English Execution Ballads

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  A balade agaynst malycyous sclaunderers

  Half Hannikin
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  [...] For which fact, he, his wife, and the other woman, were executed at Lanceston, last Lent [Assizes.] [...] in chaines neere unto the place where the murder was done.

  The Ladies Daughter
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  [...] 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
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  [? Sal]isbury Assizes. [?]ard of Witchcraft. Being a true Relation of one Mistris Bodnan living in Fisherton, next house but one to the Gallowes, who being a Witch seduced a Maid, called by name, Anne Stiles, to the s[a]me abominab[le] and detested action of VVitchcraft; which VVitch for that action was executed the 19 day of March 1653.

  Bragandary