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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114 The Woman to the PLOW;/ And the Man to the HEN-ROOST [Euing 397]
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]
117 The Protestant Court of England:/ OR, THE/ Joyful Coronation of K. William III. and Q. Mary II [Pepys 2.275]
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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