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Collection: English Execution Ballads

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Anne VVallens Lamentation,

Tags: Audio recording, burning, Female, 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

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

Captain Johnson's Last Farewel to the World,

Captain Johnson's Last Farewel.jpg

Tags: assisting to steal an heiress, English, Male

Caveat for Cut-purses.

Tags: Female, hanging, Male, theft

Certayne versis writtene by Thomas Brooke Gentleman

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

Constance of Cleveland.

Tags: beheading, Female, murder

CRIMINALS CRUELTY.

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

Damnable Practises Of three Lincolne-shire Witches,

damnable practises of three lincolnshire witches.mp3

Tags: Audio recording, Female, strangling, witchcraft

DEVOL's last Farewel:

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Execution of Frederick Baker

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Tags: hanging, Male, murder

Execution of the Mannings

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

Execution of the Purfleet Murderer

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Tags: hanging, Male, murder, rape

Execution of the Purfleet murderer at Springfield gaol

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Tags: hanging, Male, murder, rape

Francis Winter's last Farewel:

Tags: English, Male

Iohn Spenser a Chesshire Gallant,

Tags: Audio recording, hanging in chains, Male, murder

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

Tags: English, hanging in chains, Male, murder

Kevin Barry

Tags: English, hanging, Male, murder, soldier, torture

Lamentation of Margaret Bell,

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Tags: Female, hanging, infanticide, transportation

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

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

Life of the Mannings executed.jpg

Tags: English, Female, hanging, Male, murder

Life, last words and dying speech of Stephen Smith.

Luke Huttons Lamentation,

Tags: hanging, highway robbery, Male

Luke Huttons lamentation:

Tags: hanging, Male, robbery

Margaret Bell's Lament

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Tags: Female, hanging, infanticide, transportation

Murther Unparalel'd:

Tags: hanging, Male, murder

Of the endes and deathes of two Prisoners lately pressed to death in Newgate. 1569.

Tags: Male, pressing

Perjury Punish'd with equal Justice;

Tags: English, Male, perjury, pillory

Rebellion Rewarded with Justice.

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

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Tags: English, Female, hanging, witchcraft

Save a thief from the Gallows, and he'l Hang thee if he can,

Tags: English, hanging, Male, murder

Sir Hugh in the Grimes Downfall.

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Tags: English, Male, poaching

Sir Thomas Armstrong's Farevvel:

Tags: Audio recording, drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

Sir Walter Rauleigh his lamentation:

Tags: beheading, Male, treason

Some Luck Some Wit

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

Sr. Thomas Armstrongs Last Farewell to the VVORLD:

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Tags: drawing and quartering, hanging, Male, treason

Summers his Frolick.

Tags: English, hanging, highway robbery, Male

The Araignement of John Flodder and his wife,

Tags: arson, Audio recording, Female, hanging in chains, Male

The Arrainement condemnation and execution of the grand [cutpurse] Iohn Selman

Tags: hanging, Male, robbery, theft

The Ballad of Roddy McCorley

Tags: English, hanging, Male, treason

The Ballad of Roger Casement

Tags: English

The BERKSHIRE Tragedy,

Tags: hanging, Male, murder

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

Tags: Female, hanging, Male, murder, rape

The Bloody Murtherer:

Tags: Audio recording, Male, murder

THE Bloody-minded Husband;

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

The Bloody=minded Husband;

Tags: English, Male, murder

The Brick-makers Lamentation from New-gate:

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

The Bully WHIG:

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

THE Chamberlain's Tragedy:

Tags: English, Female, murder

The Chancellors Resolution:

Tags: English

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