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• Political ballads and songs -- England
• Ballads -- England -- 17th century
• Songs -- England -- 17th century
• Political ballads and songs -- Great Britain -- 17th century
• 17th century

• A congratulation on the happy discovery of the hellish fanatick plot. To the tune of Now, now the the fight's done. (London : Printed by Nat. Thompson next the Cross-Keys in Fetterlane, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A countrey song, intituled, The restoration ([London : s.n., 1661]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick the former a country-man, the other a citizen. Presented to his Excellency and the Council of State, at Drapers-Hall in London, March 28. 1660. (To the tune of I'le never love thee more.) ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Thomas Jordan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A free-Parliament-letany. To the tune of An old souldier of the Queenes. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history of the second death of the Rump. To the tune of, the Parliament sate as snugg as a cat. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hugh Peters last will and testament or, The haltering of the divell. To the tune of, the guelding of the divel. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The anarchie or the blessed reformation since 1640. Being a new caroll wherein the people expresse their thankes and pray for the reformers. To be said or sung of all the well affected of the kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, before they eate any plumbroth at Christmasse. To a rare new tune. ([London : s.n, 1648]), by Thomas Jordan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of Saint George for England. To the tune of, To drive the cold winter away. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Treason rewarded at Tiburn: or, the traitors downfal. Being a full account of the conviction, and condemnation of Ireland, Pickering, and Grove ... as a warning for all traitors, to take example by their fall. To the tune of, Digby's funeral. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [1678]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true loyalist, or the obedient subject. To the tune of, Let Cæsar live long. ([London] : Printed for J. Back, at the Black-Boy, on London-bridge, [between 1682-1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vanity of vanities or Sir Harry Vane's picture. To the tune of the Jews corant. (London : Printed for Charls Gustavus, [1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The arraignment of the divel, for stealing away President Bradshaw To the tune of, Well-a-day, well-a-day. ([London : s.n., 1659]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The braggadocia souldier: and the civill citizen. ([London] : Printed for J.L., 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Colonel John Okie's lamentation, or a Rumper cashiered. To the tune of, And a begging we will go. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year. 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The cities feast to the Lord Protector. To the tune of Cooke Lorrell. (London : Printed for Henry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane, 1661), by Marchamont Nedham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new ballad called a review of the rebellion, in three parts. To the tune of, vvhen the king injoyes his rights againe. ([London : s.n., 1647]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new ballade, to an old tune Tom of Bedlam. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The noble English worthies (London : Printed by Tho. Milbourn, and are to be sold at his house in Jewen-Street, 59. [i.e. 1659]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Parliament-complement, or The re-admission of the secluded-members to the discharge of their long retarded trust. (London : Printed for Iames Nidale, 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A psalme sung by the people, before the bone-fires, made in and about the City of London, on the 11th. of February. To the tune of Up tayles all. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Roome for cuckolds or My Lord Lamberts entrance into Sodome and Gomorrah. To the tune, Is there no more cuckolds but I. (London : Printed for L.M., [1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Rump roughly but righteously handled, in a new ballad to the tune of Cook Lorrel. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Rump serv'd in with a grand sallet. Or, A new ballad, to the tune of the blacksmith. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the year 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Rump ululant, or Penitence per force; being The recantation of the old rust-roguy-rebellious-rampant, and now ruinous rotten-rosted Rump. To the tune of Gerrards mistresse. ([London : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• My bird is a Round-head. Being a very pleasant and true relation of a man in Northamptonshire, that kept a tame owle in his house, whom he called Round-head, and how one of his neighbors had him before a justice, for calling his owle Round-head. To the tune of, Let us to the wars againe. (Printed at London : for Richard Harper, at the Bible and Harpe in Smithfield, 1642), by Humphrey Crouch (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Robin conscience, or, Conscionable Robin his progresse through court, city and countrey: with his bad [en]tertainment at each severall place, &[c.] ([London : For F. Coules, 1640]), by -1656? M. P. (Martin Parker) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Exact collection of the choycest poems and songs (Printed for Henry Brome and Henry Marsh, 1662), by Alexander Brome (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New ministry. Containing a collection of all the satyrical poems, songs, &c. since the beginning of 1742. Being more in number than any other collection hitherto published ... (Printed for W. Webb, 1742) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political songs of England, from the reign of John to that of Edward II. (Printed for the Camden society, by J. B. Nichols and son, 1839), by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political songs of England, from the reign of John to that of Edward II. (Priv. print., 1884), by Thomas Wright and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cavalier and Puritan. (New York city : The New York university press, 1923., 1923), by Hyder Edward Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political ballads of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Longmans, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1860), by William Walker Wilkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tillers of the sand, being a fitful record of the Rosebery administration from the triumph of Ladas to the decline and fall-off. (Simth, Elder & co., 1895), by Owen Seaman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political songs of England : from the reign of John to that of Edward II (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968), by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die music-hall songs and das öffentliche leben Englands. (Druck von E. Hartmann, 1929), by Eberhard Voigt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political ballads published in England during the commonwealth. (Printed for the Percy society by C. Richards, 1841), by Thomas Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• A touch on the times : being a collection of new songs to old tunes, including some few which have appeared in former editions (Printed for the author, at the office of the executors of T. A. Pearson, and sold by Knott & Lloyd, 1803), by John Freeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Pill to purge state-melancholy: or, A collection of excellent ballads. ([s.n.], 1715) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on affairs of state: from the times of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second (s.n.] ;, 1702), by Andrew Marvell, John Wilmot Rochester, John Dryden, and John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rump: or An Exact collection of the choycest poems and songs relating to the late times. By the most eminent wits, from anno 1639 to anno 1661. (Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy lane, and Henry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lawyers demurrer argued by the loyall addressers (the gentlemen) of Grays-Inne against an order made by the bench of the said Society : to the tune of Packingtons pound, or, The Round-head reviv'd. (London : Printed for A.B., 1681) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new littany designed for this Lent and to be sung for the introduction of the Whiggs by T.D., Gent. (London : Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh ..., 1684), by Gent T. D. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vienna's triumph, with the Whigg's lamentation for the overthrow of the Turks to the tune of, Now now the fight's done. ([London] : Printed for J. Deacon ..., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Another ballad called the libertines lampoone, or, The curvets of conscience to the tune of Thomas Varner, or 60 / written by the authour of the Geneva Ballad. (London : Printed for F.K. and Edward Thomas, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1674), by Samuel Butler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Coat of arms of N.T. J.F. & R.L. an answer to Thomson's ballad call'd The loyal feast. (Dublin : Printed for A. Banks, [1682?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A proper new ballad on the old Parliament: Or, the second part of Knave out of doores. To the tune of Hei ho my honey, my heart shall never rue, four and twenty now for your mony, and yet a hard pennyworth too. ([London : s.n., 1659]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lex talionis: or, London revived. To the tune of, Prethy friend leave off this thinking. ([London : s.n., 1647]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An heroick poem to his Royal Highness the Duke of York on his return from Scotland with some choice songs and medleyes on the times / by Mat. Taubman ... (London : Printed for John Smith ..., 1682), by Matthew Taubman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A collection of 86 loyal poems all of them written upon the two late plots viz, the horrid Salamanca plot in 1687, and the present fanatical conspiracy in 1683 : to which is added, advice to the carver : written on the death of the late L. Stafford : with several poems on their majesties coronation, never before published / collected by N.T. ([London?] : Printed by N.T. ..., 1685), by Nathaniel Thompson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Collection of the newest and most ingenious poems, songs, catches &c. against popery relating to the times. (London : [s.n.], 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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