Dances
called at the Halsway Manor “Wit and Mirth” weekends
(2001-2006)
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WIT
AND MIRTH I
(2001)
FRIDAY
EVENING
1.
2.
3. Merry Hop Longways (triple minor)
4. The Maid
Peeped Out at the Window 4
cpl
5. Softly Robin Longways
6. The Garter Longways
7. Fly Boat 3
cpl
8.
SATURDAY MORNING
Nathaniel Kynaston Dances
1. Lady Dainty Longways
2. The
She Favourite 3 cpl
3. Softly, Good
Tummas Longways
4. Flora's
Vagaries 3
cpl
5. The Constant
Lover Longways (triple minor)
Pills to Purge Melancholy
1. Ladies of
2. The Bonny
Grey-Ey'd Morn Longways
3. Chloe's
Farewell 3
cpl
4. Woolly and Georgey Longways
5. Windsor
Terrace Longways (triple minor)
SATURDAY EVENING
1-7 Philippe Callens
1. Excuse Me Longways
2. Slof Galliard 4
cpl
3. Michael and
All Angels Longways
4. Halsway Manners 3
cpl
5. Jacob Hall's
Jig Longways
6. Terpsichore 4
cpl
7. News from Tripoly Longways
8. Whitsun Holidays Longways
9. Neat, Mr.
John 3
cpl
10. Orange
11. The Twins 4
cpl
12. Pool's Hole Longways
13 Ely Minster Longways
14. Paston's Maggot 3
cpl
15. Mr Kynaston's Famous Dance Longways
SUNDAY MORNING
Nathaniel Kynaston Dances
1.
2. Bickerstaff's Prophesie 3 cpl
3. The
Despairing Lover Longways
Dances from the Walsh Annuals
1. Sarjeant Kyte Longways
2. Sam's Maggot 3
cpl
3. Jumper's Chace Longways
4. Masquerade
Royal 3
cpl
5. Whiskers Longways (triple minor)
WIT AND MIRTH II
(2002)
FRIDAY EVENING
1. Kettleby's Whim Longways
2. Blenheim House Longways
3. Beau's
Retreat 3
cpl
4. Whiskers Longways (triple minor)
5. Parson upon
Dorothy 2
cpl
6. Hunt the
Squirrel/The Geud Man of Ballangigh Longways
7. Fine Dame 4
cpl
8. Hamburger
Special Longways
9. A Trip to
Bath 3
cpl
10. Softly, Good
Tummas Longways
SATURDAY MORNING
Nathaniel Kynaston Dances
1. The Gay
Young Squire Longways
2. Dudmason Hall 3
cpl
3.
4. As Quick as you Please Longways (triple minor)
Tom Cook Dances
1. Hoyle Bank Longways
2. Reluctant
Recruit 3
cpl
3. Double Bend 4
cpl
4. Eileen's a
Dear Longways
SATURDAY EVENING
1-7 Phillipe Callens
1. John the
Madman Longways
2. The Dusty
Miller 3
cpl
3. Draw Cupid
Draw Longways
4.
5. An Early
Frost Longways
7. Room for
Ramblers Longways
8. Fiddler on
the Mount Longways
9. The British
Toper 3
cpl
10. Orange
11. The Constant
Lover Longways (triple minor)
12. Cuckolds All
a Row 2
cpl
13. Winter Waltz 3
cpl
14. Well Done
Jack Longways
SUNDAY MORNING
Dances from the John Playford
Editions of "The Dancing Master"
1. Hey, Ho, My
Honey Longways
2. Goddesses 4
cpl
3. Black Jack 2
cpl
4. Old Simon
the King Longways
Dances from the Walsh Annuals
1.
2. Off With the
Mask 3
cpl
3. Fop's Fancy Longways
4. Evans's
Delight 3
cpl
5. Doway Longways (triple minor)
WIT AND MIRTH III (2003)
FRIDAY EVENING
1. Old Hob or The Mouse Trap Longways
2. Off with the
Mask 3
cpl
3. Wood's March Longways (triple minor)
4. Nymph Divine Longways
5. The Maid Peep'd out at the Window 4
cpl
6. Fop's Fancy Longways
7. Abbey
Reflection 3
cpl
8. Dunham Oaks Longways
9. Love and a
Bottle 3
cpl
10. Joy to the
Person of My Love Longways
SATURDAY MORNING
Nathaniel Kynaston Dances
1. The Laughing
Vicar Longways
2.
3. Young
Damon's Flight 3
cpl
Brian Wedgbury Dances
1. Cobbler's
Jig 2
cpl
2. Gweneth Longways
3. Nell's Figary 3
cpl
4. Flixton House Longways
SATURDAY EVENING
1-7 Philippe Callens
1. Whitney's
Farewell Longways
2. Gold for the
Mahieus 3
cpl
3.
4. Since First
I Saw Your Face 2
cpl
5. Autumn in
6. Avoncroft 3
cpl
7. Sion House Longways
8. All Alive Longways
9. Dudmason Hall 3
cpl
10. Camberwell Longways
11. The New
Milkmaid's Bob 4
cpl
12. Royal
Fishery Longways
13. De'il Take the Wars 3
cpl
14. Mr. Kynaston's Famous Dance Longways
SUNDAY MORNING
Thomas Bray Dances
1. Gleamham Hall Longways
2. The Lover's
Luck Longways
3. Grenadier's Exercise Longways
Pills to Purge Melancholy
1. Bonny
2. Draw Cupid
Draw Longways
3. The Spanheim 3
cpl
4. Ianthe Longways (triple minor)
5. De'il Take the Wars Longways
WIT AND MIRTH IV
(2004)
FRIDAY EVENING
1.
2. Neat, Mr.
John 3
cpl
3. Camberwell Longways
4. Whiskers Longways (triple minor)
5. Dull
6. Queen's
Square Longways
7. Blackwell
Hall 3
cpl
8. The Bonny
Grey-Ey'd Morn Longways
9. La Contrefatte Longways
SATURDAY MORNING
Nathaniel Kynaston Dances
1. The Tuneful
Nightingale Longways
2. The Lover of
Old Maids 3
cpl
3. George's
Maggot Longways (triple minor)
4. Love in a Hopyard 3
cpl
Belgian Capers (Philippe Callens)
1. Casterton Capers Longways
2. The
Pharmacist's Pleasure 3
cpl
3, A Trip to
4.
SATURDAY EVENING
1. Widows shall
all have Husbands Longways
2.
3. The Garter Longways
4. Scotch Cap 3
cpl
5. Doway Longways (triple minor)
6. The Carillon
at Sneek 4
cpl
7. Hamburger
Special Longways
8. Kettleby's Whim Longways
9. Dudmason Hall 3
cpl
10. Woolly and Georgey Longways
11. Cobbler's
Jig 2
cpl
12. William
Marshall's Maggot Longways
13. De'il Take the Wars 3
cpl
14. Measure for
Measure Longways
SUNDAY MORNING
Love for Love - Dances in and to Music from the Play (Wm. Congreve, 1695)
1. A Soldier
and a Sailor Longways
2. Love for
Love. Danc'd
in the Play Longways
3. The Happy
Meeting Longways
Kynaston and Other Dances from Walsh
1. Mr.
Clayton's Facer Longways
2.
3. The Old Maid
in Hopes Longways (triple minor)
4. Jumper's Chace Longways
WIT AND MIRTH V
(2005)
FRIDAY EVENING
1. Grange Court Longways
2.
3. Ely Minster Longways
4. The Old Maid
in Hopes Longways (triple minor)
5. The New
Milkmaids Bob 4
cpl
6. Portabella Longways
7. Wildboar's Maggot 3
cpl
8. Mr. Kynaston's Famous Dance Longways
SATURDAY MORNING
Kynaston and Other Dances from Walsh
1. Young Phillis of
2. Love's Last
Shift 3
cpl
3. Tomson's Whim Longways (triple minor)
4. Sapho and Phaon 3 cpl
5. The Tuneful
Nightingale Longways
Dances to the Music of Jeremiah Clarke (Philippe Callens)
1. The Beaux
Delight Longways
2. The Spring Longways
3. From
4. The Bonny Grey-Ey'd Morn Longways
5. Old Noll's
Jig Longways
SATURDAY EVENING
1. The Cookow Longways
2. Evans's
Delight 3
cpl
3. Shropshire
Lass Longways (triple minor)
4. Love and a
Bottle Longways
5. Rufty Tufty 2
cpl
7. Lady Dainty Longways
8. All
Together, One After Another Longways
9. A Trip to
Holy-Well 3
cpl
10. Draper's
Gardens Longways
11. Hampstead
Manor 4
cpl
12. Doway Longways (triple minor)
13. Emperor of
the Moon Longways
SUNDAY MORNING
Brian Wedgbury Dances
1. Diamond
Celebration Longways
2. Nun's
Dances from The Henry Playford Editions of "The Dancing Master" (8th-12th,
1690-1703)
1.
2.
3. Mr. Eaglesfield's New Hornpipe Longways
4. Captain's
Maggot 3
cpl
5. Golden
Square Longways (triple minor)
WIT AND MIRTH VI
(2006)
FRIDAY EVENING
1. Hurly Burly Longways
2. Neat, Mr.
John 3
cpl
3. Manage The Miser Longways
4. Put on Thy
Smock on a Monday 3
cpl round
5. Black and
Grey Longways (triple minor)
6. The Triumph Longways
7. A Trip to The Boar 3
cpl
8. Ormond House Longways
SATURDAY MORNING
Nathaniel Kynaston Dances
1. Lady Dainty Longways
2. Dainty Fine
Bride 3
cpl
3. Fort of Mounjoy Longways
4. The British
Toper 3
cpl
Colin Wallace Dances (Ian Jones)
1. A Beastly
Affair Longways
2. The Floating
Parliament 3
cpl
3. No, No, He's
Not With Me Longways
SATURDAY EVENING
1. Spanish Jig Longways
2.
3. The Old Maid
in Hopes Longways (triple minor)
4. Lull Me Beyond Thee 4
cpl
5. The Garter Longways
6. Welch Morris
Dance 3
cpl
7.
8. Kettleby's Whim Longways
9. A Trip to
Holy-Well 3
cpl
10. The Maid's
Last Wish Longways
11. Lord Killmurry's Delight Longways
12. Dull
13. Mr Kynaston's Famous Dance Longways
SUNDAY MORNING
John Essex Dances (1710-c.1715)
1.