English Execution Ballads

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  THE Unfortunate WELCH-MAN; OR The Untimely Death of Scotch JOCKEY

  The Country Farmer
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  THE Chamberlain's Tragedy:

  Bleeding Heart
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  Summers his Frolick.

  Russell's Farewell
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  Save a thief from the Gallows, and he'l Hang thee if he can,

  Fortune my foe
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  Perjury Punish'd with equal Justice;

  No Ignoramus Juries now
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  Francis Winter's last Farewel:

  Russell's Farewell
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  A Warning to Murtherers:

  Troy Town
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  A warning for wiues,

  Bragandary
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  A warning for all desperate VVomen.

  The Ladies Fall
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  A New Ballad of Three Merry Butchers AND Ten High-Way Men, how three Butchers went to pay Five Hundred Pounds away, and hearing a Woman crying in a Wood, went to relieve her, and was there set upon by these Ten High-Way Men, and how only stout Johnson fought with them all, who kill'd Eight of the Ten, and last was kill'd by the Woman whom he went to save out of the Wood.
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  Treason Rewarded at TIBURN: Or, The TRAITORS Downfal.

  Digby's Farewel
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  The YARMOUTH Tragedy; OR, The CONSTANT LOVERS.
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  The wofull lamentation of Edward Smith, a poore penitent prisoner in the Jayle of Bedford, which he wrote a short time before his death.

  Dainty come thou to me
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  The unnaturall Wife: Or, The lamentable Murther, of one goodman Dauis, LockeSmith in Tutle-streete, who was stabbed to death by his Wife, on the 29. of Iune, 1628. For which fact, She was Araigned, Condemned, and Adiudged. to be Burnt to Death in Smithfield, the 12. Iuly 1628.

  Bragandary
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  The traytors last farewell: or, Treason miraculously discover'd.

  Let Oliver now be forgotten
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  The sorrowful complaint of Susan Higges, a lusty Countrey Wench, dwelling in Risborrow in Buckinghamshire, who for twenty yeeres, most gallantly maintained her selfe by Robberies on the high-way side, and such like practises. And lastly, how she was executed at Brickhill, at the Assises, for a murther by her committed upon Messeldon Heath.

  Lusty Gallant
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  The sad effects of Covetousness. Being, a Relation of a Horrid Murther, commited upon a Maid Servant, in the Town of Lyn; by her Mistriss and her Son, for the Lucre of what she had: But they being apprehended for the same, was accordingly found Guilty, and was also Executed.

  The Young-Mans Legacy
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  The pope in his fury doth answer returne, To a letter ye which to Rome is late come

  Row Well Ye Marriners
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  THE Plotter Executed: OR, The Examination, Tryal, Condem-nation, and Execution, of Edward Coleman Esquire. Who was Convicted of High Treason, the 27th. day of November, at the King-Bench-Barr at West-minster, for Plotting against the Life of his most Sacred Majesty, and for Endeavouring to subvert the Government, and the true Protestant Religion Establisht: he received Sentence the 28th. day of November 1678. to be Drawn Hangd, and Quartered, and was Executed at Tyburn the 3d. of December: With his Last Speech and Confession, made by him at the place of Execution.

  Captain Digby
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  The murtherer justly condemned, or, An account of George Feast, a butcher of Shoreditch, being found guilty ... for the barbarous bloody murther of his wife ... also some account of his penitent behaviour in Newgate. To the tune of, Packingtons pound.

  Packington's Pound
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  The Merites of PIRACIE

  My Virgins Treasure
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  The Matchless murder

  Troy Town
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  The life and death of M. Geo: Sands,

  Flying Fame
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  The Life and Death of George of OXFORD

  Poor Georgy
• The last speech and dying words of John Ormsby