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The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire

Note 132 — THE RISING IN THE NORTH.

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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.

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