A. Shaw 2009
Recording: bloomsbury_market-bsbnd22.mp3.zip
bloomsbury_market_061-fh04.mp3.zip

3C longways version
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkPbeZTVUso

   1st M RHT 2nd W
   then 2nd M LHT
   then 3rd M RHT
   then cast back to place
   1st W LHT 2nd M
   then RHT 2nd W
   then LHT 3rd W
   then cast back to place
   M2 hey with C1
   C1 lead down middle and cast up 
   W2 hey with C1 who finish with casting off.

A. Shaw, 2009
DM 1; 12-18, Walsh 1718-1750,
Three couple set
as “Queens-borough,” DM Ti: 1-4, Walsh 1711, 1728

Al 1-2 Ist man and 2nd woman right-hand turn once around, 
       1st man turning out over his left shoulder for the next figure.
   3-4 Ist and 2nd men left-hand turn once and a half around.
   5-6 Ist and 3rd men right-hand turn once and a half around, 
       1st man finishing in 3rd place facing out.
   7-8 Ist man move up the outside of the set to original place, 
       2nd and 3rd men turning right as they move back down into original places.
A2 1-2 Ist woman and 2nd man left-hand turn once around, 
       1st woman turning out over her right shoulder for the next figure.
   3-4 Ist and 2nd women right-hand turn once and half around.
   5-6 1stand 3rd women left-hand turn once and a half around, 
       1st woman finishing in 3rd place facing out.
   7-8 Ist woman move up the outside of the set to original place, 
       2nd and 3rd women turning left as they move back down
       into original places. All home.
Bl 1-4 Heys at each end, thus: 2nd man move down into hey for three with the 3s, 
       passing 3rd woman by the left shoulder to begin, 
       2nd woman move up into hey for three with the 1s, 
       passing 1st man by the left shoulder to begin.
   5-6 Is lead down through standing 2s and cast back to places.
   7-8 Partners two-hand turn once around.
B2 1-4 Heys at each end, thus: 2nd man move up into hey for three with the 1s, 
       passing 1st woman by the right shoulder to begin, 
       2nd woman move down into hey for three with the 3s, 
       passing 3rd man by right shoulder to begin.
   5-6 Is cast down into 3rd place, while 2s and 3s go forward to meet partners, 
       then lead up one place.
   7-8 Partners two-hand turn once around.

Bloomsbury Market

   Man 1 right hand turn Woman 2, 
   then left hand turn Man 2, 
   then right hand turn Woman 3 (the next woman 1), 
   and lead up to place behind neighbour
   Woman 1 the same
   Man 2 hey with C1
   C1 lead down and cast to place
   Two hand turn partner
   Woman 2 hey with C1
   C1 cast, C2 lead up
   Two hand turn partner

Bloomsbury Market, first called Southampton Market, was first opened in 1662 as part of the Russell family’s development of the area around their Bloomsbury estate. The market was not a success, but the engraver Robert White, who may have been known to the Playford family, lived near there until his death in 1704.

Walsh republished the song in song anthologies through the middle 1710s. D’Urfey’s slight but charming lyric depicts a Scottish gallant conquered at cards and in love by Phillida; their playfully amorous combat is crowned by matrimony:

• Thus Phillida with Beauty, Wit, and Art, :
• His Money won, who had before his Heart;
• Until the laughing God of Love,
• Pack'd the Cards and made ‘em prove:
• All combin'd to take poor Jockeys weak part:
• No kind Knave,
• The Charmer now cou'd have,
• Her lover too Recover'd too,
• More than lost before too,
• Till to please them love chang'd the wrangling Game,
• To Wedlock Joys, and Jockey was her Pam.
• (Thomas D’ Urfey- Wit and Mirth, Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy. \t 331)

“Pam” was an abbreviation for “Pamphile” or “Pamphilus,” the trump card in the popular trick-taking game of Lanterloo (“mournival’ and “blaze” are hands of four face cards); generally, the “Pam” in Lanterloo was the Knave or Jack of Clubs, often depicted as that great warrior and lover Lancelot.