St. Martin's Lane
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
Until the time of James I, St. Martin's Lane was a country lane<br> linking the churches of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. Giles-in-the-Fields;<br> as such it was probably in existence at the beginning of the 13th century.<br> St. Martin's Lane is now a street in Covent Garden in Central London<br> which still runs from the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, after<br> which it is named, near Trafalgar Square northwards to Long Acre.<br> At its northern end, it becomes Monmouth Street.<br> In the late 17th and first half of the 18th century the residential<br> part of the lane seems to have become a fashionable situation for<br> doctors and artists.<br> In the 18th century St. Martin's Lane was noted for the Academy<br> founded by William Hogarth and later for premises of cabinet-makers and<br> "upholsterers" such as Thomas Chippendale, who moved to better premises<br> there in 1753.<br> This tune may originally have been a theatre tune by Henry Purcell.<br> It was used in John Gay's Beggar's Opera.<br> It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master, vol. 2<br> by The Telemann Society and Country Capers by The<br> New York Renaissance Band.<br>
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