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''Printed sources'': Thomson ('''Thompson Twenty Fours Country Dances for the Year 1767'''), 1767; p. 36. Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3'''), 1773; No. 83.
''Printed sources'': Simons ('''Kentish Hops: Kentish Country Dances'''). Thomson ('''Thompson Twenty Fours Country Dances for the Year 1767'''), 1767; p. 36. Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3'''), 1773; No. 83.
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MARGATE ROUT. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1767 and Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773), and later in Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775). It also was entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (Norwich, Conn.), as were several of the tunes from the Thompsons' collection.

Margate is a seaside town in north western Kent, famous as a resort for vacationing Londoners for several centuries (see Annotation:Margate Assembly for more.

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Printed sources: Simons (Kentish Hops: Kentish Country Dances). Thomson (Thompson Twenty Fours Country Dances for the Year 1767), 1767; p. 36. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 83.

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