“Wooden Shoes” first appears in the 8th edition of Henry Playford’s Apollos’s Banquet, Choice New Tunes, Ayres, and Jiggs (1701), under the title “The Wooden Shew Dance”. It next appears in Playford’s The Dancing Master, 12th edition(1703). It was retained in all subsequent editions through the 18th (1728). It was picked up by the Walsh’s for their own The Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718, 1731) and by Johnson for Wright’s Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol 2 (1742). The title is given variously as “Wooden Shoos”, “Wooden Shooes” or “Wooden Shoes”. As “Wooden Shoes or Bart. Fair” dance instructions appear in the commonplace book of James Alexander, under the heading “List of Dances in N.Y. 1730”.