The Roxburghe ballads . muel Butler. They wereanonymous; some assumed to be Printed at the Hague (p. 650). The Gang of Kine Heroes who, in scorn of a parliamentforlorn, walkdout with sword in fist, as chronicled in the ensuingballad, and stigmatised as officers in the faction of Sir JohnLambert, belonging to the Committee of Safety, had been bythe returned Bump deprived of their commissions. They arenamed here, derisively, but the list differs slightly from whatis given in contemporary pamphlets, wherein we find RichardAshfield, instead of Colonel Robert Duckenfield (who had joinedwith Lambert
The Roxburghe ballads . muel Butler. They wereanonymous; some assumed to be Printed at the Hague (p. 650). The Gang of Kine Heroes who, in scorn of a parliamentforlorn, walkdout with sword in fist, as chronicled in the ensuingballad, and stigmatised as officers in the faction of Sir JohnLambert, belonging to the Committee of Safety, had been bythe returned Bump deprived of their commissions. They arenamed here, derisively, but the list differs slightly from whatis given in contemporary pamphlets, wherein we find RichardAshfield, instead of Colonel Robert Duckenfield (who had joinedwith Lambert in suppressing the Chester Rising of Sir GeorgeBooth in 1659); and Major General James Berry (who slew GeneralCavendish, and was at Preston fight), instead of Lord JohnHewson, the cobler Colonel. Major-General John Desborough hadbeen appointed by Richard Cromwell as his Chancellor of Ireland ;after the Restoration he was tried for having sat on the court-martial that condemned to death the Earl of Derby, James VOL. VII. £ U 658 [Roxburghe Collection, III. 512 ; Thomason Collection, 699, vol. xxii.] ©r, Cfie Bim moitbm anD C&ions, Lambert, etc. To the Tune of, Robin Hood {Revived. See p. 647 ; Note.~\ IT was at the Birth of a Winters morn,With a Hey down, doivn, a down, down,That Nine Heroes, in scorn of a Parliament forlorn,Walkd out with Sword in the Crow had [w]ist, [minxit. Johnne Lambert was first, a dapper Squire. With a Hey, etc. A mickler man of mightWas nere in Yorkshire; and he did conspire With Vane, Sir Harry, a Knight. Desboroio next, a goodlier swain (With a Hey down, etc.) An Easter Sun nere see ; [ John Desiorough. He drove on amain, without any brain,Such a jolt-head knave was he. Kelsey was a brave button-maker (With, etc.), [Col. Thom. k. As ever set mould upon scewer ;And this Wise-aker was a great pains-taker, T make Lamberts Nose look blewer. The Devout and Holy Major Creed, ( With, etc.) imchmrd Creed. (I know nt of wha
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