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.

Gosson, Henry   Couper, Victoria   Burn, Emily   Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge University  

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18 An excellent Ballad of a Prince of England's Courtship to the/ King of France’s Daughter, and how the Prince was disasterously slain [Roxburghe 1.102-03]
33 The most Rare and Excellent History,/ Of the Dutchess of Suffolks Callamity [Euing 228]
57 The Shepherd and the King, and of Gillian the Shepherds Wife, with her churlish Answer [Euing 332]
85 A new Ballad, intituled, The stout Cripple of Cornwal [Euing 242]
91 A pleasant new Song, betwixt/ The Saylor and his Love [Pepys 1.422-23]
109 Christ's Tears over JERUSALEM;/ OR,/ [A] Caveat for England to call to God for mercy [Pepys 2.6]

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