[1] Price wrote across a range of genres, from bawdy song (in his earlier years), to moral exhortation, horror stories, merry tales, and shortened versions of literary classics.
The enduring quality of Price's songs is marked by the numerous titles captured by Francis Childs via a nineteenth-century oral tradition, which are still performed and enjoyed today.
In his final years, Price concentrated on writing godly pamphlets and sermons, such as The Ready Way to Salvation (1665), which not only appeared regularly in London publishers’ book lists but they were frequently reprinted in colonial America and remained popular for more than a century.
[1] 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)"[2]