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Oxford Ramble

Speed the Plough

Wassail

Jack-in-the-Green

A Taste of Ale

Six for Gold

Knock at the Knocker, Ring at the Bell

The Robber Bird

Three Quarter Time

The 25th


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York Winter Assemblies

The Robber Bird track 11

From the manuscript of George Spencer, c1831 from Leeds, via the Village Music Project website. It presumably refers to the winter season of “quadrille dances and card parties” held in York Assembly Rooms in the early nineteenth century.

 

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