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 - Obedience  

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4 A lamentable Dittie composed upon the death of/ Robert Lord Devereux late Earle of Essex, who was beheaded in the/ Tower of London, upon Ashwednesday in the morning [Huntington Britwell 18290]
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]
42 An Excellent Ballad of Patient Grissel [Euing 85]
57 The Shepherd and the King, and of Gillian the Shepherds Wife, with her churlish Answer [Euing 332]
74 Ann Askew, intituled, I am a Woman Poor and Blind [Pepys 2.24-25]
96 Young Jemmy,/ OR,/ The Princely Shepherd [Roxburghe 2.556]
118 BELGICK-BOAR [Crawford 429]
120 The Happy Husbandman:/ OR,/ Country Innocence [Pepys 3.45]

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