The subject of this ballad is the murder of a Sir John Butler at Bewsey Hall, near Warrington, Lancashire. The person meant died in 14(33, and there is no evidence that he was murdered, though the ballad and a parallel tradition so assert. His wife afterwards married for her third husband Henry Lord Grey of Codnor (cf. st. 25).
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