English Execution Ballads

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  A newe balade made by Nicholas Balthorp which suffered in Calys the .xv. daie of marche. MDL.
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  A new song on the Mannings

  The Wife's Dream
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  A New made MEDLY Compos'd out of sundry SONGS, For Sport and Pastime for the most ingenious Lovers of Wit and Mirth.

  State and Ambition
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  A New BALLAD. The Triumph of Justice. Being the Last SPEECH and CONFESSION of Nine Malefactors, and Betrayers of the Lives and Liberties of the Good People of ENGLAND. But few Examples here are made Of such as have our Laws betray'd: The rest that have as ill Deserv'd For the next Sessions are Reserv'd.

  Packington's Pound
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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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  A new Ballad intituled, the stout Cripple of Cornwall, wherein is shewed his dissolute life and deserved death.

  The blind beggar
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  A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing
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  A most ioyfull Songe, made in the behalfe of all her Maiesties faithfull and louing Subiects: of the great ioy, which was made in London. at the taking of the late trayterous Conspirators, which sought oportunity to kyll her Maiesty, to spoyle the Cittie, and by forraigne inuasion to ouerrun the Realme: for the which haynous Treasons, fourteen of them haue suffred death on the 20. &, 21. of Sept. Also, a detestation against those Conspira|tors, and all their Confederates, giuing God the prayse for the safe preseruation of her maiesty, and their subuersion. Anno. Domini. 1586.

  O man in desperation
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  A Mirror of mans lyfe made by a modest virgine Fransisca Chauesia a Nonne of the cloyster of S. Elizabeth in Spaine burned for the profession of the gospell.
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  A looking-glass for vvanton Women by the example and expiation of Mary Higgs who was executed on Wednesday the 18th of July 1677 for committing the odious sin of burgery with her dog who was hanged on a tree the same day neer the place of execution shewing her penitent behaviour and last speech at the gallows, tune of In summer time.

  In Summer Time
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  A Looking-Glass for Traytors, or, High Treason Rewarded. Being a full Account of the Examination of the Second Person that was Executed in Novem. 1678. by name, Edward Coleman, Esq; who was found guilty of high Treason, at the Kings-Bench-Bar at VVestminter, the 27th of Nov. 1678. for Plotting and contriving the Death of our Soveraign Lord the King, and endeavouring to change the Government of the Nation and utterly to extirpate the Protestant Religion. For which he was sentenced to be Drawn, Hang'd and Quartered: Being accordingly Executed the 3d. day of this instant Decemb. at Tyburn.

  Aim not too high
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  A letter to Rome, to declare to ye Pope, Iohn Felton his freend is hangd in a rope: And farther, a right his grace to enforme, He dyed a Papist, and seemd not to turne.

  Row Well Ye Marriners
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  A lamentable new Ballad upon the Earle of Essex his death.

  The Kings last good-night
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  A Lamentable Ditty made on the Death of Robert Deverux Earl of Essex, who was Beheaded in the Tower of London, on Ash-Wednesday, 1603.

  Welladay
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  A Lamentable Ballad on the Earl of Essex Death

  Essex' Last Good-night
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  A few Lines Upon the awful EXECUTION of John Ormesby & Matth. Cushing, October 17th. 1734. One for Murder, the other for Burglary.
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  A discription of Nortons falcehod Of Yorke shyre, and of his fatall farewel. The fatal fine of Traitours loe: By Iustice due, deseruyng soe.
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  A declaration of the death of Iohn Lewes, a most detestable and obstinate Hereticke, burned at Norwich, the xviii, daye of September. I583. About three of the clocke in the after noone.

  John Careless
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  A cruell murther committed lately upon the body of Abraham Gearsy, who liv'd in the Parish of Westmill, in the County of Harford; by one Robert Reeve, and Richard Reeve, both of the same Parish: for which fact Robert was prest to death, on Munday the 16. of March, and the Tuesday following Richard was hang'd; and after both of them were hang'd up in chaines, where now they doe remaine, to the affrightment of all beholders. 1635. To the tune of Fortune my Foe.

  Fortune my Foe
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  A Copy of Verses on the Awful Execution of Charles Christopher Robinson, For the Murder of his Sweetheart, Harriet Segar, of Ablow Street, Wolverhampton, August 26th.
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  A Congratulation on the Happy Discovery of the Hellish Fanatick Plot.

  Now, now the Fight's done
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  A CABINET of Grief: OR, THE French MIDVVIFE'S Miserable mean for the Barbarous Murther committed upon the Body o[...] her Husband

  The Pious Christians Exhortation
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  A breefe balet touching the traytorous takynge of Scarborow Castell.
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  A ballad reioysinge the sodaine fall, of rebels that thought to deuower vs all.

  Reioyce with me ye Christians all ...
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  A ballad intituled, A newe well a daye as playne maister papist, as Donstable waye.

  Welladay