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====== Three Coney Walk: Or, Number Three ======

William Pearson, John Young, [1726]\\ 
Longways, triple minor, triple progression\\
Tune: Three Coney Walk
<code>
AI 1-4 Ist man long cast down into 2nd  place, 2nd man moving up into Ist place in 
       bars 3-4. 
   5-8 Ist man and 3rd wo. 2-hand turn once round.
A2 1-4 Ist woman long cast down into 2nd place, 2nd woman moving up into Ist place in 
       bars 3-4. 
   5-8 Ist woman and 3rd man 2-hand turn once and a bit round, Ist woman finishing 
       between 3rd  cpl., as Ist man long cast up round 2nd man, to finish between 
       2nd cpl., in facing lines of 3 across.
BI 1-4 Lines of 3 go forward and fall back. 
   5-8 Ist cpl. 2-hand turn three quarters round into 2nd place proper and cross R. 
       into
A4 1-8 Ist cpl. R-hand turn with Ist cnrs. (Ist man & 3nd woman, Ist woman & 2nd man), then 
       Ist cpl. L-hand turn., into
B2 1-4 Ist cpl. long cast down into 3rd place, 3rd cpl. leading up into 2nd place in 
       bars 3-4. 
   5-8 1st cpl. and 2nd cpl. below, ptns. facing,  3 changes of rights and lefts. </code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_9q1BcN4s&t=35s

Note on the dance: 
Bethnall Green Hornpipe in Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances Book the Third, [1740], and The Compleat 
Country Dancing-Master: Volume The Fourth, [1747], sets the same figure to a different tune.

Note on the title: 
Three Coney Walk, now known as Lambeth Walk, was, in the 18 century, the location of Lambeth 
Wells, a place of public entertainment opened in 1696, with daily "consorts of very good music" and 
also French and country dancing. Dudley Ryder, a student at the Middle Temple (who should later 
become Attorney General), records his visit there on Monday 18'" July 1715 with disdain: "Paid 
threepence for entrance. There was a good deal of company but all made up of rakes and whores. 
There seemed to be scarce a sober man or woman there ... There were country dances but such very 
mean company that? w.as ashamed to be seen in the room much more to have danced with them". 
However, it survived, flourished even, until 1755, when its dancing licence was refused and the 
premises became, of all things, a Methodist meeting house.
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