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QUEEN BESS'S DAME OF HONOUR. AKA - "Queen Besse's Dame of Honour." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1710-1728), and in rival London publishers Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book (1710). London musician Thomas Hammersley entered it into his music manuscript copybook of 1790.

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-'''QUEEN BESS'S DAME OF HONOUR.''' English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' (1710-1728), and in rival London publishers Walsh and Randall's '''The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book''' (1710). London musician Thomas Hammersley entered it into his music manuscript copybook of 1790.
+'''QUEEN BESS'S DAME OF HONOUR.''' AKA - "Queen Besse's Dame of Honour." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play5596.htm] (1710-1728), and in rival London publishers Walsh and Randall's '''The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book''' (1710). London musician Thomas Hammersley entered it into his music manuscript copybook of 1790.
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