"The Spaniard" is an English country dance tune in 6/8 time in G major. This is not the same tune as "The Spaniard" in The Dancing Master. The title refers perhaps to the Spaniards, a fashionable garden resort in 18th century England located on the northern boundary of Hempstead Heath. An engraving dated 1745 shows it to have been laid out with a formal arrangement of trees and turf introduced to England by the Dutch William of Orange. It was said to have been built on the site of a lodge at the entrance to the Bishop of London’s domain and that the lodge was once tenanted by a family connected with the Spanish embassy; another version attributes to a Spaniard the conversion of the lodge into a house of entertainment. The establishment’s greatest hour came during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London (1780) in which the famous lawyer Lord Mansfield’s house in Bloomsbury Square was sacked and burned, the rioters then crying “To Ken Wood!” Ken Wood was another of Mansfield’s residences, right next to the Spaniard and directly along the route of the mob. The Spaniard’s publican, thinking quickly and with cool nerves, invited the rioters to refresh themselves and threw open his house and cellars for their entertainment. Secretly, however, he dispatched a rider to summon the Horse Guards from their barracks. Ken Wood helped by setting up tubs of strong ale outside their premises and by the time the small detachment of troops arrived the rioters were so disorganized they were compelled to flee. It was printed in Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes (1986), Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951), Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford’s Dancing Master (1985) and Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984).