14.— "Tough," W. "taught." 
 
 MiTTON FEILD. The extensive district of .Afitton on the 
 
 Ribble and Hodder near Clitheroe. 
 Weild = command. 
 17. — Lambe (after Gent) has here the following stanza: — 
 The third part it will more unfold 
 
 The glorious train of heroes bright, 
 Such as may please the sage and old, 
 And yield to children sweet delight. 
 This is an unwarranted interpolation, made by Gent in 
 order to make a break in this somewhat long fit. It is 
 the more uncalled for, as it is arbitrarily placed in the 
 midst of an enumeration of the leading men of the 
 English army. 
 17. — L. has the first line — Sir Christopher Ward the next ensued. 
 "Effingham," L. "Etchingham." 
 " ^letham," L. " Mettham." 
 " Everingham," W. " Averingham." 
 W. & L. place commas between the three names, Metham, 
 Sidney, and Everingham. We have followed the Frag- 
 ments in assigning all the three names to one person. 
 18. — Second line, L. — These knights who in the vanguard were. 
 
 19- — "Howard," B. " Haworth." The northern country-speech 
 still changes d to th ; ex. " Bradforth " for " Bradford ;" 
 " Huthersfield " for " Huddersfield ;" "Atherton" for 
 "Adwalton," &c. Thus Howard will rhyme with "forth." 
 
STfje iSallalr of jjlotition Jtelti. 107 
 
 Gan = began. L. " did." 
 " Forth," L. " forward." 
 
 20.—" Full," L. " now." 
 
 Fourth line, L. — And for his sake never think it pain. 
 
 Let, from the A.S. lettan, to hinder, to oppose, to for- 
 bear, must be distinguished from to let, to allow, which 
 is derived from A.S. laetan. The phrase " let for no 
 pain," means therefore, " do not forbear, however 
 painful." 
 
 21. — Wend (L. " go "), the obsolete infinitive form from which 
 we have the perfect went ; compare the German wenden, 
 to turn. 
 "Too," W. "thoug:h;" L. "to." 
 Fourth line, L. — His father dear did render free. 
 
 22. — " Swage," L. " sway.'' 
 
 23. — " Eke," L. " too." " Untainted," L. " unspotted." 
 
 28. — "Britain," L. " Bretagne." The latter is, of course, 
 meant. 
 
 29. — Kin := family, race. 
 
 Garland = crown of victory. It may not be superfluous 
 
 to note that the original signification of the word 
 
 "crown" (Latin "corona") is "wreath." 
 Third line, L. — When then the earl the crown had gained. 
 
 30. — " All," W. " to." " Pure blood unblamed," L. "valiant 
 blood unstained." " He eke did cause," L. " The king 
 he caused." 
 
 31. — Th'fallow feild. L. has "Thalian field," with the gloss, 
 " supposed to be used for Thessalian." W. dissents from 
 this, but gives no opinion of his own besides suggesting 
 that it is perhaps a local name now lost. The uninter- 
 rupted alliteration of this line demands an initial f, with 
 or without the article, in the word preceding " feild," and 
 as there is clearly 11 in the middle of the word, the word 
 " fallow " is perhaps the only one which fulfils every 
 requisite of form and of meaning in this place. Falaw 
 in Old English, fealwe in A. S., has the meaning 
 of "faded," "dreary," "pale." In line 445 of Cursor 
 Mundi, we find " the falau slogth sal be thi gate, o Para- 
 dise " (the pale path shall be thy road to heaven), where 
 pale path stands for death. 
 " When," W. " where." 
 
io8 Etje Ballati of Jloiion JteHi. 
 
 32.— PREST=ready, see gloss to St. 64 on page 96. 
 
 33. — "Barkeston, " W. •'Barkerton," L. "Bruerton," F."Burker- 
 ton." " Bygot," L. & W. " Bygod." 
 
 34. — " fresh," L. " freest.'' 
 
 35. — " Clartice," L. " Clarvis." 
 
 FARE, A.S. FARAX, German FAHREN,=to go, to advance. 
 " feats," F. " faites." 
 
 36. — KEEN=brave. 
 
 "his sire" is omitted in L., probably through a clerical error. 
 
 38.— STirF=proud. 
 
 Stoure, see gloss to st. 12, ante. 
 
 39. — " did," W. " can." 
 
 Seemly BENT=beautifuIly eager. 
 
 40. — Doubt = fear. This affirmative meaning of the verb " to 
 doubt" is still common in Craven. "I doubt it '11 not 
 hold " expressed the fear of a churchwarden assisting the 
 other day in putting up some decorations in a Littondale 
 church. 
 
 41. — ^^'END, see gloss to stanza 21, ante. 
 
 " Wensledale," ^^'. " Wensadale," evidently ^^'L■nsleydale. 
 
 Morton ^ Morton-upon-Swale. 
 
 MoiSDALE (L. " Morsdale") = iMossdale, near the source 
 
 of the river lire. 
 " Stour," L. "store," the latter form is a translation of the 
 
 former, and is not connected with the "stoure" of stanza 
 
 12, ante. 
 
 42. — Wensdale, (W. " Weresdale.") There is some difficulty 
 in ascertaining the locality referred to. Being mentioned 
 in immediate connection with Bishopdale, Coverdale, 
 Cotterdale and Kidstones, we are driven to the conclusion 
 that \\'iddale, near Hawes must be meant. 
 Cotter End = Cotterdale near Hawes. 
 KiDSON Causey = Kidstones, the upper part of Bishop- 
 dale. Causey, or Causeway, alludes to the formerly much 
 frequented pass from this dale over the Gavel into 
 Wharfedale, and over Stake Fell (or Kidstones Fell) into 
 Raydale. 
 
 43. — Mollerstang. Mallerstang Common is the higher part 
 of Edendale, south of Kirkby Stephen. 
 
 Marsk W. and L.— " Mask" = Marske in Swaledale. 
 
MiDDLETONBY, (W. — " Midleconb}',") = Middleton Tyas, 
 near Catterick. The Danish suffix by, correspondifig to 
 the Saxon thorpe, signifies village. 
 
 Cam really signifies the summit of any mountain, and occurs 
 in various places in the northern counties. Compare also 
 the suffix KAMU occurring in many Swiss mountain names, 
 ex. Leistkamm (St. Gallen), Weisskamm (Glarus), &c. 
 The mountain alluded to in this stanza is Cam Fell, where 
 the rivers Wharfe and Ribble take their rise, near the 
 Ribblehead Station on the Settle and Carlisle Railway. 
 
 44. — Seimer Water, the lake which fills the central portion 
 of Raydale, south of Bainbridge. For the legend and 
 popular tradition referring to Seimer Water, see Barker's 
 Three Days of Wensleydale. 
 
 45.—" Barkley," L. " Barclay." 
 
 " and eke," W. and L. " with." 
 
 47. — Yede (L. "came") is the old preterite of to go, now 
 superseded by " went." 
 Last two lines, L. — Sir Lionel Piercy, knight of fame. 
 
 Did lead some hundred men well told. 
 48.—" Ninian," W. " Mimham," F. " Minham." 
 
 "Markenfil," W. "Markinfil," F. "Markinfell," L. " Mark- 
 
 anville." 
 " Maundevill," L. " Normanville." 
 49 — " Chestane." L. " Clapham," F. " Chostance." 
 
 SO.— " Dawbie," L. " Dalby." 
 
 "Th' array," L. "array," W. "their 'ray," F. " their way." 
 
 52. — " From Copeland's," L. " the Capeland." " Weighty," 
 
 F. " massy." 
 54.— " Stanemore," W. & L. "Stainmoor." "Even," F. "kene." 
 
 AusTON = Alston. 
 
 Grave = hollow. Compare German graben, 
 
 " Hexham," W. " Hesham," L. " Keshan," F. " Kesham." 
 56. — " Houses," L. " Horses" ! surely a misprint. 
 
 Last two lines, L. — A baron fair by his birthright. 
 
 And heritage which to him fell. 
 57. — HiNGS = hangs. See gloss to stanza 1 1, page loz. 
 
 Fourth line, L. — From whom true valour fairly springs. 
 
 58. — Blin = cease. 
 
 "Laud," L. "praise," W. "land." 
 
 79. — Stiff in stour = proud in battle. See gloss to stanza 
 12, ante. 
 
no E\}c JSallali of Jlotifian JftBln. 
 
 60. — Liver = nimble. (W. & F. "lively".) 
 
 Fells := mountains, from the Norse fjeld, used in all the 
 northern counties. 
 
 61. — BouN = going. " Is te bounoo'r t' fells t' neat.?" (Craven) 
 = are you going over the hills to-night ? 
 
 62. — Conneyside has become modernised recently into Conis- 
 head Priory. 
 " Furness," \V. & L. " Furneys,'' F. " Furnace." 
 
 64. — Ratchdale = Rochdale, locally pronounced " Ratchdill." 
 
 66. — " Turned out in scores,'' L. " did turn in furs." 
 
 67. — Prest, see gloss to stanza 64, page 96. 
 " Children," L. " youth." 
 
 69.— " Strait with," L. " with strict." 
 
 Last line, L. — To know for why these wars did spring. 
 
 FIT VI. 
 
 2. " The king," W. " his Grace." " Then," L. " there." 
 
 3. — "Whereto if," L. "if thus." "Straitway to," L. "immediate." 
 " His countrymen," " Scotchmen taken." 
 
 4. — Third line, \V. — And where the king did sore presume. 
 
 5. — CoMiioNS ^ the common people. 
 
 " Pills," W. & L. " piles." For the word pills see gloss to 
 stanza 75, page 97. 
 
 " Draw," W. " throw." 
 
 7. — "Rouge-Croix," W. " Rougecross." 
 
 8. — Fourth line, L. — He would prepare himself to fight. 
 
 9- — Bless. Lambe's gloss "wound, from the French blesser," 
 though endorsed by Weber, is inadmissible. I believe 
 that no good instance can be adduced of the use in 
 English of " to bless" in the sense of "to wound." Nor 
 is such a meaning required in this stanza : the ironical 
 force of " gave him a blessing with his blade" explains 
 itself. In stanza 21 of the 9th fit we have again: — 
 With an English blade he had been blest. 
 10. — Prest = ready. 
 
 Vouch = to avouch., to answer for. 
 
Ete Uallati of Jlotitian JieHi. i i i 
 
 13. — Field = camp. 
 
 " Rouge-Croix was yet," W. " Wherefore Rougecross." 
 
 14. — Brave = beautiful. 
 
 16. — " On knees," L. " on the ground." 
 
 17. — First line, L. — With salutations did greet. 
 
 ig. — " Eke had viewed," L. "also read." 
 Far'd = went on. 
 
 19. — Breast = Courage. 
 
 20. — Second Line, L. — I swear by sceptre and by crown. 
 
 Third line, W. — In faith he shall have fighting enough. 
 
 2i._" Part," W. " pass." " This hill," L. " this same hill." 
 
 22. — Pates (L. "heads") = brain-pan, head. 
 
 Polled = lopped off. 
 23. — "Earl his," L. "earl's whole." "And audience," L. 
 
 " audience being." 
 24.—" So simple, " L. "such a simple." " Spite," W. " spight." 
 
 Schedule = document. 
 
 Did spare = refrained. 
 
 25._"To use all," W. "with all possible," L. "That they with." 
 Last line, L — A Scottish herald should address. 
 
 26. — To MAKE sure = to detain. 
 
 2y. — Second line, L. — That Rouge-Croix should with them 
 remain. 
 Fourth line, L. — Their Herald, Hay called by name. 
 Clept (W. "yclept") = called, from the obsolete infinitive 
 to CLEPE = to name, to call ; the y in yclept represents 
 the prefix of the past participle, corresponding to " ge " 
 in modern German. A. S. clypian. 
 
 29.— Certifye (L "terrify") = to apprize. 
 
 30.— " Eloquent," W. " loquintue ;" "went," W. "drew." 
 
 3 1 . — Last line, L. — Whilst clanging trumpets noise did make. 
 
 34. — Second line, W. — And lodged then in a little village. 
 
 Fourth line, W. — Which might turn to the Scots' advantage. 
 
 35. — Fourth line, W. — He strait did on his council call. 
 
 36. — Trumpet = trumpeter. 
 Mused = wondered. 
 
37- — CoNjECT = conjecture. 
 Defect ■=. wanting. 
 
 38.— Hal'd (W. " hail'd") = drew. 
 Chair =: chariot. 
 Amain = forcibly. A.S. on iiiEGXE, by force of hand. 
 
 39. — Second line, W. — Who soon on horseback did surround. 
 Hied ^ hastened. A.S. higan. 
 
 Stound = time, hour. A.S. stund, short space of time. 
 German stunde, hour. 
 
 40. — "Lords,"' L. "earl." 
 
 Cabbage (B. "capage"). In dealing with this word, 
 which neither Lambe nor Weber have attempted to ex- 
 plain, we gather from the whole drift of the stanza that 
 some kind of bedding or covering must be meant. In 
 the Whi/l/v Glossary we find Cabajeen with the gloss, "a 
 cloak of eighty years ago," a time which we may define 
 as "in our forefathers' days." In Morris' Specimens 0/ 
 Early English we find Capados, a hood. We venture 
 then to surmise that the meaning of cabbage in this 
 stanza is simply " covering," or " nightcap," which will 
 be perfectly consonant with the meaning of the rest of 
 the stanza. 
 
 41. — Hastly (L. "quickly") = hastily. 
 
 43. — " Underlay'd," W. " understood." 
 
 Second line, L. — They cannot well be understood. 
 , Leasing — lies. A.S. leasung, falsehood ; leas, false. 
 
 44.— Quo' = QUOTH, said. This preterite is the only tense re- 
 maining in use of the A.S. cwethan, to say. The verb 
 to " bequeath " is a compound form of it. 
 Last two lines, L. — 
 
 He did not forge the same nor feign, 
 Nor do we any favour need. 
 45. — Second line, L. — Who truly did the same reveal. 
 46. — Muse = wonder. 
 47- — "To the earl," W. " again to him." 
 
 48. — "You do make," W. "ye did make ;" L. "you make such." 
 Biddeth mute = declines to answer. 
 
 52. — Until — to, towards. In this signification the preposition 
 until, now obsolete, generally followed its case, as in this 
 stanza. 
 
E\sz BallaD of fflolilion Jteltr. 113 
 
 53. — Thorough =through, always followed its case ; see preced- 
 ing gloss. 
 Sent = sent to him. 
 " He being," L. "to him." 
 
 54. — No FAR = nothing further. 
 
 55.— "Earl Surrey," W. "the Earl." 
 
 S6.— " To fight," L. ■' would fight." 
 Plight = plighted. 
 
 57. — " Clept," L. "kept, " evidently a misprint. 
 
 58. — "When as," L. " when this." 
 
 62.—" Inclose," L. " did not lose." 
 
 " With fenny mire," L. " about with mire." 
 Grizzly = dreadful. 
 
 Gills = ravines. An Icelandic word, current in all the 
 northern counties, though the manner or period of its 
 introduction is uncertain. Though absent from the 
 modern Danish and Norse, it must have existed in the 
 early Scandinavian of which Icelandic is a remnant. 
 Moss = bog. 
 63. — Bad = bade, bid. 
 64.— Hent = to catch, to seize A. S. hentan. 
 
 W. makes this stanza the first of the seventh fit, and Lambe 
 includes the whole of Heron's episode in the sixth fit. 
 
 FIT VII. 
 
 I. — Prest (W. & L. "press'd") = ready. 
 ScowRiNG = galloping. 
 Lusty ^ strong. 
 
 2. — Vailed := lowered. 
 
 Radly (L. "swiftly") = swiftly A.S. RAD and R^D, 
 active, thence the modern " ready." 
 3_" Knight," W. " wight," L. " none of them all." 
 4.— L.— From oif his steed he leaped there 
 And kneeling, gracefully did bow, 
 
 Holding his horse and quivering spear. 
 Lout = to bend, to stoop. A. S. lutian. Still heard 
 occasionally in northern dialects, in the signification 
 of " to greet humbly." 
 
114 2Df)f Ballati of jPloUtion Jtellr. 
 
 S. — L. — In little time he silence brake, 
 
 ]\Iy lord, quoth he, afford some grace, 
 Pardon my life for pity's sake, 
 
 For now you are in King Henry's place. 
 
 6. — First line, L. — Mercy, my lord, from you I crave. 
 " I may," L. " I shall." 
 
 7 — " Belike thou'st," L. " Perhaps you have." 
 Belike ^ probably. 
 Fact = deed. 
 
 g. — Second line, L. — My lord, my crime it is not such. 
 
 10. — Last line, L. — And to extreams I have been forced. 
 
 II. — " Murth'ring," L. "hurting." 
 
 13. — Second line, L. — You seem to be a person brave. 
 
 Prave = bad, from the Latin pravus. 
 14. — Wight = active, brave. 
 16. — Sleight = trick. 
 
 1 7-— "Thereto," W. "therefore." "Heron," W. " Hearon." 
 Upbrought = brought up. See gloss to stanza 38, page 98. 
 
 19- — Deemed = doomed. A. S. dejian, to judge. The old 
 English word Dempster, judge, is still in active use in 
 the Isle of Man. 
 
 20. — To prove = by token. 
 
 " The king," W. & L. " King Henry." 
 21. — Gate, in all the northern dialects bears the signification 
 of " road," " street," not gateway. The " town gate" in 
 the Craven villages is the principal street. 
 Wot = know. A. S. witan, from which our substantive 
 " wit." The preterite form wot was generally used in a 
 present signification instead of I \yEET, much as the Latin 
 
 COGN'OVI. 
 
 22. — Unfold = uncover. 
 Opened = explained. 
 
 23. — Wist (L. "knew"), a second preterite of the verb to weet, 
 see gloss to stanza 21, ante. 
 
 24. — " Wile " is omitted in L. 
 
 27.— Second line, L.— Who, 'fraid of townsmen, careful watched. 
 For = in the place of. 
 
 Stead = place. A. L. stede, German st.^tte. 
 Despatched = hastened. 
 
€\jt aSallati of Jloniron Jtelti. 115 
 
 28. — Frame = contrive. 
 
 " Soon 't was," W. " as it was," L. " soon as." 
 
 zg. — Made bown = prepared. L. " soon were bown." The 
 adjective bown or boun, is from the Icelandic participle 
 BUINN. The root is the same as in busk, for which see 
 gloss to stanza 56, page 96. 
 
 32. — Doom = sentence; see ante, gloss to stanza ;g. 
 33. — Mansion, in its original meaning of dwelling-place. 
 
 " Open I appeared," W. "I aptly appeared," L. " openly I 
 came." 
 34. — Weet, see glosses to stanzas 21 & 23, ante. 
 
 Stead = place. 
 35. — Sam = together. Old English alle-samen, all together: 
 Swiss AUemanic, alli-zamme. 
 Gand, which Lambe actually refers to a Spanish card game, 
 or to a ball with which the Lapland wizards divert them- 
 selves 1, is from the Danish verb gante, to make a fool 
 of, to banter, and therefore means " trick." 
 
 Gam = game, fun. It is still used in the north in the 
 
 same form. 
 Fain = glad, a northern dialect word. 
 " Refrain," W. " abstain." 
 
 First line, L. — So said, the lords and knights of fame. 
 36. — Policy ^ national sentiments. 
 
 Lambe inserts here the following stanza, in order to 
 terminate the fit : — 
 
 Read the fourth part, it makes an end 
 
 Of Heron's story, and the fight. 
 Let young and old to this attend. 
 It will give instruction with delight. 
 37. — This being the first stanza of the fourth part and seventh 
 fit in L.'s edition, " he fiercely flew " is altered to " brave 
 Heron flew." 
 39.— "They all," L. " they were." 
 40. — Bode (L. " stood ") = abode, awaited. 
 43. — Wast = waste. 
 
 44. — Black = dismal. Compare Shakespeare, Richard III, iv. 4. 
 Wan (L. "won") = insipid ; pale. A. S. wana, wanting. 
 
 45. — Steadfdl = steadfast. 
 
 47. — Yerd := yard measure. A. S. gyrd, wand, German gerte. 
 "Fear'd," L. "afraid." 
 
ii6 
 
 E\}t Ballati of Jlotrtion Jtelli. 
 
 49 
 
 50 
 51 
 
 53 
 S4 
 
 55 
 
 " Scoulding Scots," F. " beaten Scots." 
 
 •Health = safety. 
 " Scots do get," L. " Scotsmen gain." 
 
 — Second line L. — But, cowards-like, from them should turn. 
 Harry = to plunder. A. S. Hergian. 
 
 — Stick = Scruple. 
 
 -" Spoil," W. & L. " soil." 
 Weild ^= have at command. 
 
 , — Drive forth (L. " pass out") = live, pass. 
 " perduring," L. " a lasting." 
 
 — All SAM (L. "agreed") = all together; see gloss to stanza 
 35, ante. 
 Bent = fixed purpose, determination. Lambe's gloss is 
 " bent, a field," which Weber adopts. Although bent is 
 met with in Old English in the meaning of " slope of a 
 hill " (see i\Iorris' Specimens), yet I think the meaning 
 of " determination," for which see Latham, s. v., suits 
 the general drift of the stanza better ; for evidently the 
 soldiers, who were still at Sandiford, were not to abide 
 there " on that field." Lambe's derivation from bent- 
 grass is not worthy of refutation. 
 
 FIT VIII. 
 
 — " In sight they saw," L. " clearly they saw." 
 
 — " Sunny side," L. " Surrey-side " ! 
 
 — "\A'as a guileful," L. "then, a gainful." 
 Greek = fellow. 
 
 6. — Passing = exceedingly. 
 
 7.— Marches (W. " marshes ") = borderlands. A. S. mearc, 
 
 boundary. Compare also the German Mark, ex. Steier- 
 
 mark, Markgraf. 
 
 9- — Traine = artifice, from the Anglo-Norman traye, to 
 deceive. 
 
 10. — Third line, L. — The Scots there scoured with right good 
 will. 
 ScouRE = run. 
 There till = thither ; see gloss to stanza 52, page 112. 
 
Ei)C BallaU of Jlotition JielB. 1 1 7 
 
 1 1. — Last two lines, L. — Whose dusty smoak the light did blind, 
 
 That both the armies soon they met. 
 Wrastling = whirling, from the A. S. "WRiESTiAN, to 
 
 writhe, to twist. 
 Bet = beat. 
 
 12. — This stanza is omitted by Lambe, probably through 
 inadvertence. 
 Feal'd, incorrectly translated by Weber as " defiled," 
 means " obscured, hid." See Carr's Craven Dialect, 
 where the derivation is stated to be from the Icelandic 
 FEL, dark. The derivation from the A. S. fel, covering, 
 is quite as probable. 
 
 13.—" At length," L. " For when the." " Now both the hosts," 
 L. " The armies both." 
 
 14. — Battles = lines. 
 
 15. — Gainstand =z withstand. 
 Bent = prepared. 
 
 17. — Hent = seize. 
 
 Ruffling = violently. 
 
 18. — OuTBRAST = burst out. 
 Levelled = cast. 
 
 19. — Arch = chief. 
 
 20. — Brast = burst. 
 
 Piped a peal = played a tune. 
 
 21. — Hent = got. 
 
 Souse ^ to hurl. 
 22. — " In ragious claps," L. " in furious rage." 
 
 Ragious = roaring. 
 24. — Prease (L. "press") — to press forward. "Of his 
 beauteous son I prease to sing," Peele's David and 
 Bethsade (Old MS.). 
 25. — Groom = young man. 
 
 26. — Grey goose wing. This is a favourite expression, used by' 
 our older popular writers to denote the flight of the arrow. 
 We meet with it again in stanza 14 of the ninth fit. 
 Scour := clear away. 
 
 Skail = disperse, a northern dialect word. See skale in 
 Carr's Craven Dialect. 
 
 27. — "A wight his," W. " wight men's," L. "to the." 
 Coil = stir ; see Latham, s. v. 
 
ii8 EijE Ballatr of JloDtion JtEla. 
 
 2g. — Second line, L. — Another through his stomach stricked. 
 Stickt = pierced. 
 
 30 — " Plied apace," L. " then they went." 
 
 Plied = turned, hastened. I suspect that this signification 
 of the verb to ply must be referred for its origin to the 
 French plier, to fold, to bend. 
 Apace ^ quickly. 
 31. — Bills, bows = billmen, bowmen. 
 
 Mell ^ mace. 
 32.— "Stretcht," W. " straight. 
 Prest = pressed. 
 
 33. — Mace. This expression is obscure; it can scarcely be a 
 clerical error for "pace." An ordinary rhyme to "was" 
 and an alliteration to " pass " is required ; the word 
 "mass," standing for a body of troops, will fulfil these 
 conditions and supply a proper meaning. 
 
 34. — Again = against, a common dialect word. 
 35. — Told ^ numbered. 
 
 37. — Shock (W. & L. "shake") should be shack = shake. 
 
 " O barn, thoo shacks ma," = oh child, you upset me. 
 
 (Cumbrian jocular expression.) 
 IMlNlSH = depress. 
 Third line, L. — Nor ever let the world suppose. 
 
 38. — Mould = earth. 
 39. — Chear = courage. 
 
 41. — The rendering of the second line is : — Who were present 
 
 and eye witnesses. 
 
 42. — "Caught," L. " wrought." "Stagger," W. " stacker," the 
 latter being the older form, from the A. S. stakere, to 
 stagger. "Groom," L. "man." 
 Stound = moment. 
 43. — Thrashing (L. & W. "threshing") = striking. 
 
 Turned to teene ^ brought to grief. 
 44. — " Slaughtering," L. " slaughter." 
 45. — " Sever'd," L. "covered." 
 
 Skailed = dispersed, see gloss to stanza 26, ante. 
 All SAM, see gloss to stanza 35, page 115. 
 "Hash," W. "dash," L. "clash." Alliteration to "his 
 helmet high," as well as the sense of the phrase, requires 
 hash ^ hack, from the French hacher. 
 
 47. — " Fierce in," L. "in the." 
 
Efje Ballati of Jlotmoit Jtdti. 119 
 
 48.—" Flick'ring," L. " fluttering." 
 
 L. inserts here the following stanza : — 
 
 Who now, entombed, lies at a church 
 
 Carved out in stone to shew his fate, 
 That though, by fate, left in the lurch, 
 He died a death renowned and great. 
 
 49. — Wrack = ruin. 
 
 50. — Hyed ^ hastened. 
 
 51. ^Scot-free. A capital pun, legitimately used. The ordinary 
 "scot-free" is by Latham derived from the A. S. sceat, 
 payment, though it is questionable whether the derivation 
 from the Celtic scot, contribution, share, is not the more 
 natural, and more in consonance with its specific meaning. 
 Compare the French ecot, derived by French lexico- 
 graphers from SCOT. 
 
 52. — DiGHT = doomed ; see gloss to stanza 33, page 103. 
 
 S3.— "They flung," W. "lay flung." 
 Updrew = rose. 
 
 55. — Fourth line, L. — Two Scotch earls of an ancient race. 
 
 Sy. — Sallets (L. "solid") = headpiece, helmet, from the 
 French salade. 
 Riven = torn. 
 
 59. — " Foes," W. " enemies " ; alliteration demands " foes." 
 " Person," L. " battle" ; alliteration demands " person." 
 Prest = ready. 
 Blazed = waving. 
 
 60. — "Wherein," L. " under which." 
 
 63. — Sum := number. 
 
 64. — "Captains great and," W. " the captains of." 
 Addrest = directed. 
 
 65. — Keen = brave. 
 
 66. — Last three lines L. — 
 
 And blows with cutting axes dealt. 
 Then towering helmets through were cut. 
 That some their wounds scarce ever felt. 
 Swap = blow. A. S. swapan, to strike. 
 Swelt = faint. A. S. sweltan, to die. 
 
I20 K\iz Ballafl of Jlotftion Jtelti. 
 
 67. — This stanza is not given by Lambe. 
 
 SouN = swoon, northern dialect word. 
 Rageously = violently. 
 
 68. — This stanza is not given by W. 
 
 FIT IX. 
 
 I. — Fourth line, L. — Unto the English fierce did thrust. 
 Thrast := push, penetrate. 
 
 2. — Last line, L. — A valiant Englishman him slew. 
 
 3.—" Hardy," S. " haughty." " Fine," L. " end." 
 Fine =: end. 
 
 4. — " Weet might," L. " could say." 
 Weet = know. 
 
 W. & L. terminate the eighth fit here, although in the 
 midst of a sentence. 
 
 5. — Fast ^ fasten, cause to adhere. 
 "Foot," W., L. & F. "feet," 
 
 6. — First line, W.^-And some their boots left down below. 
 
 Third line, W. — Some from their feet the shoes did throw. 
 "Toes," L." loose it." "Throw," L. " thraw," the latter 
 being the true northern form. 
 
 7. — Wan = gained. 
 
 Wist = knew, preterite of to weet. 
 8.— "All sam," L. "at last." 
 
 Hardy = bold, in the signification of the French hardi. 
 g — Last two lines, L. — With fighting fierce, much fear have I, 
 Lest that they should be overlaid. 
 " They be," W " may be." 
 
 Feae me. This verb is not unfrequently used as a pro- 
 nominal verb by our older writers, a usage productive 
 of great force and elegance. 
 Overlaid = overborne. 
 
 1 1. — Last line, L. — Stanley will be to you a guide. 
 12. — Barwick = Berwick. 
 13. — Besets = presses. 
 
€\}t BallaH of fflolition Jtelli. 121 
 
 14- — "Anon," F. "arrows." "Amongst," W. "against." 
 " flickering," L. " fluttering.', 
 Grey goose wing = arrow's fligiit. 
 
 16. — This stanza is not given by Lambe. 
 
 Pavish = buckler, from the French pavois which is itself 
 derived from the Italian pavese, small square shield of 
 wood, covered over with strips of leather, and worn on 
 the left arm. 
 
 16. — Frame = set about; West Riding provincialism. 
 Last line, L. — A narrow dint of dangerous bode. 
 Weber inserts here the following stanza: — 
 
 And when the shower of arrows shot. 
 
 Did somewhat cease within awhile ; 
 
 The earl of Huntley haughty and hot, 
 
 With the earl of Lenox and Argile, 
 
 17. — Last two lines L. — 
 
 Endured death through danger's force, 
 Alas ! for them, they staid too long. 
 
 18. — Thrast (L, " thrust") =: thrust himself. 
 Last two lines, L. — 
 
 My Lancashire brave lads, quoth he, 
 Down with the Scots this day we must. 
 "This when the," L. "which when lord." 
 Wast := waste. 
 
 ig. — Earl, as explained in gloss to stanza 25, page 90, is a 
 dissyllable ; Lambe, unaware of it, altered the expression 
 to " the Scots earl." 
 
 20. — Lenox' luck was," L. " Lenox luck had." 
 
 Bent = field ; see gloss to stanza 55, page 1 16. 
 
 21. — Hap = luck. 
 
 24. — Scouring = galloping.' 
 ScAPT = escaped. 
 " But he by hap had," L. "for having near a." 
 
 25. — "Dead or," W. "fallen and." The former is a correct 
 rhyme, the latter a correct alliteration to " fled." 
 
 Last two lines, L — 
 
 Their soldiers then did fly with speed ; 
 With souls of horror and distress. 
 
122 E\}t BallaB of JloUUon jFtelli. 
 
 24. — Light = came upon. 
 
 Main = might. 
 
 Second Line, L. — Swiftly pursues unto the plain. 
 26. — First line, W. — But when the English arrows shot. 
 
 Outbroke (L. "were shot") = burst forth. 
 
 27. — " Hardly he could," L. " he could scarce." "Fight any 
 more," F. " see his foes." 
 Light = struck him (alighted on). 
 Blemished = obscured. 
 
 28. — This stanza is not given by Lambe. 
 " Stay'd," F. " said" 
 
 31. — This stanza appears in the Fragments in the midst between 
 
 the two preceding stanzas. 
 Device = intelligence, mind. 
 Failed = sunk, fainted. Had not all the mss. and editions 
 
 concurred in giving " fail'd," I should have suspected 
 
 that "fell" was intended. 
 
 32. — In base begot = bastard. 
 
 33. — First line, W. — As the earl of Catness and Castel. 
 "Athell," L. "Atholl." 
 
 34. — " Hands none," W. " fact few," " Was brought," L. & F. 
 " gave way." " Was thought," L. & F. " was he." 
 
 35.—" To ground," W. " to flight." " Till sun went down," W. 
 " while sun gave light." 
 Co-MiiONS = rank and file. 
 
 37. — Costly = opulent. 
 
 38. — This stanza appears neither in L. nor F. 
 Uncased = stripped. 
 'Ray =: outfit, array. 
 
 39.— "Born," L. & F. "found." " So well," L. "right," F. 
 
 " aright." " Morn," L. & F. " ground." 
 40. — Last three lines, L. & F., — 
 
 B}' certain signs did know the king ; 
 His corps into a cart being placed 
 They to Newcastle did it bring. 
 Bewray = identify. This verb is essentially diflferent from 
 betray, being derived from the A.S. bewregan, to show 
 truly, allied to the German wahr and the Latin verus, 
 whereas the root of " betray," must be sought in the 
 French trahir, from the Latin tradere. 
 
STfje Ballali of JlotiKon JteltJ. 123 
 
 41. — Instead of this and the following three stanzas (the last in 
 this and W's. edition) Gent, Lambe, and the Fragments 
 have these five : — 
 
 Twelve thousand Scots it seems were slain, 
 
 Of English but five thousand fell ; 
 But fifteen hundred, others plain 
 
 As words can make it to us tell. 
 Great store of guns were likewise taken, 
 
 Amongst the rest seven culverines ; 
 Seven sisters called, which do remain. 
 
 To be talked of to latest times. 
 King James's body was embalmed, 
 
 Sweet, like a king, and then was sent 
 To Shene in Surrey, where entombed, 
 
 Some say there is now a monument. 
 But Bryan Tunstall, that brave knight, 
 
 A never dying honour gains, 
 And will as long as day or night, 
 
 Or as this little book remains. 
 Thus have you heard of Flodden fight. 
 
 Worthy of each to be commended : 
 Because that then Old England's right 
 
 Was bravely by her sons defended. 
 
 44-. — "Three hundred" should evidently be " five hundred." 
 
HISTOEIO AL 
 
 gwgrapljtjcal |lote^. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF FLODDON FIELD, 
 OR BRANXTON MOOR. 
 
 The battle of Floddon was fought on the gth September, 15 13, 
 in the fifth year of the reign of Henry VIII. The events which 
 led up to it are briefly the following. : — On the 24th January, 
 1502, a perpetual peace had been concluded between James IV. 
 of Scotland and Henry VH. of England, which was further 
 cemented in 1503 bythe Scots King marrying ?ilargarct, daughter 
 of Henry VH. This peace did not succeed, howe\ er, in putting 
 an end to border raids and mutual bickerings ami jealousies, 
 especially when the prudent and pacific Henry VII. was succeeded 
 on the throne of England, in 1509, by his lir.tlieaded and self- 
 willed son Henry VHI., so that it only required a favourable oppor- 
 tunity to fan the glowing embers of national antipathy again into 
 the blaze of overt war. This opportunity was afforded in 15 13, by 
 the absence in France of Henr\- VHI. during his war against 
 Louis XII. Whilst Henry was personal!) superintending the 
 siege of Therouanne, near St. Omer in Artois, llie Scots king 
 summoned the whole array of his kingdom to assemble on the 
 borough moor of Edinburgh, alleging the ancient alliance 
 between Scotland and France and various grievances relating to 
 the dowry of Margaret, as pretexts for invading England. It is 
 stated that nearly 100,000 men answered the summons of their 
 sovereign, and with this formidable array James IV. crossed the 
 border, west of Berwick which was at that time strongly held 
 by the English, on the 22nd August, 1513, taking after a 
 short resistance the castles of Norham and Ford. Instead, 
 however, of pushing through the almost defenceless northern 
 marches into the heart of the kingdom, James tarried in the 
 neighbourhood of the Tweed, irresolute what course to take. 
 
E\)z BallaU of Jlotilion Jtelti. 125 
 
 The result of this indecision might have been foreseen: great 
 numbers of the fickle highlanders, always disinclined to fight in 
 distant expeditions, returned to their homes, and the Scottish 
 army in less than a fortnight, dwindled down to little more than 
 half its original number of men. This delay, on the other hand, 
 enabled the earl of Surrey, lieutenant-general of the northern 
 marches, to collect his forces near Alnwick and oppose the 
 invader with an army of about 30,000 men. 
 
 On the 6th September, 1513, the Scots fixed their headquarters 
 on Floddon hill, the extreme north-eastern spur of the Cheviot 
 range. On that day James IV. received and accepted a formal 
 challenge from the earl of Surrey, for the two armies to engage 
 in pitched battle on Friday, the gth September. During the 
 intermediate time, the earl of Surrey, advancing from Bolton- 
 in-Glendale in a north-easterly direction, crossed the river 
 Till, the southern affluent of the Tweed, and by this bold 
 and skilful flank march cut the Scots off" from their base. It is 
 difficult to understand why the Scots made no attempt to impede 
 this turning movement : some writers, chiefly Scottish, attribute 
 it to the exaggerated notions of chivalry entertained by James 
 IV.; others, with more probability, to the divided counsels of the 
 Scottish leaders and to the utter absence of efficient organization 
 in the host under their command. 
 
 On Thursday evening, 8th September, the two armies faced each 
 other, ranged in line of battle, and at dawn on Friday the fight 
 commenced with an intermittent artillery fire, which was kept up 
 on both sides, without much effect, till after noon. The first 
 actual onslaught was made by the Scottish left, led by the earls 
 of Huntley and Home, upon the right wing of the English army, 
 commanded by lord Edmond Howard, youngest son of the 
 commander-in-chief. This attack was pushed home so vigour- 
 ously, that the English ranks became broken and the safety 
 of the whole army would have been seriously compromised, if the 
 highlanders had pursued their advantage instead of giving way to 
 their inveterate habit of pillaging. This fatal mistake, however, 
 enabled lord Dacres to hasten to the assistance of lord Howard, 
 rally the broken English ranks, and overwhelm the disordered 
 host of Scottish plunderers. 
 
 The extreme English left, commanded by Sir Edward Stanley, 
 was faced by the Scottish right wing which consisted of clans- 
 men of Lennox and Argyle under their hereditary chiefs. These 
 highlanders, galled by the accurate practice of the English 
 bowmen, prematurely made a furious but ill-regulated attack, 
 
126 f;f)e aBallaK of Jlotitron JielU. 
 
 which was firmly withstood by the close English ranks and con- 
 verted into a disorder!}- flight. 
 
 Meanwhile the fight raged with the greatest fury between the 
 two centres, James having left his safe position on the hill in 
 order to relieve the two wings by a central attack on which he 
 staked the fate of his army. But practised discipline prevailed 
 over impulsive valour, and the battle which lasted till after 
 sundown, resulted in the death of the Scottisn King and nearly 
 10,000 of his subjects, — the most terrible defeat ever inflicted 
 upon Scotland and one which crippled its resources for genera- 
 tions' afterwards. 
 
 The day after the battle, the body of king James was found 
 among the slain, covered with wounds inflicted by sword and by 
 arrows : the neck was opened to the middle, and the left hand 
 almost cut off, so that it scarcely clung to the arm. A great 
 number of noblemen lay dead round the king, for at a critical 
 moment of the battle they had clustered round their sovereign, 
 so that all the leading men shared his tragic fate, including 
 t\\elve earls and the archbishop of St. Andrews ; Sir William 
 Scott and Sir John Foreman were the only ones of his personal^ 
 attendants who escaped with their lives. The royal corpse was 
 carried to York and kept there until king Henry's return from 
 France, when it was taken to Richmond to be gazed at by that 
 monarch. 
 
 CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF 
 THE BATTLE. 
 
 The earliest authentic account we have of the battle of Floddon 
 and the transactions in immediate connection with it, is a black 
 letter tract printed by Richard Fawkcs of St. Paul's Church Yard, 
 London. This printer, who flourished from 1509 to 1530, is 
 stated by Dibdin, on the authority of Ames, to have been the 
 second son of John Fawkes, of Farnley Hall, in Yorkshire. The 
 tract in question was reprinted in facsimile in 1822, at Newcastle, 
 by William Garret, and we proceedto give it in extenso: — 
 
 *i Hereafter ensue the trewc encountre or Batayle lately don 
 betwene Englande and Scotlande. In whiche batayle the 
 Scottsshe Kynge was slayne. 
 
 If The maner of th' auduaucesynge of my lord of Surrey 
 tresourier and Marshall of Englande and leuetennte generall 
 
of the north pties of the same with xxvi. M. men to wardes the 
 kynge of Scott, and his Armye vewed and nombred to an hundred 
 thousande men at the leest. 
 
 Firste my sayd Lorde at his beynge at Awnewick in North- 
 iimbrelande the iiij. daye of Septembre the v. yere of ye Reygne 
 of liynge Henry the viij. herynge that ye kynge of Scottesthenne 
 was remoued from Norhme And dyd lye at forde Castel & in those 
 ptyes dyd moche hurte in spoylyng robynge and brennynge sent 
 to the sayde kynge of Scottes Ruge Cros purseuaunte at Armes 
 to shewe unto hym that for so moche as he the sayd kynge con- 
 trary to his honour all good reason & conscyence And his oothe 
 of Fidelite for ye ferme entartnynge of perpetuall peas betwene 
 the kyng hygnes our Souerayne lorde and hym had inuaded this 
 Raalme spoylad brente and robbyd dyuers and sondery townes 
 and places in the same. Also had caste and betten downe the 
 Castel of Norhme And crewella had murdered & sla3'ne many 
 of the kynges liege people he was comen to g}Tie hym bayta. 
 And desyred hym yt for so moche as he was a kynge and a great 
 Prynce he wolde of his lusty & noble courage cosent therunto 
 and tarrye ye same. And for my sayde Lordes partie his lordeshyp 
 promysed ye assured Accomplysshement and perfourmaunce 
 thereof as he was true knyght to god and the kynge his mayster. 
 The kynge of Scottes herynge this message reynued & kep to wt~ 
 hym ye sayd Ruge Cros purseuante & wolde nat suffre hym at 
 ye tyme to retourne agayne to my sayd lorde. The v. daye of 
 of Septembre his lordshyp in hys approchynge nyghe' to the 
 borders of Scotlande mustred at Bolton in glendayll & lodged 
 that nyght therein yt felde with all his Armye. 
 
 ^ The nexte daye beynge the vi daye of Septembre the kynge 
 of scottes sent to my sayd lorde of Surrey a harolde of his called 
 Ilaye and demaunded if that my sayde Lorde wolde iustefye the 
 message sent by the sayd purseuaunte ruge cros as is aforesayd 
 sygnefyinge that if my lorde wolde so doo it was the thynge that 
 moost was to his Joye and comforte. To this demaunde my 
 lord made answere afore dyuers lordes knyghtes and gentylme 
 nyghe iij myles from the felde where ys the sayde harolde was 
 apstoynted to tarye bycause he shulde nat vewe the Armye 
 that hecommaunded nat oonlythe sayde Ruge-cros to speke and 
 shewe the seyde werdes of his message But also gaue and com- 
 ytted unto hym the same by Instruccyon sygned and subscrybed 
 with his owne hande whiche my sayde lorde sayd he wolde 
 Justefye and for so moche as his lordshyp conceyued by the 
 sayde Harolde how Joyous and comfortable his message was to 
 
128 K\)t IBallati of Jlolition JWtt. 
 
 ye savcU- kyna;e of scottes he therefore for the more assuraunce 
 of his message shewed that he wolde be bounden in x Mli & 
 good suertesVilh his Lordshyp to gyve the sayde kynge batayle 
 by Frv(la\e next after at the furthest If that the sayde kynge 
 of scottes wolde assyne and appoynte any other Erie or Erles 
 of his Realme to be bomiden in lyke maner that he wolde abyde 
 my sayde lordes commynge And for so moche as the sayd kynge 
 of Scottes reynued styll with him Ruge Cros purseuaunte and 
 wolde nat suffre hym to retourne to my lorde my sayde lorde in 
 l3'ke & semblable maner dyd kepe with hym the scottesshe 
 Haroide Hay and sant to the sayd kynge of scottes with his 
 answere and further offer as is afdre rehersed A gentylman 
 of scotlande that accompanyed and came to my sayde lorde with 
 sayd Haroide Hay And thus Hay contynved and was kepte close 
 tyll the commynge home of Ruge Cros whiche was the next da3-e 
 after And thenne Hay was put at large and lyberte to retourne 
 to the kynge of scottes his maystere to shewe my lordes answres 
 declaracyons and goodly offers as he had hade in euery be halue 
 of ni\- sayde lorde. 
 
 •j The same daye my Lorde deuyded his Arme in two betaylles 
 that is to wytte in a yaunwarde and a rerewarde and orde3'ned 
 my lord Hawarde Admorall his son to be Capitayne of the sayde 
 vaunwarde and hymselfe to be chefe Capitayne of the rerewarde. 
 
 *{■ In the breste of ye sayde vaunwarde was wt the sayde Lorde 
 Admorall ix thousande men and vnder Capitavnes of the same 
 breste of the batayle was the lord Lumley =: syr \^'illm Bulmer 
 =; the baron of Hylton and dyverse other of the Bysshopryche 
 Duresme := vnder Seynt =^ Cuthberl banner the lorde Scrope 
 of vpsall the lorde Ogle syr w\ll\am Gascoygne ser Cristofer 
 warde syr John Eueringhm sir waiter Griffith syr John Go\ver 
 and dyvers other Esquyres and gentylmen of yorkeshyre and 
 Northumberland And in ayther wynge of the same batayle was 
 iij M. men. 
 
 ^ The Capitayne of the right wynge was mayster Edmonde 
 hawarde sone to my seyde lorde of Surrey And with hym was syr 
 Thomas Butler s) r John Boothe syr Richard Boolde and dyuerse 
 other Esquyres & gentylmen of Lancasshyre and Chasshyre. 
 
 If The Capitayne of the last vrynge was olda syr Marmaduke 
 Constable & with hym was mayster wyllm Percy his sona Elawe 
 willm Constable his broder syr Robert Constable marmaduke 
 Constable willm Constable his sones And syr John Constable 
 of holdernes with dyuerse his kynesmen Allies and other 
 gentylmen of yorkeshyre and Northumberlande. 
 
 r 
 
Etc aSallati of flotition JtelH. 129 
 
 ^ In the breste of the batayle of the sayde rerewarde was v M. 
 men with my sayde lorde of Surrey and vnder Capitaynes of the 
 same was the lord Scrope of Bolton syr Philype Tyney broder 
 Elawe to my sayd lord of Surrey George darcy sone and heyre to 
 the lorde Darcy sayde beynge Capitayne of the firste batayle 
 of the Scottes fyersly dyd sette vpon maister Edmonde Hawarde 
 Capitayne of the vttermoste parte of the felde at the west syde 
 And betwene them was so cruell batayle that many of our partie 
 Chesshyremen and other dyd flee And the sayd mayster Edmonde 
 in maner lefte alone without socoure and his standerde and 
 berer of the same beten and hewed in peces and hymsel thryse 
 stryken downe to the ground Howbeit lyke a couragyous & an 
 hardy yonge lusty gentylman he recouered agayne and faught 
 hande to hande with one sir Dauy home &,slewe hym with his 
 owne handes. And thus the sayde mayster Edmonde was in 
 great perell and daunger tyll that the lorde Dacre lyke a good 
 and an hardy knyght releued and came vnto hym for his socoure. 
 
 ^ The seconde Batayle came vpon my lorde Hawarde The 
 thirde batayle wherin was the kynge of Scottes & moste parte 
 of the noble men of his Reame came fyersly vpon my sayd lord 
 of Surrey whiche two bataylles by the helpe of elmyghty god were 
 after a greht confydelycte venquysshed ouercomen betten downe 
 & put to flyght and fewe of them escaped with theyr lyves syr 
 Edwarde Stanley beynge at the vttermoste parte of the sayde 
 rerewarde one heste partie seynge the fourthe batayle redy to 
 releue the sayde kynge of scottes batayle couragyously and lyke a 
 lusty and an hardy knyght dyd sette vpon the same and ouercame 
 & put to flyght all the scottes in the sayd batayle. And thus by 
 the grace socour and helpe of almyghty god victory was gyven 
 to the Reame of England And all the scottyshe ordenance wonne 
 & brought to Ettell and Barwyke in Suretie. 
 
 % Hereafter ensueth the names of sondry noblemen of the 
 scottes slayne at the sayde batayle & felde called Brainston moore. 
 
 Firste ye kyng of scottes. 
 
 The Archebysshop of seynt Androwes. 
 
 The bysshop of Thyles. 
 
 The bysshop of Ketnes. 
 
 The abbot ynchaffrey. 
 
 The abbot of Rylwenny. 
 
 Therle of Mountroos. 
 
 Therle of Craforde. 
 
 Therle of Argyle. 
 
 Therle of lennox. 
 
Therle of Lencar 
 
 Thcrle of Castelles. 
 
 Therle of Boothwell. 
 
 Therle Arell. Constable 
 
 Lorde Lowett. 
 
 Lorde Forboos. 
 
 Lorde Elweston. 
 
 Lorde Inderby. 
 
 Lorde Maxwell. 
 
 Mac Keyn. 
 
 Mac Cleen. 
 
 John of graunte. 
 
 The maist. of Agwis. 
 
 Lorde Roos. 
 
 Lorde tempyll. 
 
 Lorde Borthyke. 
 
 Borde Askyll. 
 
 Lorde Dawisfye. 
 
 Sir Alexander Scotton. 
 
 Sir John home. 
 
 Lord Coluin. 
 
 Sir Dauy home. 
 
 Cuthbert home of Fascastell. 
 
 Over & above the seyd psones there at slayne of the Scottes 
 vewd by my lorde Dacre the noumbre of xi or xii thousande 
 mend And of Engl}sshnicn slayne & taken prysoners vpon xii C. 
 d}Tiers prysoners are taken of ye scottes But noo Notable person 
 saue oonly syr wyllm Scotte kn)'ght Comicellour of the sayde 
 kynge of scottes and as is sayd a L^entylman well lerned Also sr 
 John Forma kn\-ght broder to the Bysshop of Murrey which 
 bysshop as is reported was & is moost pryncypall procurour 
 of this warre And one other called sr John Colehome many 
 other scottysshe i)rysoner coude and m\'ght haue been taken but 
 they were soo ven.Ljeablc & crucll in their fyghtynge thatwhenne 
 Engly.sshmen had the better of them they wolde nat saue them 
 though it so were that d)uerse scottes offered great sumes 
 of money for the)T l}\'es. 
 
 ^ It is to be noted that the felde beganne between iiij and v 
 at after Noone and contynued within nyght if it had fortuned to 
 haue ben further afore nyght many mo scottes had ben slayne 
 and taken prysoners louvinge beto almyghty god all the noble 
 men of Englande tha were vpon the same felde bothe lordes and 
 knyghtes are safe from any hurte And none of theym awantynge 
 saue oonly maister Harrgy Gray syr Huinfeide lyle bothe pryson- 
 
Ete Ballatj of Jlontion Jfeto. 131 
 
 ers in Scotlade syr John Gower of Yorkesshyre and syr John 
 Boothe of Lancasshyre both wantynge and as yet not founden. 
 
 ^ In this batayle the scottes hade many great Auauntagies 
 that is to wytte the hyghe Hylles and mountaynes a great wynde 
 with them and sodayne rayne all contrary to our bowes and 
 Archers. 
 
 ^ It is nat to be doubted but the scottes fought manly and 
 were determyned outher to wynne ye Felde or to dye They 
 were also as well apoynted as was possyble at all poyntes with 
 Armoure & barneys so that fewe of them were slayne with 
 arrowes Howbeit the bylles did bete and hewe them downe woth 
 some payne and daunger to Englysshemen. 
 
 The sayd scottes were so playnely determyned to abyde batayle 
 and nat to flee that they put from them theyr horses and also 
 put of theyr botes and shoes and faught in the vampis of theyr 
 hooses every man for the moost ptie with a kene and a shape 
 spare of v yerdes longe and a target aforh hym And when theyr 
 speres fayled and wera spent then they faught with great end 
 sharpe swerdes makyng Ij'ttell or no noys vithoue that ; that for 
 the ptie many of them wolde desyre to be saued. 
 
 ^ The felde where ye scottes dyd lodge was nat to be reprouyd 
 but rather to be comended greatly for there many and great 
 nombre of goodiyl tenttes and moche good stuffe in the same 
 & in the sayd felde was plentie of wyne bere ale beif mutton 
 salfysshe chese and other vytalles necessary and conuenyent for 
 suche a great Army Albeit our Armye doutynge that the sayd 
 vyttalyes hadde ben poysoned for theyr distruccyon wolde nat 
 saue but vtterly distroyed theym. 
 
 ^ Hereafter ensueth the names of suche noble men as after 
 the Felde were made knyght for theyr valyauce Act in the same 
 by my sayd lorde therle of Surrey. 
 
 ^ Firste my lord Scrope of vpsall. 
 Sir willm Percy. 
 Sir Edmonde Hawarde. 
 Sir george Darcy. 
 Sir w. gascoygne ye yoger. 
 Sir willm. Medlton 
 Sir willm. Maleuerdy. 
 Sir Thomas Bartley. 
 Sir marmaduke Costable ye yoger. 
 Sir xpofer Dacre. 
 Sir John Hoothome. 
 
Sir Nicholas Appleyarde. 
 Sir Edwarde Goorge. 
 Sir Rauf Ellercar the yoger. 
 Sir John wyliyby. 
 Sir Edwarde Echinghme. 
 Sir Edwarde Musgraue. 
 Sir John Stanley. 
 Sir Walter stonner. 
 Sir Nyniane martynfelde. i 
 
 Sir Raffe Bowes. ' 
 
 Sir Briane stapleton of wyghall. 
 Sir Guy Dawny. 
 Sir Raffe sahvayne. 
 Sir Richarde Malleuerey. 
 Sir willm. Constable of Hatefelde. 
 Sir willm. Constable of Larethorpe. 
 Sir Xpofer Danby. 
 Sir Thomas Burght. 
 Sir willm. Rous. 
 Sir Thomas Newton. 
 Sir Roger of Fenwyke. 
 Sir Roger Gray. 
 Sir Thomas Connyers. 
 My lorde Ogle. 
 Sir Thomas strngewase. 
 Sir Henri Thiuaittes. 
 My lorde lumley. 
 Sir Xpofe Pekerynge. 
 Sir John Bulmer. 
 ^ Emprynted by me Richarde Faques dwllyng In poulys 
 churche yerde. 
 
 THE AUTHORSHIP AND VARIOUS 
 EDITIONS OF THE BALLAD. 
 
 The authorship of this historical ballad is involved in obscurity. 
 The supposition of Lambe, that it was written by -'a schoolmaster 
 of Yorkshire," has great probability in its favour, for the occur- 
 rence in the poem of a considerable number of dialect words 
 appertaining exclusively to the Craven district in the West 
 Riding of Yorkshire, and the absence of purely Northumbrian 
 
 1 
 
Eije ISallat) of Jlolition J^ielti. 133 
 
 words, tend to corroborate the tradition that the ballad was 
 originall)' written by one " Richard Jackson," a schoolmaster 
 of Ingleton (in the very centre of Craven), about fifty years after 
 the battle. This would fix the date of its composition approxi- 
 mately between the years 1560 and 1570. Weber, who does not 
 appear to have been aware of the supposed authorship of Richard 
 Jackson and the "fifty years after the battle" date given with it, 
 arrives curiously enough at the same result from internal evi- 
 dence. We quote his words : — 
 
 " We are entirely in the dark respecting the time in which our 
 Minstrel flourished. The date of the only ancient MS. which at 
 present is to be found, is about 1636, as will immediately be 
 shewn. There can, however, be little doubt, that it was pro- 
 duced during the preceding century. After the accession of James 
 to the throne of England, the battle would not have been the 
 subject of popular celebration. A remarkable instance of the 
 deference paid to this monarch on this score, occurs in the his- 
 tory of the Mirrour of Magistrates. Two poems on the subject 
 of Floddon Field and the death of James IV., which had been 
 introduced into the edition of 1587, and which, in point of merit, 
 are certainly not inferior to the generality of the legends in that 
 collection, were omitted in the edition of 1610. 
 
 "The deviations which occur in the poem, from those popular 
 historians. Hall and Holinshed, and which would probably not 
 have occurred, had the author been acquainted with their Chron- 
 icles, might lead us to assign a much earlier date to it. One of 
 the most interesting incidents is not at all noticed by either of 
 them ; nor have I been able to meet with it in any other chron- 
 icler of the time. The author must therefore have had some other 
 sources of information ; most probably traditions in the house 
 of Stanley, to which he seems to have been attached. The very 
 frequent and obvious alliteration, is another and a ver)' strong 
 proof of the antiquity of the work. From all these deductions, 
 the assertion that it was produced about the middle of the i6th 
 century will not be deemed rash." 
 
 " The great and strongly-marked partiality for the house of 
 Stanley, and the Lancastrian forces, and the more minute detail 
 of their operations, indicate a close connection of the maker^ith. 
 that family. That this was not his only production, is proved 
 by the first stanza of the poem, where he very evidently alludes 
 to another, in which he had celebrated King Henry VIII.'s feats 
 before Therouenne and Tournay. Ballad-inditing was probably 
 his principal, if not his sole occupation." 
 
134 2Df)0 Ballati of Jlolition JFteltr. 
 
 The earliest existing manuscript (i.e. transcript) of the Ballad 
 is in the British Museum (Harl. MSS. No. 3526), and has the 
 following title : — " Heare is the famous historic or songe, called 
 Floodan Field ; in it shalbe declare how, whyle Kinge Henrie the 
 Eight was in France, the King of Scoots, called James, the fowerth 
 of that name, invaded the realme of England ; and how he was 
 incountred with all at a place called Branton, on Floodan Hill, 
 by the Earl of Surry, liuetenant-generall for the kinge, with the 
 helpe of dyvers lords and knights in the North Countrie, as the 
 Lord Dakers of the North, the Lord Scrope of Bolton, with the 
 most coragious knight Sir Edward Standley, who for his prowls 
 and valliantnes, shewed att the said battell, was made Lord 
 Mount Eagle, as the sequel declareth." — The date of this MS. 
 is about A.D. 1636. 
 
 The first printed edition appeared in 1664, as a izmo volume, 
 under the following title: — " Floddan Field, in Nine Fits, being 
 an exact History of that famous memorable Battle, fought 
 between English and Scots on Floddan Hill, in the time of Henry 
 the Eighth, anno 1513: worthy the perusal of the English No- 
 bility. London, printed by P. L. for H. B., W. P. and S. H. and 
 are to be sold in Ivy-Lane and Gray's-inn-gate, 1664. Licensed 
 November nth, 1663. Roger L'Estrange." — Weber took this 
 copy, then in the possession of Sir Walter Scott, as the text 
 of his excellent edition. 
 
 Another printed edition, taken, however, from a different 
 source, viz., the manuscript in the possession of John Askew, 
 Esq., of Palinsburn, in the county of Northumberland, was issued 
 by the celebrated printer Thomas Gent, of York, and furnishes 
 the text to the present edition. It is undated, but from internal 
 evidence must be placed between the vears 1755 and 1762. We 
 learn from Davis' exhaustive " Memoirs of the York Press," that 
 Gent no longer possessed a printing press in 1772, and that the 
 last productions of his press, subsequent to 1762, were wretch- 
 edly printed on vile paper,' the failing strength and absolute 
 poverty of the broken down old man disabling him from turning 
 out any creditable work. The last work of any pretension pub- 
 lished by Gent, was the second edition of his History of the 
 East Window in York Cathedral, which appeared in 1762 and 
 already showed in its paper and type his straitened circum- 
 stances. The " Battle of Floddon," on the other hand, is a 
 specimen of Gent's best style : the type is handsome and must 
 have been new or nearly new when used to print that volume ; 
 the paper is of tolerable quality, superior to that of all his later 
 
Efje Ballali of jFIotition Jtflu. 135 
 
 works. We can, therefore, scarcely err in ascribing to Gent's 
 " Floddon " an earlier date than to the second edition of his 
 " East Window." It is not likely, on the other hand, to have 
 been, printed previous to 1755, for up to that date his volumes 
 contain numerous references to his other works, whilst no allu- 
 sion to " Floddon " is found in any of them. 
 
 The title is as follows : — " The Famous Old Ballad or History 
 of the Battles of Floddon Field. Which were fought between 
 the English under the Earl of Surrey, (in the absence of King 
 Henry VHI. of England, who was fighting in France) and the 
 Scots under their valiant King James IVth of Scotland, who was 
 slain in the said Battle, in the Year of our Blessed Lord, 1513. 
 Containing the valiant and renowned Actions of several Lords, 
 Knights and 'Squires. Part L York: Printed by Thomas Gent." 
 
 " To the Gentlemen, Yeomen, and Others, on the Borders of 
 Yorkshire, and the Borders and Fells of Lancashire, this Poem 
 of Floddon-Field is most humbly Dedicated." 
 
 Followed by the argument : — 
 
 "Whilst King Henry the VHIth of England was employ'd in 
 his war against France, James the IVth, King of Scotland, inva- 
 ded England in Person, with an Army of Fifty Thousand Men; 
 and, after a few days Siege, took Norham Castle. Upon which, 
 Thomas Earl of Surrey, with his eldest Son Lord Admiral 
 Howard, and brave Sir Edward Stanley, having an Army 
 of Twenty Six Thousand Men, march'd towards King James, 
 who had remov'd to a Hill, call'd Floddon, and sent the King a 
 Challenge b)^ the Herald at Arms. The last battle began, after 
 Provocations given, and Speeches made to encourage the 
 soldiers on either side ; and then the King's Battallion and the 
 Earl's maintain'd a long and cruel Fight. But the Earl's young- 
 est Son Sir Edmund Howard was at first distresst, by the valour 
 of the Earls of Lenox and Argyle ; when the Lord Dacres com- 
 ing to his Succour, as also one Heron, the fight was renew'd 
 with great vigour. In the mean time, Sir Edward Stanley, by 
 Means of his Archers, constrain'd the Scots to descend the Hills; 
 whose distress, perceived by King James, he performed wonders 
 in his Person; but pressing forward, he valiantly dy'd in the 
 Field of Battle. His Body was after honourably interr'd in 
 Shene in Surrey, haing reyn'd Twenty Five Years and was in the 
 Thirty Ninth of his Age. The Scots being defeated, lost most 
 of their Nobility, one Arch-Bishop, Two Bishops, 4 Abbots, and 
 Ten Thousand others ; and on the English side Five Thousand. 
 King Henry returning to England, made the Earl of Surrey 
 
136 E\)t BallaB of Jlotition Jtelti. 
 
 Duke of Northumberland, his eldest Son Lord Thomas Howard 
 Earl of Surrey, and Sir Edward Stanley Lord Mount-eagle, for 
 their brave Achievements in Floddon Field." 
 
 To part IL the following note is prefixed : — " In the first Part 
 of these Battles, it was very hard to make out the Copy, it being 
 much obliterated, and the leaves worn out in many places, so 
 that some words were forc'd to be added, and others more obso- 
 lete changed for the Ease of the Readers. How far it may give 
 Content they alone are to be Judges. Indeed the Poem itself 
 seems little inferior to that written on the famous Battle 
 of Chevy-Chase, which yet has not that lovely Description of the 
 pleasant Vallies, Mountains aiid Rivers, (so well known in the 
 Country) as this contains. Homer and Virgil are indeed more 
 rofin'd ; but one may venture to say, has not more Nature and 
 Truth in -their Poems. No false Gods are usher'd in to the 
 Assistance of the English Heroes, but the true Almighty invok'd 
 by the Prayers of the Church and People. And as this Poem is 
 redeemed from the Jaws of Time a while longer, methinks, at 
 least 'tis hop'd, it will not fail meeting with that Encouragement 
 due to such a painful Undertaking, as being both fit to inform 
 the elder Sort, and to entice Children to their Reading and 
 Learning." 
 
 Respecting the merits (or demerits) of Gent's editions, it 
 suffices to say that Gent dealt very summarily with any obscure 
 passai^cs or words in the manuscript before him, by simply 
 omitting them and substituting for them his own lucubrations 
 which in no single instance come up to the rugged and simple 
 beauty of the original text. It has been the care of the editor 
 of the present edition, to restore the original readings of the 
 manuscript, and he has for that purpose collated all the extant 
 authorities, especially the Palinsburn copy. 
 
 A third edition of the Ballad was published in 1773 at Ber- 
 wick, by Robert Lambe, vicar of Norham upon Tweed, which 
 edition was reprinted without alteration in " Ancient Historic 
 Ballads," published at Newcastle in 1807. Weber, in criticizing 
 this edition, did Lambe the honour of seriously refuting his 
 supposed claims to careful editorship, not being aware that 
 Lambe had not even the merit of bringing before the public a 
 bona-fide edition of his own; for this so-called "edition" is 
 solely a word-for-word reprint of Gent's book which had ap- 
 peared about twelve years before but had probably only become 
 known to a very limited circle of readers in and about York. 
 Every one of Gent's interpolations, every one of his absurdities 
 
E\}z Ballati of fflotiUflti jptelti. 137 
 
 is faithfully reproduced by Lambe who, it is evident, simply put 
 Gent's volume as copy into his own printer's hands. It is true 
 that he added an appendix of notes, which add little, however, to 
 the value of the work, for they are prolix and irrelevant where 
 the meaning of the text is perfectly clear, and scanty or entirely 
 absent where a text really requires elucidation. His deficient 
 philological knowledge, moreover, betrayed him into many 
 absurd statements. 
 
 A fourth edition, in small i2mo, was published the following 
 year, 1774, by Joseph Benson, "Philomath," and stated to be 
 " collected from ancient manuscripts." Benson appears to have 
 had access to some MS. not now known, for his readings of the 
 text differ in many places essentially both from the 1664 edition 
 and from the Palinsburn copy. 
 
 The next occasion on which the "Battle of Floddon" appeared 
 before the public, was in the excellent edition of Henry Weber, 
 which was printed by Ballantyne & Co., Edinburgh, in 1808. It is 
 a handsome 8vo. volume, of 389 pp., illustrated with three plates, 
 and contains, besides the text from the MS. in Sir Walter Scott's 
 possession, a list of various readings, a small glossary, and re- 
 prints of several pieces, in prose and verse, which treat of the 
 battle of Floddon. Had not this work become scarce, the editor 
 of the present edition would not have presumed to tread in the 
 steps of so consummate an antiquary as He;nry Weber. 
 
 A fragmentary edition, small 8vo. 16 pp., undated, was printed 
 at Skipton about the year 1867, but contains only the enumeration 
 of the English forces and the actual fight at Floddon, altogether 
 seventy stanzas. Fragmentary as it is, this little pamphlet is 
 valuable as giving a faithful copy of an early transcript of the 
 Palinsburn MS. We have found its aid invaluable in restoring 
 the text where Gent had " improved " it. 
 
 Respecting the merits of the ballad itself, the editor may be 
 permitted to quote Weber's estimate : — 
 
 It would be in vain to contend for any great share of poetical 
 merit in the execution ; but the unadorned and faithful manner 
 in which the battle is narrated, and the minute detail given 
 of circumstances, either but slightly touched upon by historians, 
 or utterly unnoticed by them, sufficiently account for the interest 
 excited by it. And though the general conduct of the poem be 
 prolix, and the style too much that of the chronicle ballad 
 writers, who preceded the more polished, but also more dull 
 tragedies of the Mirrour of Magistrates, there are not wanting 
 
138 ^\)z ISallati of Jlotitron JielH. 
 
 passages \yhich evince considerable vigour of \'erhification, 
 and spirit of narration ; and are certain indications of the 
 abilities of the anonymous author, to have composed a poem 
 of greater merit in point of execution. His object was certainly 
 not posthumous reputation; but to procure his fellow-countrymen 
 of the North of England, particularly those attached like him to 
 the noble house of Stanley, an accurate and minute account of a 
 victory, in which they had gained so much renown." 
 
 Wc may add that no finer specimen of alliterative poetry- is to 
 be met with in our early ballad literature. 
 
 3. — Henry \'ni., second son of Henry Yll. and Elizabeth 
 of York, was born 28 June, 149 1. His elder brother Arthur 
 dying without issue in 1502, Ht-nry became heir apparent to the 
 throne, which he actually ascended in 1509. The French wars 
 alluded to in the opening lines of our Ballad, refer in the first 
 instance to the English expedition which was sent in 15 12 to the 
 Peninsula, in order to cii-(jpcrate with Ferdinand V. of Aragon 
 in a proposed invasion of France, w hich was to bring about the 
 re-conquest of the formcrl)- English jjrovince of Gas( onw Fer- 
 dinand, however, found it more advantageous to make use of his 
 allies for the purpose of adding Na\arre to his own possessions, 
 so that the English expedition returned at last to England with- 
 out having actually set fmit on French soil. A fresh expedition 
 which set out the following yt-ur, 1513, under the command 
 of the king himself, was hoAve\er more successful. Henrv had 
 entered at the beginning of the \ ear into an alliance (the League 
 of Malinesj with the emperor Maximilian, the king of Aragon, 
 and pope Leo X., and to carry out its objects landed in Artois, 
 where he gained the battle of Guinegate, or Battle of Spurs as it 
 is sometimes called, in which the French geiularmerie was com- 
 plelel)- routeil. Henr\ was pressing the siege of Terouanne and 
 Toiirna}-, when the e\ents related in our ballad transpired in the 
 northern marches of England. The fall of these two towns, and 
 the defeat of the Seottish allies of France, brought about a truce 
 and the submission of the French King, who married jNIary 
 Tudor, sister of the king of England, but died a fi-w months 
 after the marriage. 
 
 4. — Floddon Mount. — "The eminence, called Floddon, lies 
 near the river Till. It is the last and lowest of those hills, that 
 extend on the north-east of the great mountain of Cheviot, 
 towards the low ground on the side of the Tweed, from which 
 river Floddon is distant about four miles. The ascent to the 
 top of it, from the side of the ri\'er Till, where it takes a north- 
 erly direction, just by the foot of the decli\ ity on which the 
 
castle and village of Ford stand, is about half a mile ; and over 
 the Till, at that place, there is a bridge. On the south of Flod- 
 don lies the extensive and very level plain of Millfield, having 
 on its west side high hills, the branches of the Cheviot ; on the 
 north, Floddon, and other moderate eminences adjoining to it ; 
 on the south and east, a tract of rising grounds, nigh the foot 
 of which is the slow and winding course of the Till. The near- 
 est approach for the English army to Floddon was through this 
 plain, in every part whereof they would have been in full view 
 of the Scots, where they had a great advantage in possessing an 
 eminence, which, on the side towards the English, had a long 
 declivity, with hollow and marshy grounds at its foot, while its 
 crown contained such an extent of almost level ground, as would 
 have sufficed for drawing up, in good order, the forces that 
 occupied it." — W. Hutchinson's Northumberland. 
 
 5. — Thomas Howard, earl of Surrey, was the son of Sir 
 John Howard, lord admiral of England, who fell at Bosworth 
 field in 1485. He was knighted for his remarkable courage at 
 the battle of Barnet, and made a knight of the Garter, i Rich. HI. 
 " He was taken prisoner in the battle of Bosworth, and com- 
 mitted to the Tower by Henry VH. and attainted by Parliament. 
 King Henry asked him, How he durst bear arms in behalf of that 
 tyrant Richard .^ to which he answered : ' He was my crowned 
 king, and if the parliamentary authority of England set the crown 
 upon a stock, I will fight for that stock ; and as I fought then 
 for him, I will fight for you, when you are established by the 
 said authority.' In the rebellion against the King, by the Earl 
 of Lincoln, the Lieutenant of the Tower offered the Earl of Sur- 
 rey the keys of the Tower, in order to set himself at liberty ; but 
 he replied, ' That he would not be delivered by any power but 
 by that which had committed him.' After he had been in prison 
 three years and a half, the King gave him his liberty ; and, 
 knowing his worth and nice sense of honour, he took him into 
 favour, and delivered up to him all his estates. The Earl took 
 all occasions of relieving the oppressed subjects, and was 
 accounted one of the ablest and greatest men in the kingdom. 
 The Scots made an irruption into England, and besieged Nor- 
 ham Castle : the Earl raised the siege, took the castle of Ayton, 
 and made all the country round a desert. James IV. of Scotland, 
 incensed at this, sent a herald with a challenge to him, to which 
 he made a sensible and spirited answer: 'That his life belonged 
 to the King, whilst he had the command of his army ; but when 
 that, was ended, that he would fight the King on horseback, or on 
 foot': adding, that, if he took the King prisoner in the combat, 
 
I40 E\)t aSallaU of JloDtion jTielti. 
 
 he would release him without any ransom ; and that if the 
 King should vanquish him, he would then pay such a sum for 
 his liberty, as was competent for the degree of an Earl.' A. 1501, 
 the Earl was Lord High Treasurer. In June 1502, Margaret, 
 the King's daughter, a beautiful princess, at the age of fourteen 
 years, was attended by the Earl of Surrey, with a great company 
 of lords, ladies, knights, and squires, to the town of Berwick, 
 whence she was conveyed to St. Lambert's church, in Lamyr- 
 moor, where King James, attended by the chiuf nobility, received 
 her, and carried her to Edinburgh. The next da)- after her arri- 
 val there, she was, with great solemnity, married unto him, in 
 the presence of all his nobles. The King gave great entertain- 
 ments to the English, whom the Scotch noblemen and ladies far 
 out-shone, both in costly apparel, rich jewels, massy chains, 
 habiliments set with goldsmith's work, garnished with pearl, and 
 stones of price, and in gallant and well-trapped horses. They 
 made also great feasts for the English lords and ladies, and 
 shewed them jousting and other pleasant p.istimcs, as good as 
 could be de\ised, after the manner of Scotland. Diverse ladies 
 of Queen Margaret's train remained in Scotland, and were after- 
 wards well married to noblemen." — Lesly, Holixshed. 
 
 " In 1507, two vears before the death of Henry VII., the Earl 
 was appointed ambassador to the King of France. 2 Henry 
 VIII., he was made Earl Marshall for life. a. 15 ii, he was one 
 of the commissioners at the court of Arragnn. Vlien Henry 
 VIII. heard that the Scots were preparing to in\-a(le England, 
 he said, " That he had left a nobleman, who would defend his 
 subjects from insults." After the battle of Floddon, the Earl 
 himself presented King James's armour tn the (Jueen-regent. 
 When the King returned from Frami.-, he gaw the Earl an aug- 
 mentation of his arms, viz. to bear on the bend, the upjier part 
 of a red lion, depicted in the same manner as the arms of Scot- 
 land, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, a. 151-1., [the 
 first of Eebruar}-,] the Earl was created Duke of Norfolk, and a 
 grant was given him in special tail of several manors. Lie hated 
 and opposed Cardinal 'v\'olsey, because he ad\ised the King to 
 measures hurtful to the liberties of the people. Finding that 
 this opposition availed nothing, he resigned his post, and retired 
 from court. He died A. 1515, [the 21st iMay."] — Lambe. 
 
 6. — Sir Edward Stanley, the fifth son of Thomas, first Earl 
 of Derb}-, commanded the rear at the battle of Floddon, and, 
 with his Laneashire archers, forced the right wing of the Scots 
 from its advantageous position on the hill, and by this manoeuvre 
 
E\}c Ballalr of Jlotition Jteltr. 141 
 
 decided the battle. For these services, he was, the following 
 year, created Lord Monteagle, because his ancestors bore an 
 eagle for their crest. From the distinguished manner in which 
 he is mentioned by our poet, celebrating his achievements above 
 those of all the other English generals, particularly those of the 
 Howard family, a close connection with the Stanleys may be 
 inferred. The northern idioms which abound in this work joined 
 to the above evidence, render it more than probable, that the 
 author was a retainer, or at least under the influence of that 
 family. — Weber. 
 
 Sir Edward Stanley made a solemn declaration before he 
 went to this battle, that if he returned victorious, he would do 
 something to the honour of God ; and accordingly, on his 
 return, he began to build the magnificent chapel of Hornby; the 
 steeple being an octagon of hewn stone, of an extensive height, 
 with six bells ; the chancel of the like stone, with diverse figures 
 thereon, and the roof covered with lead. An eagle cut in stone, 
 with an inscription in Roman text, " Edwardus Stanh-y, Miles, 
 Dominiis Monteagle, JMc fieri fecit T He dying before it was per- 
 fected, the parish finished the body of the chapel, which is of 
 inferior work. — Benson. 
 
 7. — BiSHOPRiCK, i.e. the bishoprick of Durham. 
 
 8. — Dacres. The family of the Dacres of Gilsland, which is 
 here spoken of, must not be mistaken for the Yorkshire Dacres. 
 Thomas, lord Dacre of Gilsland, was one of the most active 
 generals and wardens against Scotland. Notwithstanding the 
 aspersions cast upon him by some enemies at court, against 
 which he fully defends his conduct in a curious letter to the 
 council, dated 15 14, and printed from the original in Pinkerton's 
 History of Scotland, he is spoken of in high terms in the original 
 Gazette of Floddon-Field, by the Lord Admiral, who seems 
 to have drawh up the account. As the whole passage strongly 
 vindicates the warden's character, and, at the same time, the 
 defeat of Sir Edmond Howard is candidly allowed, it shall be 
 extracted at length :— " Item— Edmond Haward, second filz du 
 Conte de Surrey, avoit avec luy mil hommes du pays de Lanq- 
 chere et Cheshire, et plusieurs autres gentilz hommes de la 
 Conte d'York. Et faisoit le d'Edmond la droicte elle du seigneur 
 de Haward son frere, surlequelz le seigneur Chambellan du Roy 
 d'Ecosse, avec plusieurs autres srs. donnerent dedens. Maistre 
 Gray, et Mesr Humfrey, demourent prisonnirs,, et Messire 
 Richard Harbottell tue, et le d'Edmond Haward fut trois fois 
 abatu ; et vint a son relief le seigneur Dacres avec XVc hommes ; 
 
142 Efit Ballati of JlotiBon JielH. 
 
 et tellement exploicta quil mist en fuyte le d'Escossois, et eut 
 envyron . . . , des gens dud. seigneur Dacres tuez, et en la 
 d'bataille fut tue ung grant nombre des d'Escossois." • 
 
 Lord Dacre accompanied, in 9 Henry VII., the Earl of Surrey 
 in his expedition to the relief of Norham-castle. At the battle 
 of Floddon he commanded the cavalry, and encountered the 
 Earls of Huntley and Hume, where, of the Homes, Sir John, 
 Cuthbert of Fastcastle, and many others were slain. In 1512, 
 he accepted the office of Warden of the East and Middle 
 Marches, which Lord Darcy had refused. He seems subse- 
 quently also to have had the West Marches under his control ; 
 and in the above-mentioned letter boasts of having destroyed 
 six times more Scottish towns and houses, than the Scots had 
 been able to burn. At the same time he accuses Lord Darcy, 
 the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Durham, and William 
 Heron of Ford, of refusing to obey his summons. Besides his 
 martial exploits, he carried on various negotiations, to the 
 great advancement of English influence at the court of Scotland. 
 — Weber. 
 
 9 & 10. — Latham House, near Ormskirk, in Lancashire. 
 "This family is originally from Cheshire, but removed hither 
 upon this occasion. Sir John Stanley married the sole heiress 
 of Sir Thomas Latham, and had with her this seat, and a large 
 estate belonging to it ; to which he, upon his marriage, remov- 
 ing, made many additions, that, with what his successors built 
 afterwards, it became the principal seat of the family. This 
 house is famous for a siege of two year's continuance, maintained 
 by Charlotte, Countess of Derb}', against the Parliament forces, 
 who were forced to leave it untaken, though they afterwards 
 became masters of it, and laid it almost level with the ground ; 
 the heroic lord of it being beheaded at Bolton, October 15, 
 165 1." — Benson. 
 
 II. — Henry, lord Clifford, the "Shepherd Lord," was 
 born in 1453, two years before the battle of St. Albans in which 
 his grand-parent, Thomas Lord Clifford, was slain. This bereave- 
 ment gave to John, the succeeding lord, cause for prosecuting 
 with increased bitterness the part he had marked out for himself. 
 But in 1 46 1 he too fell, and thus in a time of unparalleled dis- 
 quiet the youthful Henry, future lord of Skipton, was left, with a 
 younger brother and sister, to the care of a defenceless mother. 
 For the estates of John Lord Clifford, as of many other Lancas- 
 trian nobles, were at once seized by the king under an Act of 
 Attainder. The mode adopted by Lady Clifford for preserving 
 
L 
 
 Cfje Ballali of JTlotitioix JiclU. 
 
 143 
 
 the young heir was a verj' ingenious one. When but seven years 
 of age, while yet unable to comprehend the danger which threat- 
 ened him, he was sent to Londesbrough, and given over to the 
 charge of a shepherd, who clothed him and in every way treated 
 him as his own child. He was subsequently sent, for greater 
 safety, to Threlkeld, in Cumberland, where he remained for 
 twenty-five years in concealment, living the life of a shepherd, 
 till after the battle of Bosworth, when he was restored by Henry 
 VH. to his honours, being then thirty-one years old, and unable 
 to read. He was greatly attached to astronomy; and in order to 
 indulge his propensity to that art, built Barden-tower, in York- 
 shire, near the priory of Bolton ; for the canons of this house 
 were great adepts at that science. He accompanied the Earl 
 of Surrey in his expedition to Norham and Ayton castle. At 
 Floddon-Field he bore a principal command. He died April 
 17, 1523. (See also Dawson's History of Skipton,) 
 
 J 2. — Thomas Stanley, first earl of Derby, was one of the 
 chief supporters of Henry VH, in his endeavours to gain the 
 crown of England. He built Greenhaugh Castle, near Garstang, 
 in Lancashire, as a garrison for the king. 
 
 13. — Henry, lord Scroop of Upsall, seventh baron, suc- 
 ceeded to the title in 1494 ; he was summoned to Parliament 28 
 November, 1511, and died without issue. 
 
 14. — Thomas, second earl of Derby, is here alluded to. He 
 succeeded his grandfather in the year 1504. He attended 
 Henry VHI. in his expedition to Therouenne and Tournay in 
 15 13, and died the 24th of May, 1522. 
 
 15. — Sir William Buljier of Brumspeth castle. The last 
 of this family, summoned as peer of the realm to parliament, 
 was Ralph, from i till 24 Edward HI. Sir William routed the 
 borderers under Lord Home, who had made an incursion into 
 England, previous to the battle of Floddon. 
 
 16. — House of Fence, see note on page 91. 
 
 17. — War in France, see note 3, ante. 
 
 18. — James IV., king of Scotland, was born 17 March, 1472, 
 being the son of James III. by Margaret of Denmark. He was 
 of an open and generous disposition, and obtained the aifection 
 of his people by his many good qualities. Successful in his 
 early enterprises both by land and by sea, he entered into a 
 treaty of amity and alliance with Henry VII. of England in 1503, 
 the first after nearly 200 years of continual strife between Scot- 
 land and England. To make this treaty more binding, James 
 
144 ^i)e BallaO of Jlotition Jtelti. 
 
 married Margaret, sister of Henry VII. of England. After the 
 death of the latter, in 1500, however, the relations between the 
 two countries became less friendly, and in 1 5 1 1 , James demanded 
 reparation for an outrage on the Scottish flag (for which see note 
 22, on Andrew Barton, below), which was contemptuously 
 refused. The murder of Sir Robert Ker, (see note 25, on Scotch 
 Warden, below), by some English Borderers, and the detention 
 of queen Margaret's jewels, were further causes leading to the 
 crisis which culminated in the disastrous battle of Floddon. 
 
 ig. — The alleged homage of England to the crown of Scot- 
 land has no better foundation than the overrunning of the whole 
 island by the Picts and Scots previous to the invasion of Britain 
 by the Anglo-Saxons. 
 
 20. — Douglas. The family of Douglas is the oldest and 
 most celebrated of Scottish families. The first member of it of 
 whom we have any direct record, is William of Douglas, who 
 witnesses a royal charter in 1175. The Douglas alluded to in 
 our ballad, is Archibald Douglas, surnamed "Bell-the-Cat," and 
 also " the Great Earl," son of George, fourth earl of Angus, the 
 " Red Douglas " who aided the king in his expedition against 
 the " Black Douglasses." Archibald Douglas filled all the 
 highest offices in the state, and died at Whithorn in Galloway in 
 1 5 14. His grandson, also called Archibald, married Margaret 
 of England, widow of James lY 
 
 2 1. — Sir Edward Howard, son of Thomas Howard, and 
 brother of Thomas, first created by Henry VIII. lord admiral 
 of the fleet in consequence of the brilliant action related in the 
 next note. He lost his life in 1513 in boarding a French vessel 
 off Brest (see note 69). 
 
 22. — AxDREW Bartom. The reference here is to the battle 
 which was fought in the )'ear 151 1, between a gallant Scottish 
 mariner. Sir Andrew Barton, and Sir Thomas Howard and Sir 
 Edward his brother, sons to the earl of Surrey, afterwards duke 
 of Norfolk. Barton, it appears, ha\ing suffered both insult and 
 loss from the Portuguese, fitted out two ships of war, by permis- 
 sion of James IV. of Scotland, to make reprisals, and such was 
 his success that he enriched himself and became a terror of the 
 seas. Under pretence of searching for Portuguese merchandise, 
 he stopped and, it is added, pillaged some of the ships of Eng- 
 land. This so exasperated Surrey, that he declared at the 
 English council-board the narrow seas should not be so infested 
 while he had an estate to furnish a ship and a son to command 
 one. King Henry took Surrey at his word: two ships were fitted 
 
out at the earl's expense, and sent to sea under the command 
 of his sons, with orders to intercept and capture Barton, which 
 they were not the less willing to undertake, knowing that his 
 ships were richly laden. The engagement which ensued was 
 bloody and obstinate, and of long duration ; but the fortune of 
 the Howards prevailed : Barton fell fighting valiantly ; his ships 
 were carried into the Thames : the wealth obtained was large, 
 and Sir Edward Howard was soon afterwards created Admiral 
 of England. This act, committed in the time of peace, exasper- 
 ated the Scots : Henry, to pacify them, liberated the crews, and 
 offered to allow the aggrieved parties to prosecute their claims 
 of restitution in the English courts of law. 
 
 23. — Gelders. The long-standing quarrels between Henry 
 VII. of England and the archduke Philip, duke of Burgundy 
 and Gelderland, culminated in the ungenerous conduct 
 of Henry, who, when Philip was driven by a tempest upon 
 the shores of England, forced him to sign a humiliating treaty 
 between England and Flanders. 
 
 24. — Heron. For the old Northumbrian family of Heron see 
 the " Genealogical History of the Family of Heron" published 
 in London, in 1803, from which we extract the following note 
 referring to the Bastard Heron: — "John Heron, the bastard, 
 was son of John Heron of Ford, by a concubine. Having in an 
 affray at a border-meeting unfortunately killed Sir Robert Ker, 
 warden of the middle marches, butler to James IV., and a great 
 favourite with the King, he was outlawed in both kingdorr»s. 
 Henry VII., to appease his son-in-law, delivered Sir William 
 Heron to James, who kept him a prisoner in Fastcastle-Tower, 
 in the Merse, on a rock above the Firth of Forth, until the battle 
 of Floddon Field. In the first onset of the battle, the right 
 wing of the English army was defeated, and Sir Edmund 
 Howard, who commanded it, being left alone on the ground, the 
 Bastard, at the head of a troop of horse he had disciplined in 
 the Cheviot mountains, threw himself between the two armies, 
 and engaged the enemy until the English rallied. Some accounts 
 join Lord Dacre with the Bastard in this action ; but Hall, an 
 author of great authority, says in his Chronicle, "that Heron, 
 the bastard, though much wounded, rescued Sir Edmund ; and 
 that Lord Dacre, wyth hys company, stode styl al day unfoughten 
 withall." This is, however, disproved by Dacre's letter printed 
 in Piukerton's History, and by the original Gazette of the Lord 
 Admiral. The Bastard, who was a famous warrior in those days, 
 was afterwards killed, as some authors report, in an engagement 
 on the Borders. He must have been older than his brothers ; 
 for on the death of Sir Ralph Grey, the 4th April, 1506, Johis 
 
146 S;i)E BaUati of Jlotjbon Jtelu. 
 
 Heron Bastardus was found to be seised of the manors of Chilt- 
 ingham, Howick, &c. &:c. as surviving feoffee, in trust for Lady 
 Grey for life. It is therefore probable, the Bastard was born 
 before his father's marriage" 
 
 25. — Murder of the Scotch Warden. Sir Robert Carr, 
 [Ker] was made by James IV. his chief butler, engineer, and 
 warden of the midillc marches. He was much estLcnied -by the 
 King for his virtuous qualities. He was a severe punisher of the 
 English and Scotch Border-robbers, therefore they were deter- 
 mined to destroy him. At a solemn meeting between the English 
 and Scotch, [a. 151 i.] in order to reclaim stolen goods, alterca- 
 tions arose, when three desperate Englishmen, John Heron the 
 Bastard, Lilburn, and Starhed, fell upon him ; one of whom 
 stabbed him with a spear in the back, and the other two des- 
 patched him. Henry VII., enraged at this villanous action, 
 delivered William Heron, laird of Ford, brother to the Bastard, 
 and Lilburn, to the Scots, who imprisoned them in Fastcastle 
 tower in the Merse, where the latter died. The Bastard and 
 Starhed hid themselves in the interior parts of England, until 
 the reign of Henry VIII. when the Bastard, trusting to the 
 power of his relations, appeared openly at his own house, and 
 privately sent thieves into Scotland to disturb the peace. Star- 
 hed thought himself safe, having built himself a house at the 
 distance of ninety miles from the Border. But Andrew Carr, 
 the son of Robert, prevailed upon two of his dependants, of the 
 name of Tate, to disguise themselves, who entered Starhed's 
 house at night, and brought away his head to Andrew, who fixed 
 it in one of the most conspicuous places of the city of Edinburgh. 
 
 26.— Maxwell, John, fourth lord IMaxwell, fell at Flodden. 
 
 27. — Louis XII. of France, was born at Blois in 1462, son 
 of Charles, duke of Orleans, and Marie de Cleves. He was 36 
 years of age when he ascended the throne of France and suc- 
 ceeded to the rich heritage left to him by Louis XI. He devoted 
 all the resources of his kingdom to the attempted conquest of 
 Ital)', and thereby rendered himself unable to cope successfully 
 with the powers who formed the coalition of Malines against 
 him. These powers, viz. Henry VHI. of England, the German 
 emperor Maximilian, Ferdinand of Castile, and the pope, sent 
 their troops to invade France in 15 12, while Louis' sdlt ally, 
 James IV. of Scotland, who hoped to assist him by invading 
 England during Henry's absence in France, met with the 
 terrible disaster at Flodden which forms the subject of our 
 ballad : so that Louis XII. was obliged to purchase peace 
 by submitting to the conditions imposed by the victorious 
 
2ri)e aSallali of JloDfion jTidtr. 147 
 
 coalition. These conditions, as far as England was concerned, 
 included the marriage of Louis with Mary, sister of Henry 
 VIII., and the payment of 100,000 crowns per annum for 
 ten years to the English monarch. Louis, however, died a 
 few months after the marriage, on the ist of January, 1515, 
 in his fifty-third year. 
 
 28. — Berwick-on-Tweed, for a long time a county of itself, 
 and now an integral part of Northumberland, formerly belonged 
 undoubtedly to the realm of Scotland. It was frequently taken 
 and re-taken by the English and the Scots, but in 1482 passed 
 finally into the permanent possession of the English, by whom 
 it was strongly garrisoned at the time of the battle of Floddon. 
 
 29. — Hume. Alexander, third Lord Hume, succeeded his father 
 in 1506. He was a man of great abilities, and was promoted 
 by James IV. to the office of Lord High Chamberlain, in the 
 end of 1507. While this sovereign lived, he continued in high 
 favour. Previous to the battle of Floddon, he made, probably 
 by order of the King, an inroad into England, but was defeated 
 by Sir William Bulmer, and the prey he had collected taken 
 from him. Nothwithstanding the calumnies of historians, who 
 went so far as to accuse him of murdering his sovereign subse- 
 quently to the battle, it appears that he fought with great 
 bravery. He continued in favour during the minority of James 
 V. ; till his opposition to Albany having caused his exile, he 
 imprudently returned, and, being tried and convicted of treason 
 before the parliament of Scotland, he was beheaded Oct. 8, 1 5 1 6. 
 
 30.- — Dellamount. It has been attempted to identify this 
 personage with Sir David Lindsay " of the Mount," who was 
 Lyon-king-at-arms in 1530, i.e. seventeen years after the battle 
 (see Notes & Queries sth S.x. 221, 473). There is not a 
 particle of evidence, however, to show that a Scottish Lyon-king 
 is referred to in this stanza ; on the contrary, the expression 
 "Dellamount who bodword out of France did bring," can only 
 denote a special messenger sent by the king of France, to 
 request the aid of the Scottish King against F'ngland. Delmont, 
 Delemont, Delamont, are still surnames common enough in 
 France ; moreover, the fact of this personage being a foreigner 
 becomes clear from his describing the leaders of the English 
 army by their banners and coats-of-arms, whilst his hearers, viz. 
 king James and the Scottish nobles, identify them one after 
 another from his description. Had Dellamount been a Scottish 
 Lyon-king, he would certainly have been far more likely to know 
 their names than his hearers did. It will be superfluous to ask 
 how our Craven author could become acquainted with the fact 
 
of Sir David Lindsay's being Scottish Lyon-king, in 1530, 
 during the time of almost complete cessation of intercourse 
 which followed the events related in our ballad. 
 
 31. — Herbert. Charles, natural son of Henry, Duke of 
 Somerset, and a man of great abilities, was constituted in 1509 
 one of the privy council, and acquired the title of Lord Herbert, 
 by his marriage with Elizabeth, heiress of William Herbert, 
 Earl of Huntingdon. He had summons to the parliaments in 
 1509 and 151 1 among the barons, by the name of Charles 
 Somerset de Herbert Chevalier. He attended ILnryA'HL with 
 6000 foot to Therouenne and Tournay ; and, for his valour, 
 : received the office of Lord Chamberlain for life, and the title 
 
 of Earl of Worcester. He died in the year 1525, and was buried 
 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. 
 
 32. — PlERCY. Henry Percy, fifth Earl of Northumberland, 
 I succeeded his father, who was murdered by the rebels, as Lieu- 
 
 j tenant of Yorkshire, in 4 Henr}- VH. In the battle of Black- 
 
 heath, against Lord Audlev and his followers, he was one of the 
 chief commanders. In 15 13 he accompanied Henry VIII. to 
 Therouenne, and died a. 1525. 
 
 3^. — Shrewsbury. George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 
 succeeded his father, who died September 26th, 14IJ+. In 1487, 
 he fought at the battle of Stoke, near Newark, against the rebels, 
 and, three years after that, was sent with others to Flanders, to 
 the aid of the emperor Maximilian. In 1513, he commanded 
 the vanguard of the king's arm}' at Therouenne. He made 
 some inroads into Scotland, as lieutenant of the north, in 1522 ; 
 and in 1537 marched as the King's lieutenant to quell the insur- 
 rection in Yorkshire, called the Pilgrimage of Grace. He died 
 July 26th, 1542. 
 
 34. — Darcy. Thomas, Lord Darcy, succeeded William in 
 1497. In the same year he marched with Thomas, Earl of 
 Surrey, to the relief of Norham castle. In 1498, being made a 
 knight of the King's body, he was made constable of the castle 
 of Bamlirougli, and, in the ensuing year, captain of the town 
 and castle of Berwick ; also warden of the East and Middle 
 Marches. In 1502, he was one of the commissioners to receive 
 the oath of James IV., on a treaty of peace. He was appointed 
 general warden of the marches towards Scotland in 1506, and 
 served two campaigns in the wars of Ferdinand of Arragon 
 against the Moors, in 1 5 10 and 1511. The 20th of June, 1539, 
 he was beheaded for delivering up Pontefract castle to Robert 
 Aske, commander of the rebels assembled on account of 
 religious differences in the north. 
 
Ef)0 BallaH of Jlotilion jFieltr. 
 
 149 
 
 35. — Dudley. Edward, Lord Dudley, Knight of the Garter, 
 was summoned to Parliament from 1492 to 1530. 
 
 36. — Delaware. Thomas West, Lord La Warre, succeeded 
 his father in 16 Edward IV. He died 9th October, 1554. 
 
 37. — Druery. For a full pedigree of the Drury family, see 
 " History and Antiquities of Hawsted and Hardwick," by the 
 Rev. Sir John CiiUum, Knt., London, 1H13. 
 
 38. — Buckingham. Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, 
 succeeded his father, who was executed for rising in arms against 
 Richard HL He was one of the commanders against the Cor- 
 nishmen in 13 Henry VH. Shortly before his fall, the splendour 
 of his appointment was greater than that of any other nobleman. 
 He was ruined by the knavery of Knivet, a steward whom he 
 had discharged for his tyranny against his tenants ; and by the 
 enmity and envy of Wolsey. He was beheaded May 17th, 1521. 
 
 39. — CoBHAM. Thomas Brooke, Lord Cobham, succeeded 
 his father in 1506. He was with Henry VIII. at Therouenne 
 and Tournay, and the following year was sent with Lord Aber- 
 gavenny to Calais. He died the 19th July, 1521. 
 
 40.' — WiLLOUGHBY. Sir John Willoughby, of Middleton in 
 the county of Warwick married one of the sisters of John Grey, 
 viscount Lisle. In the church at Middleton there are many 
 monuments to this family. 
 
 4]. — Essex. Henry Bouchier, Earl of Essex, succeeded 1483. 
 In I Henry VII. he was one of the privy council, and a. 1493 
 attended that King to the siege of Boulogne. Four years after 
 he was one of the chief commanders at Blackheath, against the 
 Cornish insurgents. In 1509 he was appointed by Henry VIII. 
 captain of his horseguard. In 15 13, he was at Therouenne and 
 Tournay, being then Lieutenant General of all the king's spears. 
 He was killed by a fall from his horse, a. 1540. 
 
 ^2. — Stafford. Henry Stafford, created 1508 Earl of Wilt- 
 shire. He died without issue, March 6th, 1522. 
 
 43. — Gray. Richard de Grey, Earl of Kent, Knight of the 
 Garter, attended Henry VIII. to Therouenne, and died the 3rd 
 of May, 1524. 
 
 44. ^Hastings. George, Lord Hastings, succeeded 1507, 
 and attended Henry VIII. to Therouenne in 15 13. He was 
 created Earl of Huntingdon in 1530; and in 1537 marched with 
 other lords against the Pilgrimage of Grace. He died the 24th 
 of March, 1554. 
 
ISO E\}t JBallati of Jloitiou Jteltt. 
 
 45. ^Dorset. Thomas Gru^-, iManiuis of Dorset, succeeded 
 his father in 18 Hunrv AIL In 1511 he was general of the 
 troops Sent to Spain. In 1513, he and four of his brothers, 
 with some other English gentlemen, attended the tournament 
 proclaimed at St. Denis, by Francis de Valois, heir of the 
 crown of France. At the meeting of Henry VIII. and Francis 
 I., he carried the sword of the former. He died A. 1530. 
 
 46. — FiTzwATER. Robert Radcliife, Lord Fitzwalter, having 
 borne arms for Percy Warbeck, was attainted. After his death 
 the son was restored by Henry VII. in 1506, to his honours. 
 He was at the siege of Therouenne and Tournay. In 1523, 
 he led the van in Surrey's expedition into France ; and in 
 1526, was created Viscount Fitzwalter for his services, and the 
 28th September, 1529, Earl of Sussex. He was appointed Lord 
 High Chancellor of England for life, and died October 17, 1542. 
 
 48. — Hume of Loudon, see note 29. 
 
 49. — Sir John Nevil, grandson of Ralph, lord Nevil, of Raby 
 Castle and earl of Westmoreland. 
 
 50. — Lyon-king, at the period of the battle of Floddon, was 
 Sir William Cumyng of Inverallochy, second son of William 
 Cumyng of Coulter who was Marchmont herald in 1499. 
 
 51. — Terwin. Terouanne, in Picardy, near St. Omer, in the 
 department of Pas de Calais. 
 
 52. Harrad is Harewood, in Yorkshire, the history and 
 antiquities of which were written by John Jones; London: 
 Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1859. 
 
 S3- — Judge Gascoigne. Sir William Gascoigne was born in 
 1350, at Gawthorp, near Harewood. He studied at Cambridge, 
 entered Gray's Inn, and rapidly rose in favour at court. He was 
 appointed chief justice in 1401. His committal of Henry V. to 
 prison while yet Prince of Wales, for striking him while on the 
 seat of justice, is immortalized in Shakespeare's Henry IV. 
 He retired from public life in 14 13, and died in 141 9. 
 
 54.— RuDiMOND. Sir Richard Redman, knight, son of John 
 de Redman, of Cumberland and Yorkshire, married Elizabeth, 
 co-heiress of Sir William de Aldburgh, of Harewood Castle, 
 He died in 1423, and was interred in Harewood church where a 
 splendid recumbent monument perpetuates his memory. 
 
 S4a.— Sir Philip Tilney, of a family long settled in Suffolk 
 and Norfolk. His daughter Agnes became the second wife of 
 the earl of Surrey who commanded at Floddon, 
 
E\)e Ballati of Jlotition JtrlD. 151 
 
 55. — Sir Richard Appleyard, of Burstwick Garth in Holder- 
 ness. 
 
 57. — Alexander Stuart, archbishop of St. Andrews, natural 
 son of James IV., by Margaret, daughter of Archibald Boyd 
 of Bonshaw, was born in 1495- His father loaded him with 
 honours political and ecclesiastical though but a youth. 
 
 58. — St. Andrew. The diocese of St. Andrews was under 
 the invocation of Andrew, the apostle, brother of Peter. 
 
 59. — Trimon of Quitorn. St. Ninian's of Withorn, a cele- 
 brated shrine in Galloway, visited by high and low in mediaeval 
 times. The festival of St. Ninian was on the i6th September. 
 
 60. — DoFFiN. Duthack, Bishop and confessor, lived at Tain 
 in Ross-shire. His festival fell on the 31st August. 
 
 61. — NoRHAM Castle was built against the inroads of the 
 Scottish borderers, by Ranulph Flamberg, bishop of Durham, 
 in 21 Henry I. Henry Puteal, one of his successors, built the 
 great tower in ii8o. The Scots having destroyed it, bishop 
 Hugh Pudsey rebuilt it in the reign of king Stephen. Edward I. 
 called a Parliament to Norham in 1291, and received there the 
 formal acknowledgment by the Scottish lords of his sovereignty 
 over Scotland. 
 
 62. — St. Cuthbert of Durham, one of the great saints 
 of England, was born about 635, of humble parents. A vision 
 which he had in 651, when watching his flock, induced him to 
 enter monastic life at Melrose. He became successively prior 
 of Lindisfarne, an anchorite on Fame Island, abbot of Lindis- 
 farne, and bishop of Hexham, and finally died as an anchorite 
 on the 20th March, 687. 
 
 63. — Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough, knt., 
 was born in the year 1441. He had four sons; but how 
 many of them attended him to the Field of Floddon, we are 
 not able to determine. They were all knighted ; the eldest. Sir 
 Robert, on the 17th of June, a.d. 1497, at the battle of Black- 
 heath. The others were. Sir Marmaduke, of Everingham ; Sir 
 William Constable, of Hatfield in Holderness, and Sir John 
 Constable of Kinalton. Sir Robert having been active in the 
 rising about religion, in 28 Henry VIII., was pardoned, but 
 being again implicated in the revolt of Lord Hussey, and others, 
 was attainted, and executed at Hull. His son, Marmaduke, 
 attended Henry VIII. to Terouenne, and was knighted at Lille 
 the 14th October, 15 13. 
 
 67.— Sir Bryan Tunstall's effigy, in full proportion, cut 
 in stone, lies over his body in the chancel of Tunstal Church 
 
152 E\)z BallaO of Jlotition Jtdti. 
 
 (Holderness). His residence was at Thurland Castle, in Lanca- 
 shire. 
 
 68 and 69. — See notes 5 and 21. 
 
 70. — Barthrumb's Bay, or Conquete Harbour. Sir Edward 
 Howard, second son of the Earl of Surrey, Lord Admiral of 
 England, appeared before Brest Harbour with forty-two vessels, 
 and challenged the French fleet to combat. But the latter 
 waited for reinforcements, which soon appeared, commanded 
 by Prejeant da Bidoux. The gallant Admiral, however, would 
 not await the junction of the fleet, but attacked it in Conquete 
 harbour. He was the first who boarded the Admiral's ship, 
 having rowed up with two gallies, filled with officers ; and 
 was followed by one Carroz, a Spanish cavalier, and seven- 
 teen Englishmen. The French meanwhile cut the cable ; and 
 Howard continuing to fight, was pushed overboard by the pikes, 
 and drowned. The fleet, upon his death, returned to England. 
 
 71. — King Richard's Feild, i.e., the battle of Bosworth. 
 
 73. — Sir David Hall was one of the chief supporters of the 
 Duke of York, and strongly dissuaded him from leaving the safe 
 shelter of Sandal Casilc to meet the superior forces of Queen 
 Margaret. He fell at the battle of Wakefield. 
 
 74. — John, Duke of Bedford, third son of Henry IV. of 
 England, was born in 1389. He was go\-crnor of Berwick and 
 warden of the Scottish marches. After the death of his brother, 
 Henry V., he went to France as regent, and defeated the French 
 in various battles. The fight alluded to in this stanza, is the 
 battle of Verneuil, in 1424, when the dauphin was disastrously 
 routed. He died 19th September, 1435. 
 
 75. — Talbot, see note 33. 
 
 76. — The raging Boar was the symbol of the earl of War- 
 wick. 
 
 77. — ;\Lalcolm HL, king of Scotland, was killed at a place 
 called jMalcoIm's well, near Alnwick, in 1092. 
 
 78. — King David H, (David Bruce), son of king Robert 
 Bruce lost 15,000 men at the battle of Neville's Cross, in 1346, 
 and was himself taken prisoner and shut up in the Tower 
 of London. He was ransomed in 1357 for 10,000 marks, and 
 died at Edinburgh, 22nd February, 137 1. 
 
 79. — This battle was fought the 14th September, 1402, at 
 Hamildon, in Northumberland. 
 
Ete aSallaU of iFloUtton Jteltr. 153 
 
 80.— Ralph, third baron Ogle, was summoned to parliament 
 in 1508 and 151 1 ; his son Robert was summoned 23rd Novem- 
 ber, 1514, so that Ralph cannot have survived the battle long. 
 
 81. — Hauton Hills, the upper part of Litton Dale, with 
 Halton Gill. 
 
 82. — John, lord Lumley, and Richard Nevil, lord Latimer ; 
 the latter died in 1530. 
 
 83. — William Conyers, son of Sir John Conyers by Margery, 
 second daughter and co-heir of baron Philip Darcy. He died 
 in 1524. 
 
 84. — Blackamoor, the upper part of Nidderdale. 
 
 86. — Sir Walter Griffin, of an ancient Cheshire family. 
 His residence was at Bartherton, near Nantwich. 
 
 87. — Sir John Everingham de Wadsley was High Sheriff 
 for the County of York in 1512. He resided at Everingham 
 Park, near Pocklington. 
 
 88. — Sir Christopher Ward, of Grindall, near Bridlington, 
 was standard-bearer to Henry VHL at Rouen. The original 
 family seats were at Brereton and Scotton. 
 
 8g. — Martin Swart, or Schwartz, a German colonel serving 
 under John, Earl of Lincoln, was defeated by Henry VH., at 
 Stoke, near Newark. 
 
 90. — Sir Richard Bold, of Bold, in Lancashire, married the 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Brindall. 
 
 91. — Sir Thomas Butler, of Warrington, married Margaret, 
 daughter of John Delves, of Doddington, in Cheshire. He died 
 in 1523- 
 
 92. — Richard Cholmondeley, of Cholmondeley, in Cheshire, 
 was knighted in 12 Henry VH., for his services against Perkin 
 Warbeck ; and, at the battle of Floddon, commanded the forces 
 of the town of Kingston upon Hull. For his achievements in 
 this victory he was made lieutenant of the Tower of London. 
 He died in the year 1521. 
 
 93. — Henry, Lord Scrope, of Bolton, married Alice, sole 
 daughter and heiress of Thomas Scrope, of Upsall, thus uniting 
 for a time the two branches of the Scrope family, viz., from 1493 
 to 1501. 
 
 94. — KiDSON Causey. — See note 42, on page 108. 
 
 95. — Sir William Gascoigne, son of Sir William Gascoigne, 
 of Gawthorpe, by Margaret, daughter of Richard Nevil, lord 
 Latimer. 
 
154 SCfjE BallaK of JFlotilion JFielli. 
 
 96. — The family of Stapylton, which settled at Myton, in 
 the time of Charles I., formerly resided at Carleton and Wighill. 
 
 97. — Markenfil. Sir Ninian Markenfield of Markenfield 
 Hall, Markington, near Ripon. The estate became forfeited to 
 the crown in 1569, Sir Thomas Markenfield having joined in the 
 rebellion in the North. 
 
 98. — Maundevill. — Sir John Normanville led five hundred 
 men from the city and ainsty of York at Floddon. 
 
 99. — Sir Gdy Dawnay,, ancestor of the present viscount 
 Downe. Dawby, probably refers to Sir Christopher Danby, 
 who was knighted after the battle. 
 
 100.— Richard Tempest. His family has been seated for 
 some centuries at Broughton Hall, near Skipton. 
 
 loi. — James Johnston, lord of Johnston, succeeded his father 
 in 1509, and died in 1528. 
 
 102. — The Musgraves are an old border family, settled on 
 both sides of the Cheviots. 
 
 103. — Sir Malkin Keene, Sir Malcolm McKean. 
 
 104. — John Lindsay, fifth earl of Crawford, succeeded his 
 father in 1+94. 
 
 105. — William, Lord Graham, became earl of Montrose in 
 •504- 
 
 106. — William, second earl of Caithness, succeeded in 1408. 
 David, Lord Kennedy and earl Cassilis, was a member of James' 
 privy council. 
 
 107. — Arell, William Hay, fifth earl of Errol. Athell, 
 John Stewart, second earl of Athol, succeeded in 1512. Patrick 
 Hepburn, third lord Hales, was created earl of Bothwell in 
 1438. Glenkarr, Cuthbert Cunningham, third earl of Glen- 
 cairn. 
 
 108. — Lovat, Thomas Fraser, the master of Lovat. Clueston, 
 Sir Patrick Houston of Houston. Inderby, Thomas Stewart, 
 lord Innermeath. Ross, Sir John Ross Halkhead. 
 
 109. — Arskill, Robert, lord Erskine, and earl of ]\Iar. 
 
 no. — Sentclear, Henry Sinclair, lord Sinclair. Simpell, 
 Sir John Semple, eighth baron of Eliotstoun, was created lord 
 Semple in 1488. 
 
 1 1 1. — Caddie Hume, Sir Cuthbert Hume of Fastcastle. 
 
 112. — Haburn. — For Hepburn, lord Bothwell, see note 107. 
 
CEATEIT MEN 
 
 Rattle of ^lolriren ^tel^. 
 
 Taken from the Battle Roll at Bolton Ahhey, in the 
 possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. 
 
 Keighley. 
 
 
 John Netherwood, 
 
 John Rawson, bow, able 
 
 -body 
 
 Edward Rawson, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 
 Robert Bottomley, 
 
 Thomas Sowden, 
 
 bille 
 
 Richard Shaw, 
 
 Willian Butterfield, 
 
 bow 
 
 Thomas Stotte, 
 
 Xrofer Ruddyng, 
 
 ») 
 
 Richard Jenkinson, 
 
 John Shaw, 
 
 ,, 
 
 Willian Denby, 
 
 John Brigg, 
 
 bille 
 
 Willian Sugden, 
 
 John Stott, 
 
 bowe 
 
 ohn Clough, 
 
 Thomas Lakok, 
 
 bille 
 
 William Smith, 
 
 John Cockrofte, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Robert Lupton, 
 
 Robert Wright, 
 
 >» 
 
 Ellis Wadsworth, 
 
 Robert Wright, junr. 
 
 jj 
 
 William Roper, 
 
 Willian Hartley, 
 
 >» 
 
 William Farnill, 
 
 Willian Estburn, 
 
 bille 
 
 Robert Stelle, 
 
 Law' Ambler, bow, able-body 
 
 William Jackson, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 
 John Hanson, 
 
 Richd. Try Hyll, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Robert Rawson, 
 
 Robert Hudson, 
 
 
 Edward More, 
 
 John Sugden, 
 
 
 Richard Shackyton 
 
 Richard Sharpe, 
 
 
 James Procter, 
 
 John Widdoppe, 
 
 
 Robert Sugden, 
 
 Ellis Hall, 
 
 
 John Oldfield,' 
 
 John Butterfield, 
 
 bill 
 
 John Weddope, 
 
 Richard Rycroft, 
 
 j» 
 
 Henry Beanlands, 
 
 bill 
 bowe 
 
 bille 
 
 bowe 
 
^56 
 
 Et)e Ballatr of Jlotition Jielli, 
 
 Marion for IMoster's. 
 
 William Marten, a bow, horse, 
 
 and harnish 
 Nickolas Synson, a bowe, 
 
 horse, and harnish 
 Thomas Stockdale, a bille, 
 
 horse, and harnish 
 Robert Stockdale, a bille, 
 
 horse, and harnish 
 John Roberts, a bowe 
 
 Richard Arnald, ,, 
 
 John Tomlynson, able person 
 
 and bille 
 Richard Bulcock, able person 
 
 and bille 
 Robert Rossendale, a bill 
 
 To he hoi's'd and harnish! d 
 at the town's cost. 
 Thos. Midopp, able person, 
 
 horse and harnish'd 
 John Malham, able person, 
 
 horse and harnish'd 
 Xrofer Styrke, able person, 
 
 horse and harnish'd 
 John S\v}cr, junr., able per- 
 son 
 Wm. Robert, able person 
 
 Gersynton. 
 
 John Clerk, a bow, able, horse 
 
 and harnish'd 
 John Wilkinson, a bowe 
 
 George KnoUe, ,, 
 
 Lennard Hibotson, ,, 
 
 Hawkgswyk. 
 
 William Calvard, a bow, able, 
 horse and harnish'd 
 
 Athur Redyman, a bow, able, 
 horse and harnish'd 
 
 Advngham. 
 
 William Wade, able, horse 
 
 and harnish'd 
 Henry Man, a archer 
 
 Richard Cr}'cr, ,, 
 
 Richard Riley, ,, 
 
 Richard Lofthouse, a bille 
 Thomas Stotte, a archer 
 
 Christopher Swyer, ,, 
 
 Thomas Barker, ,, 
 
 John Greene, ,, 
 
 The above hors'd and har- 
 nish'd at the tozvn's cost. 
 
 Arnecliffe. 
 
 able, horse and 
 
 John KnoUi 
 harnish'd 
 Oliver Knolle, 
 
 Robert Tylson 
 
 a bowe 
 a bill 
 
 Flasby. 
 
 William Hessfell'd, a man, 
 
 horse and harnish'd 
 Richard Lister, a bille 
 
 William Blackborne, ,, 
 
 Stephen Proctor, a man, 
 
 hors'd, &c. 
 Rauffe Proctor, a man, hors'd, 
 
 &c. 
 Rodger Proctor, a bill 
 
 Lynnel \Miitfield, ,, 
 
 Robt. Snelle, hors'd and 
 
 harnish'd 
 
 Lyttondale. 
 
 John Knolle, able, horse and 
 
 harnish'd 
 
 Abraham Knolle, bille 
 
 Richard Franklin, bowe 
 Richard Fawcytt, ,, 
 
 John Franklin, ,, 
 
 Jack Tylson, ,, 
 
Efje Ballatr of Jlotition jFteltr. 
 
 157 
 
 Settyll. 
 
 Richard Brown, a bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 William Tayler, a bowe 
 
 Oliver Foster, ,, 
 
 Richard Cokeson, ,, 
 
 William Knolle, ,, 
 
 Adam Brown, a bille 
 
 Rogr. Yveson, a bowe 
 
 Rawlyn Lawson, ,, 
 
 Allen Procter, a bille 
 
 Henry Hoelson, bow 
 Richard Carr, 
 
 Gloseborne. 
 
 William Mayncond, bowe, 
 
 able, horse, &c. 
 Robert Summerscale, bowe 
 
 Langstrothdale . 
 
 Richard Tenant, a bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Geoffery Tenant, a bowe 
 John Tenant, ,, 
 
 Thomas Slinger, a bowe 
 Lenard Jake, ,, 
 
 William Tenant, ,, 
 
 GiGRESWYCK. 
 
 Robert Stakhouse, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 John Webster, a bowe 
 Thos. Palay, 
 
 James Carr, ,, 
 
 Thomas Browne, a bille 
 
 Jack Stackhouse, a bowe 
 
 Stonefokd. 
 
 James Foster, bowe, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Adam Palay, bowe 
 Robert Twistleton, ,, 
 
 Richard Franklyn, ,, 
 
 Richard Chew, ,, 
 
 James Armisted, a bille 
 
 Langclyff. 
 
 Richard Brown, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Rogr. Yveson, a bowe 
 
 Henry Pacock, a bill 
 
 Thorleby. 
 
 Wm. Brochden, bill, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Robert Burgess, a bille 
 
 Thomas Bacock, ,, 
 
 Embsay and Estby. 
 
 Thomas Alcock, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Thomas Croft, a bowe 
 
 William Cate, of Estby, a bille 
 John Pety, do. a bowe 
 
 Halton. 
 
 Robert Burley, a bowe, able, 
 
 horse, &i . 
 Francis Slivers, a bowe 
 
 William West, 
 
 Ceollyng. 
 Pars. Tyllotson, a bow, able 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Xrofer Lakok, a bowe 
 
 Nicoles Starburgh 
 Henry Waller, ,, 
 
 Sutton. 
 
 John Blakay, bow, able, horse, 
 
 &c. 
 John Parkinson 
 
 Steeton. 
 
 Richard Garford, a bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 John Garford, a bowe 
 
 John Parkinson, a bille 
 
 John Whetaker's, a bowe 
 William Smith, ,, 
 
158 
 
 E\}t Ballati of Jlotiticitt Jtelft. 
 
 William Eastburn, a bille 
 Stephen Tyllotson, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Thos, Smyth, junr., bowe 
 
 KiLDWICK. 
 
 Edward Sally, a bowe 
 Robert Bradley „ 
 William Wylson, ,, 
 
 BOLTON-IN-BOLLAND. 
 
 William Stott, bow, able, 
 
 John Garford, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Edward Garford, bowe 
 Richard Herreson, a bille 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Henry Garnett, a bowe 
 Robert Caley, 
 Thomas Pele, bille 
 
 ESHETON. 
 
 Morton Banks. 
 
 Thos. Marton, a bow, able, 
 horse, &c. 
 
 John Rogerson, a bow, able, 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Beamsley. 
 
 John Holmes, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Thos. Frankland, a bowe 
 Richard Shyers, a bill 
 
 Thos. Kendal, bill, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Appletrewyck. 
 
 Henry Young, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 William Wat, a bowe 
 
 William Hog, a bille 
 
 Thomas Preston, a bowe 
 
 Robert Elston, ,, 
 
 Cuthbt. Wynterb'n, a bowe 
 Henry Young, bille & bowe 
 
 Bradley. 
 
 William Smith, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 Thomas, Sl}-s, bowe 
 
 Thomas Greenwood ,, 
 
 Xrist. Smyth ,, 
 
 Farnhyll. 
 
 Henry Currer, bowe, able, 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Richard Holymake, a bowe 
 William Butterfield, 
 
 Rymixgton. 
 
 Henry Burelay, bow, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Henry Arthynton, bowe 
 James Oddy, ,, 
 
 John Ray, ,, 
 
 Helifield axd Newton. 
 
 John Carr, bowe, able, horse, 
 
 &c. 
 John Clark, a bylle 
 
 John Hardaker, a bowe 
 
 Thomas Badsby, ,, 
 
 Carlton. 
 
 Robert Tempest, bowe, able, 
 
 horse, &c. 
 
 Robert Dawtree, bowe 
 
 John Thompson, ,, 
 
 Henry Wallkynson, ,, 
 
 Richard Scarburgth, ,, 
 
 Richard Stapvlton, ,, 
 John Smith, 
 
 William Throp, ,, 
 
 Thomas Midybrok, ,, 
 
 James Smith, ,, 
 
 John Rycroft, ,, 
 
CtjE Ballati of JTlotiton Jiflti. 
 
 159 
 
 Settylle. 
 
 Richard Tenant, bille 
 
 Alan Proctor, ,, 
 
 Edward Lawson, ,, 
 
 Adam Browne, bowe 
 
 Oliver Taleyor, „ 
 Thomas Summerscale, bille 
 
 William Symson, ,, 
 
 Robert Taleyor, „ 
 
 John Watkynson, „ 
 
 William Lawson, „ 
 
 William Carr, ,, 
 
 Robert Midoppe, „ 
 
 Richard Lund, bowe 
 
 Richard Jackson, ,, 
 
 Roger Carr, bowe 
 
 Hugh Carr, ,, 
 
 William Taleyor, „ 
 
 Gyles Cokeson, ,, 
 
 George Hokison, ,, 
 
 John Holson, ,, 
 
 Richard Lawson, ,, 
 
 Lyttondale. 
 
 Adam Langstroth, a bille 
 
 James Knolle, ,, 
 
 Rauffe Knowle, ,, 
 Matthew Knolle, 
 
 William Thorneton, ,, 
 
 Jak Ellison, ,, 
 
 Roger Franklin, bowe 
 
 Robert Stoneford, bille 
 
 Henry Bullok, ,, 
 
 Henry Franklyn, bowe 
 John Walker, „ 
 
 Rodger Tenant, ,, 
 
 Thomas Wederheide, ,, 
 
 Jakob Tenant, bille 
 
 Henry Tylson, bowe 
 
 John Coward, bille 
 
 Arneclyff. 
 
 William Firth, bowe 
 
 Richard Clebenger, bille 
 
 Peter Prass, bille 
 
 John Carlyll, ,, 
 
 Richard Atkinson, bowe 
 
 John Wilson, ,, 
 
 John Atkinson, ,, 
 
 Langstroth. 
 
 Rauffe Tenant, bowe 
 
 James Parker, ,, 
 
 William Langstroth, ,, 
 
 Geffery Walker, ,, 
 
 Thomas Tenant, ,, 
 
 Adam Wilkynson, bille 
 
 John Faldshaw, bowe 
 
 Xrofer Hogg, ,, 
 
 Richard Smyth, ,, 
 
 James Case, ,, 
 
 Xrofer Slyng, bille 
 
 Stoneford. 
 
 Adam Valay bille 
 
 Roger Lawson, „ 
 
 Roger Swaynson, bowe 
 
 Richard Palay, ,, 
 
 James Armested, bille 
 
 John Hokeson, bowe 
 Oliver Armsted, 
 
 Henry Lawkland, ,, 
 
 Willian Foster, bill 
 
 John Yveson, ,, 
 
 Roger Yveson, ,, 
 
 Gygreswyck. 
 
 Richard Brayshay, bowe 
 
 Richard Wilson, ,, 
 
 Robert Burron, bille 
 
 John Brayshay, bowe 
 
 Thomas Tayleyor, „ 
 
 Thomas Preston, ,, 
 
 John Stakhouse, bowe 
 
 Willian Ryley, ,, 
 
 Thomas Armested, ,, 
 
 John Taleyor, ,, 
 
i6o 
 
 EtjE Ballati of JloiBon JteltJ. 
 
 Henry Tayleor, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Helyfeld and Newton. 
 
 Thomas Newhouse 
 
 )) 
 
 
 
 Oliver Stakhouse, 
 
 >) 
 
 Thomas Wray, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Henry Armested, 
 
 ji 
 
 Henry Carr, 
 
 )j 
 
 
 
 William Forte, 
 
 bylle 
 
 Langeclyff. 
 
 
 Thos. Hardaker, 
 
 J 
 
 Robert Kydson, 
 
 bille 
 
 Roger Hardaker, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Richard Kyng, 
 
 >) 
 
 
 
 Robert Kydd, 
 
 »» 
 
 Rymington. 
 
 
 William Yveson, 
 ! John Stakhouse, 
 
 
 Robert Calmley, 
 Robert Tattersall, 
 
 bowe 
 bylle 
 
 Roger Browne, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Richard Hoghton, 
 
 bowe 
 
 \ Morton Banks 
 
 
 Thomas Walar, 
 
 bylle 
 
 1 Willian Rogerson, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Robert Calmley, junr., 
 
 bowe 
 
 < John Fuller, 
 : Willian Leche, 
 ohn Leche, 
 Willian Sharppe, 
 William Adamson, 
 
 bill 
 
 bowe 
 bill 
 
 William Carr, 
 Gyles Lodge, 
 Robert Forte, 
 Christr. Pykhard, 
 Thomas Land, 
 
 bille 
 
 Edmond Dobson, 
 ; Adam Wodde, 
 
 )» 
 
 Roger Land, 
 Robert Dansar, 
 Christr. Hornby, 
 
 bowe 
 
 ( BOLTON-BY-BOLLAND. 
 
 Richard Walar, 
 
 bylle 
 
 Humphrey Pickard, 
 
 bowe 
 
 Carlton. 
 
 
 Thomas Pykhard, 
 
 >) 
 
 
 
 John Wyglesworth, 
 
 ,, 
 
 Richard Scarburgh, 
 
 bowe 
 
 John Garrett, 
 
 bille 
 
 Richard Stapylton, 
 
 
 
 Richard Calmers, 
 
 bowe 
 
 John Smith, 
 
 
 
 Thomas Foot, 
 
 7> 
 
 Willian Thorp, 
 
 
 
 Robert Walbank, 
 
 
 Thomas Midybrok, 
 
 
 
 William Knott, 
 
 bille 
 
 James Smith, 
 
 
 
 Willian Catley, 
 
 bowe 
 
 John Rycroft 
 
 
 
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