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°Dances° The measures °Measures to
daunce./°
The Pavine
Two Singles and a Doble Forwarde/ Two
Singles side and a Doble back/.
fower tymes over all.
Turqueloney
A Doble foreward and a Doble back fower tymes/ Two Singles and a Doble forwarde and a Doble back twyse./ A Doble forward and a Doble back fower tymes./
The Earle of Essex measure
A Doble forwarde and a Single back fower tymes./ Two Singlees syde and a Doble forwarde and a Doble back. All ouer agayne
Interuell
A Doble foreward and a Doble back/ Tow Singles and a Doble rownde bothe wayes/ A Doble forward and a Doble back three tymes Two Singles and a Doble rownde both wayes
The ould Almayne
Two Singles and a Doble rownde both wayes Fower dobles foreward./ Two Singles and a Doble rownde bothe waies./
The Queenes Almaine
A Doble forward, & a Doble back/ 2 Singles face to face and cast of a Doble rownde twyse. 4 Dobles foreward The first part agayne.
Galia Almaine
Two Singles and a Doble forewarde and a Single backe twyse Part two. Single syde and honoure./ Two Singles and a Doble in each others place. Then honoure and imbrace/ begin at parte, Two Singles syde and honoure./ and go to your end |
The black Almaine
Fower Dobles forewarde./ Parte on Doble back thone from theother./ One Doble forwarde to meete agayne, A Doble syde waies on your left hand, and a Doble back on your right hand. The men first begin two Singles side, and on Doble rounde. The women do as much One Doble ouer into each others place in handes, then travis 4 foreward, One Doble into your owne place agayne, then travis 4 back, parte a Doble back thon from thother./ One Doble forwarde to meete agayne and honoure.
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The Hutton family was resident at Marske Hall.
Record title: Memorandum Book of Sir Timothy Hutton
Repository:
NYCRO
Shelfmark: ZAZ 75–76
Repository location: Northallerton
The sequence of eight dances which so interested Sir Timothy Hutton (1569–1629) that he copied out their choreography had by the early seventeenth century become a standard component of the masques, especially those associated with the Inns of Court. The sequence came to be known as 'the old measures.' At least eight manuscripts contain the same list, or one very similar to it (Ian Payne, The Almain in Britain, c.1549-c.1675: A Dance Manual from Manuscript Sources (London, 2016), 7–45, 168–210; James Stokes and Ingrid Brainerd, '"The olde Measures" in the West Country: John Willoughby's Manuscript,' REED Newsletter 17.2 (1992), 1–10; John Ward, 'Apropos "The olde Measures",' REED Newsletter 18.1 (1993), 2–21; Andrew J. Sabol (ed), Four Hundred Songs and Dances from the Stuart Masque (Providence, 1982), 15, 374–75).
early 17th-c.; English; paper; single sheet; 185mm x 135mm; unnumbered.