This poem celebrates a victory by Surrey over Kent. It proclaims itself to be a parody on the Ballard of Chevy Chase – this was about a battle fought in the borderlands between the forces of Northumberland’s Earl Percy and Scotland’s Earl Douglas. In the song, Earl Percy is the instigator, hunting in Scottish territory, the woods of Chevy Chase.
The victory was later reversed and replied to by another poem called The Kentish Cricketers