Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Crime and Punishment Ballads
Home
Singing the News
Browse item sets
Crime and Punishment Ballads
Execution Ballads
Title
Execution Ballads
Description
A collection of ballads about executions.
Items
Created
Resource class
Title
Ascending
Descending
Sort
Advanced search
THE Mournful Murtherer: OR, The last Dying Lamentation of Thomas Randall, who was arraign-ed and found guilty of the Murther of Roger Levins, at Stone-bridge, near Kings-land, for which he received the due Sentence of Death, and was accordingly Executed and Hang'd in Chains at the said Bridge, on the 29th of this Instant January.
Russell's Farewell
THE High-way Mans Advice To his Brethren.
Follow bonny Lad: Or, The High-way Man's Delight
THE Bloody-minded Husband;
Fortune my foe
Sr. Thomas Armstrongs Last Farewell to the VVORLD:
State and Ambition
Sir Walter Rauleigh his lamentation:
Welladay
Sir Thomas Armstrong's Farevvel:
Packington's Pound
Of the endes and deathes of two Prisoners lately pressed to death in Newgate. 1569.
Murther Unparalel'd:
Troy Town
Margaret Bell's Lament
Braes of Strathblane
Luke Huttons Lamentation,
Wandering and wavering
Luke Huttons lamentation:
Wandering and wavering
Life, last words and dying speech of Stephen Smith.
Lamentation of Margaret Bell,
Kevin Barry
Iohn Spenser a Chesshire Gallant,
Slumbring Sleepe, which is also known as Rogero
Execution of the Purfleet murderer at Springfield gaol
Driven From Home
Execution of the Purfleet Murderer
Just before the Battle, Mother
DEVOL's last Farewel:
Chloris, Since Thou Art Fled Away
Damnable Practises Of three Lincolne-shire Witches,
The Ladies fall
CRIMINALS CRUELTY.
Fortune my foe
Constance of Cleveland.
Crimson Velvet
Certayne versis writtene by Thomas Brooke Gentleman
Caveat for Cut-purses.
Packington's Pound
Captain Johnson's Last Farewel to the World,
Russell's Farewell
[...] Being a sad and true Relation of the Apprehension, Tryal, Confession, Condemnation, and Execution of the two barbarous and bloody Murtherers, who basely and unawares killed a worthy Knight of the North Country as he was going down to the Waterside; not giving them the least abuse, for which cruel and inhumane action they were both hanged in Fleet-Street, near White-Fryers, 22 of Octo. 1675.
Bleeding Heart
Showing 326 to 350 of 385 results
Page
of 16