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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15 The Lamentable and Tragicall History of Titus An-/dronicus [Folger L252a]
31 The SUCCESS of/ Two English Travellers;/ Newly Arrived in London [Pepys 2.232]
32 The Seamans Song of Captain Ward the famous Pyrate of the world, and an/ English man born [Euing 327]
46 A lamentable Ballad of a Combat lately performed neere London,/ betwixt Sir James Steward, and Sir George Wharton  [Euing 195]
71 The Scotch Lasses Constancy/ OR/ Jenny's Lamentation for the loss of Jockey [Crawford 1217]
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]
76 Saint Georges commendation to all Souldiers [Pepys 1.87]
102 Robin Hood newly reviv'd [Bodleian Wood 401 (27v-28r)]
105 The New Courtier [Bodleian Wood E25 (89)]
108 The Wandring Jews Chronicle [Pepys 1.482-83]
111 The Famous Fight at Malago,/ Or, The Englishmen's Victory over the Spaniards [Pepys 4.204]
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]

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