Playford's Progeny

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====== Waltham Abbey ======

Playford in 1697. \\
Interpreted by Charles Bolton in 1992\\
longways proper\\
Recording: {{ ::music:waltham_abbey-cgei15.mp3.zip |}}\\
{{ ::music:walton-walthamabbeydhpedh08.mp3.zip |}}

Video: (rather awkwardly danced) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGCKg9Gp0_Q\\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONY5vQBhIlg&t=41s
<code>
A1     W1, followed by partner, cast down to couple 2's place improper and 
       face up; couple 2 wait 4 beats, lead up, and tum in to face down. 
       All are now facing neighbour on the line. 
       Neighbours back to back Rsh.
  
       W2, followed by partner, cast down to home place improper as 
       couple 1 lead up. All face partner and back to back Rsh.

B1     Couple 1 cross Rsh and move down a place as 
       couple 2 half two-hand turn (4) and lead up (4), 
       to progressed places. All face up and begin a double figure 8,
       couple 2 casting to begin (skip step).
       Finish the double figure 8, ending back in progressed places, 
       still facing up.
       Couple 1 lead up and cast back as couple 2 cast and lead up 
       (walking step).
</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONY5vQBhIlg&t=5s\\

Notes by Charles Bolton:\\
1. The original title was'Walton Abbeld. I have involved couple 2 throughout.
I have omitted the lead down in 82.\\
2. The tune was used by Cecil Sharp to accompany "My Lady's Couranf"
(orig. "Lady Mary's Courant': Dancing-Master, Volume 2).

====== WALTON ABBEY ======
Christian, 2005\\
Walsh 1718-1760\\
<code>
Al 1-4 1st man cast down and 2nd woman cast up, partners following, all moving 
       counterclockwise halfway around the set
   5-8 Partners back-to-back left shoulder. .
A2 1-4 Ist woman cast up and 2nd man cast down, partners following, all moving 
       clockwise halfway around the set to original places.
   5-8 Partners back-to-back right shoulder.
   
B1 1-4 1s cross and go below, while 2s two-hand turn halfway and lead up.
   5-8 Double half figure eight, thus: 1s cross up and cast down, while 2s cast down 
       and cross up (skipping). 
       All progressed and proper.
B2 1-4 1s lead down through the next 2s below, while 2s move up outside the next 1s above, 
       then 1s cast back to progressed places, while 2s lead down to progressed places.
   5-8 1s lead up through their original 2s and cast back to progressed places, 
       while 2s move down outside their original 1s and lead up to progressed places.</code>


History:\\
Waltham Abbey, Essex, dates from pre-Norman times, having been founded by King Harold Godwinson (Harold II). It was a favorite stopping-place for the gentry who hunted Waltham Forest, and was the last abbey to be dissolved in England, in 1540. Subsequently it was the location of a Royal Gunpowder Mill.\\
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