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Mention of the tune appears in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1750 that "The Highland Laddie written long since by Allan Ramsay, and now sung at Ranelagh and all the other gardens; often fondly encor'd, and sometimes ridiculously hiss'd," for, as Emmerson (1971) points out, the rising of 1745 of Bonnie Prince Charlie was fresh in the minds of many at the time.

However, by the end of the century that memory had dimmed to the extent that Gow noted in his Repository (Part Second, 1802) "The Quick step (sic) of the gallant 42nd Regiment (The Royal Highlanders, or, more popularly, The Black Watch). It was performed when the Regiment was reviewed by His Majesty at Ashford, May 7, 1802.

David Murray (Music of the Scottish Regiments, Edinburgh, 1994, p. 178) writes: "A journalist at the 1845 Queen's Birthday Parade commented that the Scots Guards marched past to 'The national, but mediocre melody 'Will ye go to Inverness?'-there are several versions of the song-and he compared it unfavorably with the splendid music played by the Coldstream Guards.

The same, it must be said, holds good today. Consisting as it does of two simple eight-bar phrases, each repeated, 'Highland Laddie' can become monotonous when, for instance, a battalion in column or route has to be played past." Still, it has the ability to stir: a piper led the British invasion of Normandy's Sword beach playing the "Highland Laddie."

It is still played on ceremonial occasions. In the 19th century "Highland Laddie" was the march-past in quarter-column of all the Highland regiments in the British army^[1].

...more at: Highland Laddie - full Score(s) and Annotations

↑ Walter Wood, "The Romance of Regimental Marches", Pall Mall Magazine, vol. 9, 1898, pp. 421-430.

[1] Walter Wood, "The Romance of Regimental Marches", Pall Mall Magazine, vol. 9, 1898, pp. 421-430.

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-|f_notes= Portrait of Edward VI of England, seated, wearing a gown lined in fur (ermine or lynx) over a crimson doublet with the collar of the Order of the Garter and holding a Bible.
+|f_notes= Way hay & away we go, Bonnie Laddie, Hieland Laddie.
-|f_caption=The first record of the tune and dance is in an account of the Christmas festivities at the court of Edward VI of England in 1551, where a list of expenses for the year’s Lord of Misrule (the character responsible for overseeing the celebrations) included, for his dancers, the cost of thre garments of sarsenett with iij payre of sloppes of owde store, for them that daunsed trenchemore.
+|f_caption=A version of the melody appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript (in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle), inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734.
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-The dance featured a number of ‘tricks’ or ‘capers’ and seems to have been a large, boisterous activity. Thomas Deloney, writing in his work '''The Gentle Craft, Part II''' (London, c. 1598), describes a character who “like one dauncing the trench more he stampt up and downe the yard, holding his lips in his hands.”
+Mention of the tune appears in the '''Gentleman's Magazine''' for 1750 that "The Highland Laddie written long since by Allan Ramsay, and now sung at Ranelagh and all the other gardens; often fondly encor'd, and sometimes ridiculously hiss'd," for, as Emmerson (1971) points out, the rising of 1745 of Bonnie Prince Charlie was fresh in the minds of many at the time.
-It was mentioned in a 1564 morality play by William Bulleyn, where a minstrel was described as "dancing Trenchmore”; William Sampson’s '''The Vow Breaker''' (1636) gives: “We had a Wedding to day and the young fry tickle Trench-more.”
+However, by the end of the century that memory had dimmed to the extent that Gow noted in his '''Repository''' (Part Second, 1802) "The Quick step (sic) of the gallant 42nd Regiment (The Royal Highlanders, or, more popularly, The Black Watch). It was performed when the Regiment was reviewed by His Majesty at Ashford, May 7, 1802.
-Some time after its introduction the dance was sufficiently common as to attract allusion in both literature and common usage—any unrestrained, wild activity was likely to provoke comparison with ‘dancing Trenchmore’, and, on a more sinister note, one recorded letter threatens that a man will be made to talk by being suspended so that his feet barely touch the ground, so that he will ‘dance Trenchmore’ in his agony (see Donnolly).
+David Murray ('''Music of the Scottish Regiments''', Edinburgh, 1994, p. 178) writes: "A journalist at the 1845 Queen's Birthday Parade commented that the Scots Guards marched past to 'The national, but mediocre melody 'Will ye go to Inverness?'-there are several versions of the song-and he compared it unfavorably with the splendid music played by the Coldstream Guards.
-Trenchmore is given by John Playford as the title of a dance, however, as Dean-Smith & Nicol point out:
+The same, it must be said, holds good today. Consisting as it does of two simple eight-bar phrases, each repeated, 'Highland Laddie' can become monotonous when, for instance, a battalion in column or route has to be played past." Still, it has the ability to stir: a piper led the British invasion of Normandy's Sword beach playing the "Highland Laddie."
-<blockquote>
-''The word is used elsewhere as the name for a kind of dance with an under-and-over movement''
+It is still played on ceremonial occasions. In the 19th century "Highland Laddie" was the march-past in quarter-column of all the Highland regiments in the British army<ref>Walter Wood, "The Romance of Regimental Marches", '''Pall Mall Magazine, vol. 9''', 1898, pp. 421-430.</ref>.
-''(like 'Grimstock' or the roll-figure of certain sword-dances) or danced under and over the furniture''
-''through the hall and kitchen; the word is often used in the literature of the period:--"Capering a''
-''morrisca or trenchmore": "Like one dancing the trenchmore he stampt up and down, holding his hips in''
-''his hands," "Among a number of these contrey dances I did light on such a Galliard as had a tricke''
-''(caper) above trenchmore", while 'The West-country Jigg' or 'A trenchmore galliard' to the tune''
-''of 'Up with Aley' in the Roxburgh Ballads described a country gathering like "Come Lasses and lads" as''
-''the wedding of the Lasses of Trenchmore Lee''<ref>Margaret Dean-Smith & E.J. Nicol, “The Dancing Master: 1651-1728: Part III. “Our Country Dances.” Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol. 4, No. 6 (Dec., 1945), p. 226. </ref>.
-</blockquote>
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