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.

Violence - Interpersonal   Houghton Library, Harvard University  

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6 A most sweet Song of an English Merchant,/ borne at Chichester [Roxburghe 1.104-05]
33 The most Rare and Excellent History,/ Of the Dutchess of Suffolks Callamity [Euing 228]
44 The Lamentation of Master Pages wife of Plimmouth, who being enforced by her Parents to wed him against/ her will, did most wickedly consent to his murther [Pepys 1.126-27]
46 A lamentable Ballad of a Combat lately performed neere London,/ betwixt Sir James Steward, and Sir George Wharton  [Euing 195]
49 A constant Wife, a kinde Wife,/ A loving Wife, and a fine Wife [Pepys 1.390-91]
71 The Scotch Lasses Constancy/ OR/ Jenny's Lamentation for the loss of Jockey [Crawford 1217]
78 John ARMSTRONG's Last Good-Night [Pepys 2.133]
82 The two Constant Lovers. Or,/ A patterne of true Love exprest in this loving Dialogue betweene Samuell and Sara [Euing 360]
90 Cupids Courtesie:/ OR,/ The young Gallant foild at his own Weapon [Euing 39]
105 The New Courtier [Bodleian Wood E25 (89)]

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