Note 87 — THE Complainte of Anthonie Babington.
Reading edition
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.