Lady Jane of Westmoreland

I think your correspondent Q.D. is wrong in his supposition that the two following entries in Mr. Collier's second volume of *Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company* refer to a composition by Lady Jane of Westmoreland:— "1585-6. Cold and uncoth blowes, of the Lady Jane of Westmorland. 1586-7. A songe of Lady Jane of Westmorland." My idea is, that the ballad (for Mr. Collier thinks that both entries relate to one production) was merely one of those metrical ditties sung about the streets of London depicting the woes and sufferings of some unfortunate lady. The question is, who w…