On 16 September 1620, the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth.

Some of the passengers brought books with them, and here is a ballad from one:
Barrow Faustus Dreame, or The Shepherd's Joy
Our recording of a consort song, with lyrics from Richard Johnson's Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures, 1620, one of the books thought to have been carried on the Mayflower by William Brewster.
Musical arrangement from Philip Rosseter's Lessons for Consort, 1609

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Richard De Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: treble viol
Lynda Sayce: tenor viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bban3mmScY8

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A few verses from an anonymous 17th Century ballad about the fate of Lady Jane Grey.
From the Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures, 1620
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Richard De Winter: tenor
Tamsin Lewis: alto
A lamentable Ditty on the death of the Lord Guilford Dudley, and the Lady Iane Gray, that for their parents ambition, in seeking to make these two yong Princes King and Queene of England, were both beheaded in the Tower of London.
To the tune of, Peter and Parnell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4K-40XRhGY

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The Sick Tune: an anonymous #sixteenthcentury ballad melody from MS Dd.9.33

Played by Sam Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-HFTLUoxl8&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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The Lowest Trees Have Tops.

John Dowland’s setting of a poem by Edward Dyer.

From The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, 1603

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJYsfVJ1bdg&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by the Society of Antiquaries to recreate clothing described in the Tudor song, Greensleeves.
Really excited to be working on this project with a team of superb costume historians.
Among other things, there will be a video to come in the future, and a book about Greensleeves & early modern clothing in music and song, but in the meantime, here is our recording of the words and music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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My Little Sweet Darling
An anonymous Tudor lullaby (sometimes attributed to William Byrd.)
The song is found in multiple sources, and may originally have been sung in “A tragedy called Oedipus,” an Elizabethan translation of a Latin play by Seneca.

Sam Brown: lute
Eleanor Cramer: soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8pcxXAtqk&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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