Her grace she turned her round about, 125 And like a royall queene shee swore, "I will ordayne them such a breakfast, As never was in the North before." Shee caus'd thirty thousand men be rays'd, With horse and harneis faire to see; 130 She caused thirty thousand men be raised, To take the earles i' th' North countrie. Wi' them the false Erle Warwick went, Th' Erle Sussex and the Lord Hunsden; Untill they to Yorke castle came, I-wiss they never stint ne blan. 135 Now spred thy ancyent, Westmorland, Thy dun bull faine would we spye: And thou, the Erle o' Northumberland, Now rayse thy half moone up on hye. 140 But the dun bulle is fled and gone, And the halfe moone vanished away: The erles, though they were brave and bold, Against soe many could not stay. Thee, Norton, wi' thine eight good sonnes, 145 They doom'd to dye, alas for ruth! Thy reverend lockes thee could not save, Nor them their faire and blooming youthe. Wi' them full many a gallant wight They cruellye bereav'd of life: 150 And many a childe made fatherlesse, And widowed many a tender wife. 65. The Act of Attainder, 13th Elizabeth, only mentions Richard Norton, the father, and _seven_ sons, and in "a list of the rebels in the late Northern rebellion that are fled beyond seas," the same seven sons are named. Richard Norton, the father, was living long after the rebellion in Spanish Flanders. See Sharp's _Bishoprick Garland_, p. 10. 102. The supporters of the Nevilles Earls of Westmoreland were two bulls argent, ducally collar'd gold, armed or, &c. But I have not discovered the device mentioned in the ballad, among the badges, &c., given by that house. This however is certain, that, among those of the Nevilles, Lord Abergavenny (who were of the same family), is a dun cow with a golden collar; and the Nevilles of Chyte in Yorkshire (of the Westmoreland branch), gave for their crest, in 1513, a dog's (greyhound's) head erased.--So that it is not improbable but Charles Neville, the unhappy Earl of Westmoreland here mentioned, might on this occasion give the above device on his banner.--After all, our old minstrel's verses here may have undergone some corruption; for, in another ballad in the same folio MS., and apparently written by the same hand, containing the sequel of this Lord Westmoreland's history, his banner is thus described, more conformable to his known bearings: "_Sett me up my faire Dun Bull, With Gilden Hornes, hee beares all soe hye_."--P. 106. The Silver Crescent is a well-known crest or badge of the Northumberland family. It was probably brought home from some of the crusades against the Sarazens.--P. NORTHUMBERLAND BETRAYED BY DOUGLAS.