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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72 A Lamentable Ballad of Fair Rosamond, King Henry the Second’s Concubine,/ Who was put to death by Queen Elinor, in Woodstock Bower near Oxford [Pepys 1.498-99]
73 The lamentable fall of Queen Elenor, who for her Pride/ and wickedness by Gods judgements sunk into the ground at Charing=Cross and rose at/ Queen hive [Euing 184]
78 John ARMSTRONG's Last Good-Night [Pepys 2.133]
85 A new Ballad, intituled, The stout Cripple of Cornwal [Euing 242]
92 An Excellent Ballad of the Mercers son of Midhurst, and/ the Clothiers daughter of Guilford [Euing 91 and 12]
93 Ragged, and Torne, and True./ Or, the poore mans Resoltion [Roxburghe 1.352-53]
97 A Turn-Coat of the Times [Pepys 2.210]
99 A Monstrous shape./ OR/ A shapelesse Monster [Bodleian Wood 401 (135v-136r)]
100 Luke Huttons Lamentation: which he wrote the day before his death, being/ condemned to be hanged at Yorke for his robberies and trespasses committed/ there-about [Euing 189]
102 Robin Hood newly reviv'd [Bodleian Wood 401 (27v-28r)]
105 The New Courtier [Bodleian Wood E25 (89)]
106 A Strange Banquet;/ OR,/ The Devils Entertainment by Cook Laurel [Pepys 4.284]
108 The Wandring Jews Chronicle [Pepys 1.482-83]
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]
118 BELGICK-BOAR [Crawford 429]

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