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====== Hedge Lane ======

 Playford's Dancing Master  1679.\\
Interpreted by Andrew Shaw 2017\\
Tune: Hedge Lane\\
Longways, duple minor proper
<code>
A 1-2 Nbrs. fall back and come forward. 
  3-4 1st cpl. short cast down into 2nd place, meeting in the middle of the set, 
      then turn S. up (man L., woman R.) to finish facing down in Ist place, as 
      2nd cpl. lead up into Ist place, then cast out onto the ends of a line ot 4 
      facing down.
B 1-2 Line of 4 lead down and fall back into set formation
  3-4 2nd cpl lead up through 1st cpl and cast back down to place.
C 1-2 Ptns. pass R., turning R. to face in the centre of the set, then turn S. L. 
      into each other's place, then 
  3-4 Ptns. pass L., turning L. to face, then turn S. R. into original places.
D 1-2 1st man and 2nd wo. R-hand turn once round. 
  3-4 1st wo. and 2nd man R-hand turn once round. 
  5-6 1st cpl. 2-hand turn once round, moving down into 2nd place, as 2nd cpl. 
      long cast up into 1st place.</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW2UXRgCrzM&t=11s\\
Source:\\
A Supplement to the Dancing-Master, of new Dances, never Printed before. 
T~~ supplement is found bound in with The Dancing-Master, The Sixth Edition, with Additions, 
published by John Playford in 1679, but has separate pagination and may have been issued at a later 
date, possibly in 1683 when the Term Catalogue (a quarterly list of new books and reprints issued by 
the booksellers of London) lists The Dancing Master, To which is added, several new Dances never 
published before. The dance appears in all subsequent editions to the 16 of 1716 and was also 
published by John Walsh in all tour editions of The Compleat Country Dancing-Master [Book 1j, from 
1718 onwards.

Note on the title: \\
Now known as Whitcomb Street and Wardour Street, Hedge Lane was an ancient narrow 
thoroughfare which ran from Pall Mall to what is now Oxford Street. In 1720, historian John Strype 
described it as "a place of no great Account for Buildings or Inhabitants". It gained brief notoriety, 
however, during the Exclusion Crisis of the early 1680s, when newswriters coined the phrase "Hedge 
Lane Lords" to describe a group of Whig grandees, the most important of whom were Shaftesbury 
and Essex, associated with the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate but Protestant son. The 
reference was to Monmouth's lodgings and stables in Hedge Lane, his main residence after being 
banned from the Court in December 1681, and to those lords who supported the exclusion of James, Duke of York, Charles's Catholic brother, from the throne.


Note on the dance: \\
Following his trip to England in 1685, the French dancing master Andre Lorin included a slightly 
different version of this dance in his manuscript Livre De Conztredance presente Au Roy, [1685-87j. 
In The Dancing-Master ... The 17"' Edition, 1721, and repeated in the 18 edition of [1728j, a new figure 
is set to the tune requiring a repeat of the A phrase.
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