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Collection: English Execution Ballads

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[...] / For which fact, he, his wife, and the other woman, were executed at Lanceston, last Lent Assizes, [...]

Tags: Female, hanging in chains, Male, murder

[...] Being a sad and true Relation of the Apprehension, Tryal, Confession, Condemnation, and Execution of the two barbarous and bloody Murtherers,

Tags: hanging, Male, murder

¶A balade agaynst malycyous Sclaunderers.

A Balade agaynst malycyous sclaunderers.jpg

Tags: Audio recording, beheading, political, treason

A ballad intituled, A newe well a daye

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Tags: hanging, Male, treason

A BALLAD ON THE MURDER OF MR HAYES BY HIS WIFE

Tags: burning, Female, murder, strangling

A ballad reioysinge the sodaine fall, of rebels that thought to deuower vs all.

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A breefe balet touching the traytorous takynge of Scarborow Castell.

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Tags: beheading, high treason, Male

A Cabinet of grief,

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Tags: burning, English, Female, murder

A Congratulation on the happy discovery of the hellish fanatick plot

Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

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

A cruell murther committed lately upon the body of Abraham Gearsy

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Tags: hanging, hanging in chains, Male, murder, pressing

A declaration of the death of Iohn Lewes,

Tags: burning, heresy, Male

A discription of Nortons falcehod Of Yorke shyre, and of his fatall farewel.

Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

A few Lines Upon the awful EXECUTION of John Ormesby & Matth. Cushing, October 17th. 1734

Tags: burglary, hanging, Male

A Lamentable Ditty made on the Death of Robert Deverux Earl of Essex,

Tags: beheading, Male, treason

A lamentable new Ballad upon the Earle of Essex his death.

Tags: beheading, Male, treason

A letter to Rome, to declare to ye Pope, Iohn Felton his freend is hangd in a rope:

Tags: Audio recording, hanging, high treason, Male, quartering

A looking-glass for traytors

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

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 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.

Tags: burning, Female, heresy

A most ioyfull Songe, made in the behalfe of all her Maiesties faithfull and louing Subiects:

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

A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing

Tags: burglary, hanging, Male, murder

A new Ballad intituled, the stout Cripple of Cornwall

Tags: hanging, Male, robbery, theft

A New Ballad of Three Merry Butchers AND Ten High-Way Men,

Tags: Female, hanging in chains, murder

A New BALLAD.
The Triumph of Justice.

A New made MEDLY Compos'd out of sundry SONGS,

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A new song on the Mannings

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

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

A newe balade made by Nicholas Balthorp which suffered in Calys.jpg

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

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Tags: Audio recording, beheading, political, treason

A proper new Ballad, breefely declaring the Death and Execution of I4.

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

A proper newe Ballad, declaring the substaunce of all the late pretended Treasons against the Queenes Maiestie, and Estates of this Realme, by sundry Traytors:

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

A Serious copy of Verses on the late Miss Wray.

Tags: hanging, Male, murder

A SONG of the Light of the three Nations turn'd into DARKNES

Tags: Male, treason

A Song, on the Confession and Dying Words of William Stevenson,

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Tags: Male, murder

A Terror for TRAITORS

Tags: beheading, drawing and quartering, hanging, high treason, Male

A Triumph for true Subiects, and a Terrour vnto al Traitours:

A Triumph for true Subiects, and a Terrour unto al Traitours.jpg

Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

A true and Tragical SONG, concerning Captain JOHN BOLTON,

Tags: hanging, Male, murder

A true relation of one Susan Higges

Tags: Female, hanging, highway robbery, murder

A warning for all desperate VVomen.

Tags: Audio recording, burning, Female, murder

A warning for wiues,

Tags: burning, English, Female, murder

A warning to all false Traitors by example of 14.

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Tags: English, heresy, treason

A Warning to all Priests and jesuites,

A Warning to Murtherers:

Tags: English, hanging in chains, Male, murder

An admonition to Doctor Story

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

AN ELEGIE On the never to be forgotten Sir Thomas Armstrong Knight;

Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

AN ELEGY On the DEATH of William Lord RUSSEL,

Tags: beheading, high treason, Male

An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel an Apprentice in London,

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

An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,

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

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

Anne Boleyn's Fortune

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