Printed by Percy, 'from an old black-letter copy; with some conjectural emendations.' At the suggestion of my friend, the Rev. Mr. Hunt, I have restored the original readings, as in truer consonancy with the vainglorious, insolent, and swaggering ballad spirit. As for the hero, Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby of Eresby, described as 'one of the Queen's best swordsmen' and 'a great master of the art military,' he succeeded Leicester in the command in the Low Countries in 1587, distinguished himself repeatedly in fight with the Spaniards, and died in 1601. 'Both Norris and Turner were famous among the military men of that age' (Percy). In the Roxburgh Ballads the full title of the broadside--which is 'printed for S. Coles in Vine St., near Hatton Garden,'--is as follows:--'_A true relation of a famous and bloudy Battell fought in Flanders by the noble and valiant Lord Willoughby with 1500 English against 40,000 Spaniards, wherein the English obtained a notable victory for the glory and renown of our nation._ Tune: _Lord Willoughby_.' XXVIII First printed by Tom D'Urfey, _Wit and Mirth, etc._ (1720), vi. 289-91; revised by Robert Burns for _The Scots Musical Magazine_, and again by Allan Cunningham for _The Songs of Scotland_; given with many differences, 'long current in Selkirkshire,' in the _Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_. The present version is a _rifaccimento_ from Burns and Scott. It is worth noting that GrÊme (pronounced 'Grime'), and Graham are both forms of one name, which name was originally Grimm, and that, according to some, the latter orthography is the privilege of the chief of the clan. XXIX First printed in the _Minstrelsy_. This time the 'history' is authentic enough. It happened early in 1596, when Salkeld, the Deputy Warden of the Western Marches, seized under truce the person of William Armstrong of Kinmont--elsewhere described as 'Will Kinmonde the common thieffe'--and haled him to Carlisle Castle, whence he was rescued--'with shouting and crying and sound of trumpet'--by the Laird of Buccleuch, Keeper of Liddesdale, and a troop of two hundred horse. 'The Queen of England,' says Spottiswoode, 'having notice sent her of what was done, stormed not a little'; but see the excellent summary compiled by Scott (who confesses to having touched up the ballad) for the _Minstrelsy_.