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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3 The Catholick Ballad:/ OR AN/ INVITATION/ TO/ POPERY [Euing 24]
5 The Ballad of the CLOAK:/ Or, The Cloaks Knavery [Pepys 2.218]
33 The most Rare and Excellent History,/ Of the Dutchess of Suffolks Callamity [Euing 228]
39 An Hundred Godly Lessons,/ That a Mother on her Death-Bed gave to her Children [Pepys 2.16-17]
74 Ann Askew, intituled, I am a Woman Poor and Blind [Pepys 2.24-25]
83 The dying tears of a true Lover forsaken,/ Made on his Death=bed [Euing 64]
89 Private Occurrences,/ OR,/ The Transactions of the four Last Years [Pepys 4.317v]
111 The Famous Fight at Malago,/ Or, The Englishmen's Victory over the Spaniards [Pepys 4.204]

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