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Collection: English Execution Ballads

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A New BALLAD.
The Triumph of Justice.

Rebellion Rewarded with Justice.

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

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Anne Boleyn's Fortune

¶A balade agaynst malycyous Sclaunderers.

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Tags: Audio recording, beheading, political, treason

A newe ballade made of Thomas Crumwel, called ‘Trolle on away’

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Tags: Audio recording, beheading, political, treason

The true manner of the life and Death of Sir Thomas Wentworth, late Lord Lievtenant Deputy of Ireland,

Sal]isbury Assizes. [?]ard of Witchcraft.

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, witchcraft

Witchcraft discovered and punished.

Tags: English, Female, hanging, witchcraft

Truth brought to light. Or, Wonderful strange and true news from Gloucester shire, concerning one Mr. William Harrison

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, hanging in chains, Male, murder, witchcraft

Iohn Spenser his Repentance in Prison, Written with his owne hand as he lay in Chester Castle.

Tags: English, hanging in chains, Male, murder

Capt. Johnsons last Farewel: Who was arraigned for being assisting in the stealing a young Heiress, for which he received Sentance of Death, and was accordingly Executed at Tyburn, the 23th. of this instant December, 1690.

Tags: assisting to steal an heiress, English, Male

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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Tags: English, hanging, Male, murder

Capt. WHITNEY's Confession: OR, HIS Penitent Lamentation, Under a Sence of a Guilty Conscience, on the Day of his Execution at the Porter's Block, near Smithfield-Bars, which was on the First of February, 1693.

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Tags: English, hanging, highway robbery, Male

This lytle treatyse declareth the study and frutes of Barnes

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Tags: burning, English, heresy, Male

Life of the Mannings executed at Horsemonger Lane Go[...] on Tuesday 13th Nov 1849

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

Life Confession & Execution, of Mr. & Mrs. Manning, for the murder of Mr. O'Conner [sic], with copies of the letters.

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

A new song on the Mannings

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

Execution of the Mannings

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Tags: Audio recording, English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

ane new ballet set out be ane Fugitiue Scottisman that fled out of Paris at this lait Murther.

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Tags: English, Male, murder

The Scotch Lover's Lamentation: OR, GILDEROY's Last FAREWEL.

Tags: English, hanging, Male, poaching

Treason justly punished:

Tags: drawing and quartering, English, hanging, Male, treason

The Brick-makers Lamentation from New-gate:

Tags: Audio recording, English, hanging, Male, treason (false accusation)

The Ballad of Roddy McCorley

Tags: English, hanging, Male, treason

THE DISOBEDIENT SON AND CRUEL HUSBAND.

Tags: English, hanging in chains, Male, murder

The SEA-Martyrs;

Tags: English, hanging, Male

The Lonely Banna Strand

Tags: English

The last Speech and Confession of Jannet Riddle,

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, infanticide

The complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feversham in Kent,

Tags: burning, English, Female, hanging, hanging in chains, Male, murder

The Ballad of Roger Casement

Tags: English

THE Swaggering Man.

Tags: English, hanging, Male, robbery, theft

Some Luck Some Wit

Tags: English, Female, hanging, returning from penal transportation without permission

Sir Hugh in the Grimes Downfall.

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Tags: English, Male, poaching

An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,

Tags: English, Female, hanging, hanging in chains, Male, murder, robbery

A warning to all false Traitors by example of 14.

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Tags: English, heresy, treason

A looking-glass for vvanton women by the example and expiation of Mary Higgs

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Tags: Audio recording, bestiality, buggery with dog, English, Female

A Cabinet of grief,

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Tags: burning, English, Female, murder

Villany Rewarded;

Tags: English, hanging, piracy

The York-shire Tragedy:

Tags: English, hanging, Male, murder

The Penitent Gallant,

Tags: English, murder, rape, sodomy

The Midwife of Poplar's Sorrowful Confession and Lamentation in Newgate

Tags: English, Female, murder

The LAMENTATION OF Dell's Mistris For the Loss of her Gallant.

Tags: English, hanging, Male, murder

The Injured Children,

Tags: English, Female, murder

The Chancellors Resolution:

Tags: English

The Bloody=minded Husband;

Tags: English, Male, murder

THE VVhipster of VVoodstreet,

Tags: Audio recording, English, Female, murder, pardon, torture

THE Penitent Highway-man:

Tags: English, highway robbery, Male

THE Murtherers Lamentation:

Tags: English, Male, murder

The Golden Farmer's Last Fareweel

Tags: Audio recording, English, hanging, Male, murder, robbery

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

Tags: English, hanging, highway robbery, murder

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