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.

Brooksby, Philip  

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5 The Ballad of the CLOAK:/ Or, The Cloaks Knavery [Pepys 2.218]
23 The Countrey FARMER:/ OR, THE/ Buxome VIRGIN [Roxburghe 2.77]
26 The Whig Rampant:/OR, EXALTATION [Euing 389]
30 The Delights of the Bottle;/ OR,/ The Town-Gallants Declaration for Women and Wine [Euing 71]
31 The SUCCESS of/ Two English Travellers;/ Newly Arrived in London [Pepys 2.232]
56 A CARROUSE/ TO THE/ Emperour, the Royal Pole,/ And the much-wrong'd DUKE of LORRAIN [Roxburghe 4.2]
71 The Scotch Lasses Constancy/ OR/ Jenny's Lamentation for the loss of Jockey [Crawford 1217]
75 An Excellent New SONG,/ OF THE/ Two Happy LOVERS [Pepys 5.184]
96 Young Jemmy,/ OR,/ The Princely Shepherd [Roxburghe 2.556]
116 Love and Honour: Or,/ The Lovers Farewel to Calista [Roxburghe 2.306]
120 The Happy Husbandman:/ OR,/ Country Innocence [Pepys 3.45]

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