[131] Henry Carey, (s. and h. of William Carey, by Mary, daughter of Thomas, earl of Wiltshire, sister of queen Anne Boleyn, mother of queen Elizabeth,) created baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, co. Herts, 13 Jan. 1558-9, K. G; ob. 1597, and was succeeded by his s. and h. George, K. G.
[132] Two only appear to have suffered death, according to a rare tract of seven leaves, in verse, by Sampson Davie, entitled, "The several Confessions of Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton, two of the Northern Rebels, who suffered at Tyburn, and were drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason May 27 (1570). Imprinted by William How for Richard Jones." See Notes and Queries, 2nd S. vol. viii. 388; Strype's Annals, vol. ii. part i. pp. 577-8; and Wordsworth's White Doe of Rylstone.
[133] From a broadside (black letter) in the Roxburgh collection in the British Museum. It is a favourite chap-book history.
[134] Christopher Maltby, draper, Lord Mayor in 1583.
[135] Thomas Appleyard, Lord Mayor in 1584.
[136] In the south aisle of the nave of Beverley Minster is an altar tomb, covered with a slab of Purbeck marble, placed under a groined canopy, adorned with pinnacles, and surmounted with figures, without inscription or indeed anything to lead to a knowledge of its occupant. Tradition assigns it to two maiden sisters (daughters of earl Puch, of Bishop Burton, and in whose household St. John of Beverley is said, on the authority of Bede, to have effected a miraculous cure) who are said to have given two of the common pastures to the freemen of Beverley.—Poulson's Beverlac, 704.
[137] Exhibited in the Pantomime which was performed Covent Garden in the year 1770.
[138] To Edward Hailstone, esq., F. S. A., F. G. S., &c. of Horton hall, Bradford, I am greatly indebted for the above, and also for the following broadsides, from his valuable collection of Yorkshire lore:—The Sheffield 'Prentice, The Great Exhibition, Bill Brown, The Funny Wedding, The Crafty Plough Boy, Miss Bailey's Ghost, The Yorkshire Lad in London, Spencer Broughton, and The Bonny Scotch Lad.
[139] "The editor is indebted for a copy of the above ballad to the obliging kindness of Dr. Rooke, of Scarborough." Yorkshire Anthology, by James O. Halliwell, esq., F. R. S., F. S. A. Printed for private circulation only. London, 1851. To which work I am much indebted.
[140] Mr. Halliwell's copy reads, "Kingston upon Woolwich, a town in Yorkshire." The above copy is from Mr. Hailstone's collection, and reads throughout more correctly.