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]
17 The Merchants Daughter of Bristow [Euing 210]
50 A New Song of Lulla By,/ OR, Father Peter's Policy Discovered [Bodleian Wood E25 (110)]
74 Ann Askew, intituled, I am a Woman Poor and Blind [Pepys 2.24-25]
89 Private Occurrences,/ OR,/ The Transactions of the four Last Years [Pepys 4.317v]
117 The Protestant Court of England:/ OR, THE/ Joyful Coronation of K. William III. and Q. Mary II [Pepys 2.275]

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