"A booke called Jack of Newberry" was entered to Thomas Milhngton, March 7, 15U7 (Arber, Stationers' Registers, in, 81). The edition of 1633, the earliest which Mr. HalliwellPhillipps had met with, was the ninth, published by Cuthbert Wright. The author has introduced several pieces of verse into his tale, two of them popular ballads, 'The Fair Flower of Northumberland' and this of Flodden, of which Deloney says, "in disgrace of the Scots, and in remembrance of the famous atchieved historie, the commons of England made this song, which to this day is not forgotten of manv" (p. 47). The Field of Flodden was fought September 9, 1513. For other pieces (not ballads) on Flodden, see Percy Manuscript, Hales and Furnivall. i, 199 ff., 313 ff .; Robson, Chetham Miscellanies, 1855; The Battle of Flodden Field, edited by Henry Weber, 1808; Child, in, 353 ff.
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