The uttermost walles were lime and bricke; But thoughe they won them soon anone, Long e'er they wan the innermost walles, For they were cut in rocke of stone. Then newes unto leeve[126] London came In all the speede that ever might bee, And word is brought to our royall queene Of the rysing in the north countrie. Her grace she turned her round about, And like a royall queene she swore,[127] I will ordayne them such a breakfast, As never was in the north before. Shee caus'd thirty thousand men berays'd, With horse and harneis[128] faire to see; Shee caus'd thirty thousand men berays'd To take the earles i' th' north countrie. Wi' them the false earle Warwick[129] went, Th' earle Sussex[130] and the lord Hunsdon;[131] Untill they to Yorke castle came I wis, they never stint ne blan. "Now spred thy ancyent, Westmoreland, Thy Dun Bull faine would we spye; And thou, the earle o' Northumberland, Now rayse thy Halfe-Moone up on hye." But the Dun Bull is fled and gone, And the Halfe-Moone vanished away: The earles, though they were brave and bold, Against soe many could not stay. "Thee, Norton, wi' thine eight good sonnes, Thy donn'd to dye, alas! for ruth![132] 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: And many a childe made fatherlesse, And widowed many a tender wife. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 111: Thomas Percy, seventh earl of Northumberland, K. G; after the failing of this insurrection he fled into Scotland, but was betrayed by the earl of Moreton, viceroy of Scotland, and lord Hunsdon, governor of Berwick. He was brought to York, and beheaded on a scaffold, erected for the purpose, in the Pavement, near St. Crux church, 22nd August, 1572; in which church his body was buried, and his head placed over Micklegate bar, where it remained about two years.] [Footnote 112: Anne, daughter of Henry Somerset, earl of Worcester.] [Footnote 113: Surety.] [Footnote 114: Rather.] [Footnote 115: Richard Norton, esq., of Norton Conyers, co. York, mar. Susan, daughter of Richard Nevill, lord Latimer, by whom he had nine sons, all of man's estate, and all engaged in the rebellion, though only seven occur in the list of attainders. Old Norton escaped along with some of his sons over seas, where he died. In the Lansdowne MSS. is a paper addressed to Lord Burleigh, containing a pedigree of the families of Morton of Bawtry (Nicholas Morton, priest, being engaged in this rebellion) and Norton of Norton Conyers, interspersed with strange personal reflections on almost every individual of the two families, and endorsed, "A trybe of wicked people."] [Footnote 116: Lingered.] [Footnote 117: Christopher and Marmaduke are mentioned as prisoners in Sadler, II. 136, and the former appears to have been executed.]