Hunsdon House
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
The melody dates to 1657 when it was published by Playford in<br> The English Dancing Master, third edition (1657). It was subsequently<br> published in each edition through the 18th and final edition of 1728.<br> London publisher John Walsh also printed it in his<br> The Compleat Country Dancing Master of 1718, 1731 and 1754. <br> The Hertforshire Hunsdon House is much older, having begun as a<br> brick tower in 1447 by Sir William Oldhall. King Henry VIII purchased<br> Hunsdon House in 1525 and for the next decade greatly expanded the<br> structure into a Tudor house of palatial proportions. Henry's children<br> Edward, Princess Mary and Elizabeth resided in the home. It is said<br> that Mary taught her younger sister Elizabeth how to play cards at<br> Hunsdon House. When Mary became Queen she presented the house and the<br> Lordship of Hunsdon to her maternal cousin, Henry Carey, in 1559,<br> but it went into decline into the next century.<br> It was also printed in Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English<br> Folk Dance Airs (1951).<br> It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master, vol 2 by The Telemann Society.<br>
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