Excerpt from Old Ballads, Vol. 2: Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date, Now First Collected and Reprinted From Rare Copies

The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin.

The following piece is the production of Thomas Rowlie, a priest in the 15th century, and is supposed to have been written some time after the event which is the subject of it, and which happened in Bristol, in the year 1461, when Edward IV, and the duke of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III.) were in that city.

The featherde songsterre Chaunticleer
Hanne wounde hys bugle horne,
And tolde the earlie villagers
The commynge of the morne:

Kynge Edward sawe the ruddie streakes
Of lyghte eclypse the greie,
And hearde the ravenn's crokynge throte
Proclayme the fatedd daie.

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