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   Passinger, Thomas   Burn, Emily   Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge University  

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33 The most Rare and Excellent History,/ Of the Dutchess of Suffolks Callamity [Euing 228]
109 Christ's Tears over JERUSALEM;/ OR,/ [A] Caveat for England to call to God for mercy [Pepys 2.6]