Notes on the Early Literature of Flodden Field. 521 



Baggily, or Baguleigh, had belonged to the ancient family of 

 Legh for two centuries before the battle of Flodden. 



There is also found in the Folio MS., a version of the Ballad 

 of Flodden Field printed by Weber, and in Vol. iii. of Evans's 

 " Old Ballads." In this version, however, the verses from 422 

 up to 507 " do not appear elsewhere, and are here printed for 

 the first time. They were certainly written after 1544, as they 

 confuse the expedition made that year into France, with the one 

 of 1513." The poem in the Folio MS., concludes thus : — 



" Now god that was in Bethlem borne, 

 & for us dyed upon a tree, 



save our Noble prince that wereth the crowne, 

 & have mercy on the Erles soule of derbye ! " 

 ffins. 



No doubt " princes " should be read ; i.e. most likely Elizabeth. 

 It is presumed that Weber's volume is accessible to the reader, 

 and therefore further reference to its contents is unnecessary ; 

 but in the introduction to " Scotish Ffeilde" is a list of early 

 accounts of the Battle which may be not unacceptable. 



1. A M.S., in the Herald's College, London — "the Gazette of 

 the Battle of Flodden, Sept. 1513 " printed in Pinkerton, 

 Vol. II., p. 456. 



2. The account given by Hall. 



3. A contemporary report in Jovius' " Historise sui Temporis." 



4. A letter from Dr. William Knight, the English minister at 

 the Court of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, to Cardinal Bain- 

 bridge at Home ; printed by Ellis in his " Original Letters." 



5. The pamphlet re-printed by Haslewood. 



6. A Document among the State Papers, corresponding almost 

 exactly to the Gazette, entitled " Articles of the Bataill betwix 

 the Kinge of Scottes and therle of Surrey in Brankstone Feld, 

 the 9 day of September." 



The following is from W. Carew Hazlitt's Handbook : s.v. 

 Flodden Field, La Eotta de Scocesi. [This title over a cut of the 

 Eoyal Arms of England.] No printer's name or date, 4to. A 

 poem in ottava rima. 



Bright, 1845, in lot 2000. This tract was reprinted by Earl 

 Spencer from Mr Bright's copy, for the Eoxburghe Club. 



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