This is the entry page to my transcription of the Lovelace/Church manuscript, which also contains links to images of manuscript pages. I used these images, available at www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/scadance/MSEng1356/, created by Aaron Macks [upelluri@gmail.com], known in the SCA as GunDormr.
Transcription pointers and help by Gregory Blount.
To peruse the entire manuscript from page one, either start here, or from the "Intro Page" below.
| Intro Page | Contains a prolog, some figure explanations, and some signatures | |
| Dances: | Page | Is it in Playford, does it match, other notes |
| 1: Moll Peatley | P3 | Playford, 4th edition |
| 2: Noah's Flood | P4 | no match |
| 3: Tenn Pounde | P5 | Ten Pound Lass, Playford, 4th edition <- (incomplete) dance does not match |
| 4: The Milking Payle | P6 | Links to The Merry, Merry Milkmaids via the tune and broadsides, which is Playford 1st-16th editions <- dance does not match |
| 5: The Highway to Westminster | P7 | no match, but there is existing music for it, so it can be danced today |
| 6: Ladyes Piller | P9 | Playford 1st-8th editions Lady Spellor |
| 7: The Cherping of the Nightingall | P10 | Playford, 1st edition <- dance does not match |
| 8: The Wind Mille | P11 | no match |
| 9: The Gipsys | P13 | matches well with The Spanish Jepsie, Playford 1st-18th editions |
| 10: The Goddisses | P14 | Playford 1st edition |
| 11: Lightly Love | P16 | no match, but the tune to Light o' Love links to this via broadsides, so this can be danced today |
| 12: Trenchmore | P18 | Playford 2nd edition |
| 13: The Old Man with (...) | P21 | Playford 1st edition |
| 14: A Mayden Fayre | P24 | matches to Once I Loved a Maiden Fair, Playford 1st(+) edition |
| 15: Cuckles All a Row | P26 | Playford 1st edition |
| 16: Grayes Inn Maske | P29 | Playford 1st edition |
| 17: St Johns | P32 | matches to Dull Sir John, Playford 1st edition |
| 18: The Boone Companion | P36 | no match to Playford <- instructions seem to be complete, but can be finished by the elision theory |
| 19: Step Stately | P37 | Playford 1st edition <- incomplete |
| 20: The Picking of Stickes | P38 | Playford 1st edition |
| 21: Jack Pudding | P40 | Playford 1st edition |
| 22: Roses white, and roses red | P44 | Playford 1st edition |
| 23: Harts Ease | P46 | Playford 1st edition |
| 24: The F(T)umbling of J(T)one | P48 | no match |
| 25: Greenwood | P51 | Playford 1st edition |
| 26: Natly | P53 | no match |
| 27: A Helth to Betty | P55 | Playford 1st edition |
| 28: Bobbing Jone | P57 | Playford 1st edition |
| 29: Murry | P59 | no match |
| 30: Jogg On | P61 | Playford 1st edition |
| 31: Good Your Worship | P62 | no match |
| 32: The Fryer and the Nun | P65 | Playford 1st edition <- possibly incomplete |
| 9 dances with no matches in Playford, 23 dances with some match in Playford | ||
| 6 dances with no music, 26 dances with music: thus, this adds 2 totally "new" dances to the modern age (Boone Companion also exists in Sloane, and music has existed for some time for it) | ||
| First set of Poems | Contains the header phrase "Verses on several occurrences; 1649" | |
| Second set of Poems | Contains the Lovelace poem that supposedly names the manuscript. | |
Dafydd Cyhoeddwr, V3.0, Monday, March 3, 2014