English Execution Ballads

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  The declaration & confession of Matthew Cushing
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  The complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feversham in Kent,

  Fortune my Foe
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  The Clippers execution,

  In summer time
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  The Chancellors Resolution:

  Lilli borlero
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  THE Chamberlain's Tragedy:

  Bleeding Heart
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  The Bully WHIG:

  Ah! Cruel Bloody Fate!
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  The Brick-makers Lamentation from New-gate:

  Packington's Pound
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  The Bloody=minded Husband;

  Russell's Farewell
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  THE Bloody-minded Husband;

  Fortune my foe
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  The Bloody Murtherer:

  Fortune my Foe
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  The Bloody Butcher, And the two wicked and cruel Bawds:

  Bleeding heart
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  The BERKSHIRE Tragedy,
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  The Ballad of Roger Casement
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  The Ballad of Roddy McCorley

  The melody for Roddy McCorley was later used in the song, Sean South from Garryowen, which tells the story of a failed IRA attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary Barracks in County Fermanagh in 1957.
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  The Arrainement condemnation and execution of the grand [cutpurse] Iohn Selman

  The Rich Merchant Man
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  The Araignement of John Flodder and his wife,

  Fortune my foe
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  Summers his Frolick.

  Russell's Farewell
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  Sr. Thomas Armstrongs Last Farewell to the VVORLD:

  State and Ambition
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  Some Luck Some Wit

  The German Princess adieu
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  Sir Walter Rauleigh his lamentation:

  Welladay
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  Sir Thomas Armstrong's Farevvel:

  Packington's Pound
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  Sir Hugh in the Grimes Downfall.
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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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  Rebellion Rewarded with Justice. OR, The Last farewell of the late Duke of Monmouth which was Beheaded on Tower-Hill on the 15th of this Instant July 1685. It is not well for to Rebell, Against a Gracious Prince, Let all beware and shun the Snare, That would be Men of Sence.

  Russell's Farewell
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  Perjury Punish'd with equal Justice;

  No Ignoramus Juries now