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.

Politics - Royalist  

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5 The Ballad of the CLOAK:/ Or, The Cloaks Knavery [Pepys 2.218]
11 THE/ Rare Vertue of an Orange;/ Or, Popery purged and expelled out of the Nation [Pepys 2.259]
12 The True LOYALIST/; OR,/ The Obedient SUBJECT,/ A Loyal SONG [Pepys 2.223]
16 The Lamenting Ladies last farewel to the/ WORLD [Euing 183]
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]
47 THE/ Lord RUSSELS/ Last Farewel to the World [Huntington HEH 18016]
51 The Loyal English Man's WISH/ For the Preservation of/ The King and Queen [Pepys 5.63]
57 The Shepherd and the King, and of Gillian the Shepherds Wife, with her churlish Answer [Euing 332]
62 The Honour of a London Prentice [Pepys 3.252]
79 Win at first, lose at last; or, a New Game at Cards [Bodleian Wood 401 (149v-150r)]
87 New Mad Tom of Bedlam / OR,/ The Man in the Moon drinks Clarret [Pepys 1.502-03]
108 The Wandring Jews Chronicle [Pepys 1.482-83]
112 Rebellion given over House-keeping:/ OR,/ A General Sale of Rebellious Houshould stuff [Pepys 2.209]
116 Love and Honour: Or,/ The Lovers Farewel to Calista [Roxburghe 2.306]
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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