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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17 The Merchants Daughter of Bristow [Euing 210]
25 A most notable example of an ungracious Son, who/ in the pride of his heart denyed his own Father [Roxburghe 1.226-27]
35 The Judgement of God shewed upon one John Faustus/ Doctor in Divinity [Euing 145]
41 The Woful Lamentation of Mistris Jane Shore, a Goldsmiths Wife/ in London, sometime King Edward the Fourth's Concubine [Euing 394]
50 A New Song of Lulla By,/ OR, Father Peter's Policy Discovered [Bodleian Wood E25 (110)]
62 The Honour of a London Prentice [Pepys 3.252]
66 Advice to the Ladies of/ LONDON, In the Choice of their Husbands [Pepys 4.85]
81 Prides fall: Or, A warning for all English Women./ By the Example of a strange Monster born of late in Germany [Euing 269]
85 A new Ballad, intituled, The stout Cripple of Cornwal [Euing 242]
104 The Careless Gallant: Or, A farewel to Sorrow [Pepys 4.241]
106 A Strange Banquet;/ OR,/ The Devils Entertainment by Cook Laurel [Pepys 4.284]
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]

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