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.

Gilbertson, William   Employment - Sailors/soldiers   Bodies - Health/sickness   Lewin, Giles   Watts, Andy  

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1 A proper new Ballad, intituled, The wandring Prince of Troy [Pepys 1.84-85]
15 The Lamentable and Tragicall History of Titus An-/dronicus [Folger L252a]
27 A Pleasant Song of the Valiant Deeds of Chivalry,/ Atchieved by that Noble Knight Sir Guy of Warwick [Roxburghe 3.50-1]
38 A worthy example of a vertuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk [Roxburghe 3.48-49]
76 Saint Georges commendation to all Souldiers [Pepys 1.87]
91 A pleasant new Song, betwixt/ The Saylor and his Love [Pepys 1.422-23]
101 Saint Bernards Vision./ OR,/ A briefe Discourse (Dialogue-wise) betweene the Soule and the Body of a dam/ned man newly deceased [Roxburghe 1.376-77]

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