Northumberland Betrayed By Douglas (also Northumberland Betrayed by Dowglas) is an English-language folk song, catalogued as Child ballad 176 and Roud Folk Song Index number 4006. It tells of the Seventh Earl of Northumberland fleeing to Scotland.
Synopsis The Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Percy, escapes to Scotland and is taken into custody.Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets, chiefly of the lyric kind. Together with some few of later date, Volume 1, page 257 Retrieved June 13, 2012 Despite his protestations of virtue, he is passed from hand to hand, ending in the custody of Douglas. Earl Percy sets sail, with the mindset that he will be freed, but instead ends up under the control of Lord Hunsden.'Northumberland betrayd by Dowglas,' Percy Manuscript, p. 259; Hales and Furnivall, II, 217
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