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11 10 ‘Jigg’, D major; A, B clefs; = no. 3.
12 11 [minuet or song tune]; G minor; A clef; VdGS, Anon, no. 223.
12 12 ‘Trumpett’; D major; B clef; = melody down an octave of Henry
Purcell, ‘Fourth Act Tune’ from Dioclesian (1690), Z627/24.
Probably copied from Ayres … for the Theatre (1697).
ITEM III (MU. MS 647C). Format: originally two bifolia. One (pp. 13-14, 17-18)
is complete, but only the top half of the first leaf (pp. 15-16), and the stub of the
second (after p. 16) remain of the other. Watermark: as Item II. Copying date:
probably after 1719 (date of probable source of nos. 17 and 19).
Hand B
13 13 ‘Integer vitae scelerisque purus’; D minor; A clef with text; not the
same as D&M, no. 1827.
13 14 ‘Skolding wyfes’; D minor; B clef; = Hotman, ‘Ballet’; VdGS,
Hotman no. 36; RT448.
13 15 ‘M r . Hills delight’; F major; A clef; VdGS, Anon, no. 224.
14 Blank
15 16 [bouree]; D minor; 2 Tr, B clefs in score; incomplete.
Hand C
16 17 ‘Royall and Faire’; G major; Tr clef; = no. 17. Melody of ‘Royal
and fair great Willy’s dear blessing’; D&M, no. 2835; BBB, 619-
620; apparently copied from Pills, i. 314-315.
[stub between pp. 16 and 17]
Hand B
17 18 ‘Royall & Fair’; G major; A clef; = no. 16 down an octave; VdGS,
Anon, no. 225.
18 Blank
ITEM IV (MU. MS 647D). Format: first leaf of bifolium that is completed by pp.
27-28. Watermark: cursive ‘HG’; probably late seventeenth century. Copying date:
probably after 1703 (date of likely source of nos. 19-27).
Hand B
19 19 ‘Preludio’; A minor; A clef; = Nicola Matteis senior, Ayrs for the
Violin [AV], i (1676), p. 1; violin part down an octave; VdGS,
Anon, no. 226. Possibly copied from the 1703 reprint (see no.
63).
19 20 ‘Giga’; F major; A clef; = Matteis, AV, i, p. 20; violin part down an
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