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.

Religion - Sin/repentance   Kirkpatrick, John  

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6 A most sweet Song of an English Merchant,/ borne at Chichester [Roxburghe 1.104-05]
35 The Judgement of God shewed upon one John Faustus/ Doctor in Divinity [Euing 145]
44 The Lamentation of Master Pages wife of Plimmouth, who being enforced by her Parents to wed him against/ her will, did most wickedly consent to his murther [Pepys 1.126-27]
52 England New Bell-man:/ Ringing into all peoples ears Gods dreadful/ Judgements against this Land and Kingdom [Bodleian Wood 401 (159v-160r)]
88 An excellent song, wherein you shall find,/ Great consolation for a troubled mind [Pepys 2.63]

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