Bloody news from Chelmsford: or, a proper new ballad, containing a true and perfect relation of a most barbarous murder
Subtitle: committed upon the body of a country parson who died of a great wound given him in the bottom of his belly, by a most cruel country-butcher for being too familiar with his wife: for which fact he is to be tried for his life at this next assizes. To the tune of Chevy-Chase
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2124.1:145
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1663
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Adultery -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800; Murder -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Poetry; Early works to 1800
Notes: Verse - "Give o'er, ye rhiming ranting Lads,"

Another edition has "curate" and "-fellow" instead of "parson" and "-butcher"

L (Luttrell) Copy cropped

Reproduction of the original in the British Library

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) B3263 (variant)

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1991. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. 35mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2124.1:145).