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====== Whitehall Minuet ======

4 cpl set?  
<code>
A 1-4: First four take hands and go halfway round.
A 5-8: Then back again to your own places.

B 1-4: 1st Couple cross over and go down behind the 2nd Couple.
B 5-8: Then cross over again and go down behind the 3rd Couple.
B 9-12: Go around the 3rd Couple and lead up through both Couples to the top.
B 13-16: Cast off into the 2nd Couple’s place.</code>

Repeat down the line.  
Tune: White-Hall Minuet\\
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3DMHTLtxg


This lovely tune is named for the Palace of White Hall, which had grown larger than Versailles or the Vatican by the time it was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1698.

The Whitehall Minuet was published in 1709 by John Young in his tunebook Dancing Master, and in John Walsh’s Compleat Country Dancing Master, 1718.\\
https://fiddletails.com/2016/09/13/whitehall-minuet/