The lamentation of Michael Barrett.
[London? : s.n.,
1868]
Dated from internal evidence - Michael Barrett was hanged on 26th May, 1868 at Newgate Prison for his alleged involvement in the explosion at Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell, London, the previous December. This was the last public hanging in Britain.
The lamentation of Michael Barrett - first line reads: I will unfold to young and old if you but lend an ear.
Polly Perkins - first line reads: I'm a broken-hearted milkman in grief I'm arrayed.
O would I were a bird - first line reads: Oh, would I were a bird, that I might fly to thee.
In two columns.
Three ballads.
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Ballads, English
Executions and executioners
England London.