Top pop from seventeenth-century England. Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here. See also User’s Guide.

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99 A Monstrous shape./ OR/ A shapelesse Monster [Bodleian Wood 401 (135v-136r)]
100 Luke Huttons Lamentation: which he wrote the day before his death, being/ condemned to be hanged at Yorke for his robberies and trespasses committed/ there-about [Euing 189]
102 Robin Hood newly reviv'd [Bodleian Wood 401 (27v-28r)]
105 The New Courtier [Bodleian Wood E25 (89)]
106 A Strange Banquet;/ OR,/ The Devils Entertainment by Cook Laurel [Pepys 4.284]
108 The Wandring Jews Chronicle [Pepys 1.482-83]
110 The doleful Dance, and Song of Death; Intituled, Dance after my Pipe [Pepys 2.62]
115 The Crafty MISS:/ Or, An Excise man well fitted [Pepys 3.274]
118 BELGICK-BOAR [Crawford 429]

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