1 50 2 https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/files/original/ee1d71e48dfe5670d1a8b1e7f5b904e6.jpg 60a32feed909931af68780f619b24e2f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource English Execution Ballads Execution Ballad Set to tune of... Melody to which ballad is set. My Virgins Treasure Transcription Transcription of ballad lyrics OF all the pirates Ive heard or seen, The basest and Bloodiest is Captain Green, To treat our Merchant Ships at such a rate, After Robbery, his Crime to aggravate, Under pretence of setting them a shoar: Our Merchant Men them to devore. Which clearly is proven to be very true, He deserves to be hangd & all his Crue: How great was GODs providence in discovering This odious Murther, and it to Light bring! By a Villian pretended to marry a Lass, That Lives in Burntisland, if it had come to pass That he had obtained her to be his Bride, We should never known what did Drummond betid[e] As he was from Indies returning home, Whom Green basly murthered, when to Malabra come; This villian John Hynds, who at first did discover, Deserves to be hanged, for example to other Such Villians hereafter to deny what they say; once out of reveange, then with both hands to play And as for John Madder, who ought to have rather Preserved his Country, he deserves a Tadder; And that is too too little if he get his due: Hes the Bloodiest Villian of all the Crue. No Murther and Robbery was ever more clear Made evident, than this as doth now appear, By their own Declaration after Sentence given, Fearing to be debarred from Heaven If they die so hard hearted as not to confess, Or if by confessing they may have redress: Which if they obtain, theyl fall to a new, To Robe, to murther, then hang all the base Crue. Except the Chirurgion, the Cook and the Black, That yet remains of that Bloody pack: Because ingenious they were in their Narrations And constant were to their first Declaration, But for all the rest of so cruel a Crue, Hanging is too little if they get their due, And more especially Madder and Hynds should be hangd, drawn, quarterd, hung in chains! Let this to all hellish Villians hereafter prove. A warning from falling into such crimes, least Jove Pursue them with vengeance as he hath done Green And his Bloody Crue, whose practise has been, Of a long time to live by Piracie, and Murther, which we sufficiently see; To be most clear and evidently proven Let Green and his Crue to the Gallows be drive[n.] Language Language ballad is printed in English Date Date of ballad 1705 Synopsis Account of events that are the subject of the ballad Singer calls for execution of crew of pirates Notes Additional information related to the ballad pamphlet or related events <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Green_(captain)" target="_blank">Wikipedia: </a> Thomas Green (1679/1680-1705) was an English sailor and alleged pirate, who was captain of the Worcester. He was hanged on Leith sands in Scotland along with two of his crew on 11 April 1705. <br /><br />Green was celebrated in a contemporary ballad: <br />Of all the pirates I've heard and seen<br />The basest and the bloodiest is Captain Green <br /><br />The Worcester was seized, probably at the bequest of the Secretary of the Company of Scotland (Roderick Mackenzie), when she came into the Firth of Forth simply to weather a storm; Green and his crew were alleged to have boarded a ship, the ironically named Speedy Return, off the Malabar coast in India, killed the crew, stolen the goods on board, then sold the ship. <br /><br />However, the evidence against Green has been considered flimsy; during the trial, the ship in question was never named, and neither the ship's owner nor any next of kin of the alleged deceased came forward. Furthermore, the exact time and place of the incident were never specified ("upon one or other Days of the Months of February, March, April or May, in the year 1703"). <br /><br />As the alleged incident was outside of Scottish waters, the veracity of the trial was also called into question; however the prosecution argued that the subjects of the piracy had, according to different witnesses, either sailed under an English flag or had spoken English, and as such, Green and his crew were subject to the justice of Admiralty. To further dispel any pretence of a fair trial, many of the crew were forbidden to provide evidence, and one of those who was allowed - the captain's Indian servant - had been "chained and nailed to the Floor of the Fore-Castle" at the time of the alleged incident." The evidence given by this hardly objective witness was accepted. The English historian G. M. Trevelyan complained that while "the 'evidence' did not even pretend to be more than hearsay [...] the court [was] drunk with patriotic prejudice." <br /><br />Green was sentenced to death, originally intended for the 3 April 1705, but this was postponed for a time at the request of the Queen's Privy Council. During this time it became known to those involved in the trial that survivors of the Speedy Return had arrived back in England, and were ready to testify to the innocence of Green and his colleagues. Nevertheless, the Crown's Scottish representatives failed to stand up to an angry Edinburgh mob, and did not postpone the execution date further. <br /><br />Green and two of his crew members, an Englishman, Simpson, and John Madder, a Scot, were found guilty and hanged on Leith Sands on 11 April. The men met their deaths, amongst the braying mob, with calm and resolve. It is probable that the Worcester was seized in an act of revenge against the East India Company (for whom Green had earlier worked) that had seized one of the last ships of the Company of Scotland, the Annandale, the previous year. After the executions of the three, the remaining crewmen were quietly released with no further charge. The incident caused great consternation and anger throughout much of England and provided fodder for the vitriolic patriots on both sides of the border. <br /><br />Trevelyan concluded that the deaths of the three men served as an outlet for a widely held Scottish resentment of their Anglo-centric government's mismanagement. Examples of the problems partially caused by this mis-governance included the Glencoe Massacre, the ill-fated Darien Scheme (the failure of which was partially attributable to King William's concession to English mercantile interest) and the "seven ill years" (seven bad harvests experienced by Scottish farmers between 1692 and 1698, blame for which must also lie partially with archaic tools, expertise and practices in use at that time). Crime(s) Crime or crimes for which the person in the ballad is convicted. piracy, murder Gender Gender of the person being executed. Multiple Image / Audio Credit British Library - Roxburghe, C.20.f.9.609; <a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31311/image#" target="_blank">EBBA 31311</a> Digital Object <iframe src="https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/files/fullsize/ee1d71e48dfe5670d1a8b1e7f5b904e6.jpg" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" width="500" height="600"></iframe> Subtitle OR, A new Song on Captain Green and his bloody CRUE: To the Tune of, My Virgins Treasure. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Merites of PIRACIE murder piracy https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/files/original/55b07cc737e3a2214d7e4b9d52d839e1.jpg 928e93b70307dcff8024891044c24294 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource English Execution Ballads Execution Ballad Set to tune of... Melody to which ballad is set. <a href="https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/1170"><em>Russell's Farewell</em></a> Transcription Transcription of ballad lyrics WEll may the World against us cry, for these our Deeds most base, For which, alas! we now must dye, Death looks us in the face; Which is no more than what's our due, since we so wicked were, As here shall be declar'd to you, let Pyrates then take care. We with our Comrades, not yet ta'en, together did agree, And stole a Ship out from the Groyne, to Roam upon the Sea: With which we Robb'd, and Plunder'd too, no Ship that we did spare, Thus many a one we did undo, let Pyrates then take care. Our Ship being well stored then for this our Enterprise, One Hundred and Eighty Men there was in her likewise: We Pillag'd all we could come nigh, no Nation did we spare, For which a shameful death we dye, let Pirates then take care. We Robb'd a Ship upon the Seas, the Gunsway call'd by name, Which we met near the East-Indias, and Rifled the same; In it was Gold and Silver store, of which all had a share, Each man 600 pounds and more let Pirates then take care. Thus for some time we liv'd, and Reign'd as masters of the Sea, Every Merchant we detain'd and us'd most cruelly, The Treasures took, we sunk the Ship, with those that in it were, That would not unto us submit, let Pirates then take care. Thus Wickedly we e'ery day liv'd upon others good, The which, alas! we must repay now with our dearest blood, For we on no one mercy took, nor any did we spare, How can we then for mercy look, let Pirates then take care. We thus did live most cruelly, and of no danger thought, But we at last, as you may see, are unto Justice brought, For Outrages of Villany, of which we Guilty are, And now this very day must dye, let Pirates then take care. Now farewel to this wicked World, and our Companions too, From hence we quickly shall be hurl'd to clear the way for you, For certainly if e're you come to Justice as we are, Deserved death will be your doom, then Pirates all take care. Language Language ballad is printed in English Date Date of ballad 1696 Notes Additional information related to the ballad pamphlet or related events <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_Dock" target="_blank">Wikipedia: </a> Execution Dock was used for more than 400 years in London to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers that had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock", which consisted of a scaffold for hanging, was located near the shoreline of the River Thames at Wapping. Its last executions were in 1830.The legal jurisdiction for the British Admiralty was for all crimes committed at sea. The dock symbolised that jurisdiction by being located just beyond the low-tide mark in the river. Anybody who had committed crimes on the seas, either in home waters of abroad, would eventually be brought back to London and tried by the High Court of the Admiralty. <br /><br />Capital punishment was reserved for acts of mutiny that resulted in death and for murders on the High Seas. Those sentenced to death were usually brought to Execution Dock from Marshalsea Prison (although some were also transported from the Newgate). The condemned were paraded across London Bridge past the Tower of London. The procession was led by the High Court Marshal on horseback (or his deputy). He carried a silver oar that represented the authority of the Admiralty. Prisoners were transported in a cart to Wapping, with them was a chaplain who encouraged them to confess their sins. Just like the execution procession to Tyburn, condemned prisoners were allowed to a drink a quart of ale at a public house on the way to the gallows. An execution at the dock usually meant that crowds lined the river's banks or chartered boats moored in the Thames to get a better view of the hangings. Executions were conducted by the hangmen who worked at either Tyburn and Newgate Prison. <br /><br />With a particular cruelty reserved for those convicted of acts of piracy, hanging was done with a shortened rope. This meant a slow death from strangulation on the scaffold as the drop was insufficient to break the prisoner's neck. It was called the Marshal's dance because their limbs would often be seen to 'dance' from slow asphyxiation. Unlike hangings on land such as at Tyburn, the bodies of pirates at Execution Dock were not immediately cut down following death. Customarily, these corpses were left hanging on the nooses until at least three tides had washed over their heads. This practice stopped at the end of the 18th century. In the cases of the most notorious offenders, the Admiralty would order that their bodies were to be tarred and hung in chains at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point- on the River Thames - as a warning to all seafarers about the fate awaiting those who turned to piracy. Printing Location Location the ballad pamphlet was printed. LONDON: Printed for Charles Barnet, 1696. Method of Punishment Method of punishment described in the ballad. hanging Crime(s) Crime or crimes for which the person in the ballad is convicted. piracy Execution Location Location the condemned was executed. Execution Dock Digital Object <iframe src="https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/files/fullsize/55b07cc737e3a2214d7e4b9d52d839e1.jpg" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" width="600" height="400"></iframe> Image / Audio Credit Magdalene College - Pepys Library, Pepys Ballads 2.199; <a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/20813/image" target="_blank">EBBA 20813</a> Subtitle OR, THE PIRATES Last Farewel To the VVorld: Who was Executed at Execution Dock, on Wednesday the 25th. of November, 1696. Being of Every's Crew. Together with their free Confession of their most Horrid Crimes. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Villany Rewarded; English hanging piracy