[87] These executions were also commemorated by Thomas Deloney, in a ballad edited by Mr. J. P. Collier, for the Percy Society, in 1840.—Old Ballads, p. 104.
The lines on Babington are—
Next Babington, that caitife vilde,
Was hanged for his hier;
His carcase likewise quartered,
And hart cast in the fire.
And of those executed on the 21st, he makes Donne and Jones both complain of Babington.
The first of them was Salsburie,
And next to him was Dun,
Who did complaine most earnestly
Of proud yong Babington.
Both Lords and Knights of hye renowne
He meant for to displace,
And likewise all the towers and townes
And cities for to raze:
So likewise Jones did much complaine
Of his detested pride,
And shewed how lewdly he did live
Before the time he died.
Richard Jones had been licensed on 27th August, to print a Ballad authorised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, "beinge a joyfull songe made by a citizen of London in the behalfe of Her Maties subjectes touchinge the Joye for the taking of the Traytors." Registers of the Stationers' Company, vol. II., p. 214; but no copy is known to be extant.
[88] A great impediment to the man[oe]uv'ring of the Militia, about 15 years ago.
[89] This tune is the same as "The Barking Barber" and "Date obolum Belisario."