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Title
A name given to the resource
English Execution Ballads
Execution Ballad
Set to tune of...
Melody to which ballad is set.
<em><a href="https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/1174">Packington's Pound</a></em>
Transcription
Transcription of ballad lyrics
Come listen a while and a Story you'll hear,
That will strike you with dread & amazement & fear
'Tis of a vile Butcher which with bloody knife,
Without all compassion did murther his wife,
Language
Language ballad is printed in
English
Date
Date of ballad
1697
Printing Location
Location the ballad pamphlet was printed.
[London] : Printed for John Foster, at the Grey-Hound, near the Noah's Ark Tavern, over-against Vine-street At. Giles's in the Fields.
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.
murder
Gender
Gender of the person being executed.
Male
Image / Audio Credit
University of Glasgow Library - Euing, Euing Ballads 223r; <a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31714/image#" target="_blank">EBBA 31714<br /></a>
Digital Object
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Tune Data
<em>Packington's Pound</em> is often cited as <em>Digby's Farewell,</em><em>Packingtons Pound</em> or <em>Amintas' Farewell.</em> The tune first appeared in 1671 and was popular for execution ballads (Simpson 1966, pp. 181-187, 564-570).
Subtitle
or, An account of George Feast, a butcher of Shoreditch, being found guilty ... for the barbarous bloody murther of his wife ... also some account of his penitent behaviour in Newgate. To the tune of, Packingtons pound.
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Title
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The murtherer justly condemned,
hanging
Male
murder