Laurence Price

Laurence Price (fl. 1624–1667?) was a writer of ballads and pamphlets in England. His close links to the publishing trade over a period of nearly forty years make it likely that he lived in London for most, if not all, of his life. He was strongly influenced by the works of Nicholas Breton and Thomas Deloney, turning to them for inspiration at various points in his career.

A 1986 article in Sociological Review, using the 1896 Dictionary of National Biography entry as a starting point, found Price to be the then-unidentified "L.P.", author of several well-known broadsheet ballads including "A Warning for Married Women ". The author quotes Hyder Edward Rollins as describing Price as "almost the last of the distinguished line of ballad-writers that began in 1559 with William Elderton (or in 1512 with John Skelton)"