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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107 A good Wife, or none [Roxburghe 1.140-41]
113 A New little Northren Song called,/ Under and over, over and under [Pepys 1.264-65]
115 The Crafty MISS:/ Or, An Excise man well fitted [Pepys 3.274]
116 Love and Honour: Or,/ The Lovers Farewel to Calista [Roxburghe 2.306]
118 BELGICK-BOAR [Crawford 429]
119 A Voyage to Virginia;/ OR,/ The Valiant Soldiers Fare-well to his Love [Bodleian Douce 2 (236b)]
120 The Happy Husbandman:/ OR,/ Country Innocence [Pepys 3.45]

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