That belanged to great Rowley.

That Rowley was the first man that did them spy,

With that he rais’d a mighty cry,

The cry it came down Rookhope-burn,

And spread through Weardale hasteyly.

Then word came to the bailiff’s house

At the East-gate, where he did dwell,

He had walk’d out to the Smale-burns,

Which stands above the Hanging-well.

His wife was wae when she hear’d tell,