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|f_track=The Haughs of Cromdale.mp3
|f_track=The Kings Head.mp3
|f_pdf=Haughs of Cromdale.pdf
|f_pdf=The Kings Head.pdf
|f_artwork=Sir_John_Watson_Gordon_-_James_Hogg,_1770_-_1835._Poet;_'The_Ettrick_Shepherd'_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
|f_artwork=Armstrong.jpg
|f_tune_name=Haughs of Cromdale
|f_tune_name=The King's Head
|f_track_title=Haughs_of_Cromdale_(The)
|f_track_title=King's_Head_(1)_(The)
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/queens-own-highlanders Queen's Own Highlanders]
|f_played_by=[https://www.slippery-hill.com/source/tom-owens-wls-barn-dance-trio Tom Owens WLS Barn Dance Trio]
|f_notes=James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) - Portrait, 1830.
|f_notes=Mrs. Sarah Armstrong
|f_caption=The Grants, M'Kenzies, and M'Cays,{{break}}
|f_caption=Despite the story of the condemned man, the title probably has more to do with its association to the alternate titles Soldier's Joy (1) and Payday in the Army.
Soon as Montrose, they did espy,{{break}}
|f_source=[https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/kings-head Slippery Hill]  
They turn'd and fought most manfully,{{break}}
Upon the haughs of Cromdale.{{break}}
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/queens-own-highlanders/the-haughs-of-cromdale-medley Soundcloud]  
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|f_article=[[Haughs_of_Cromdale_(The) | '''Haughs of Cromdale''']]
|f_article=[[King's_Head_(1)_(The) | '''The King's Head''']]


'Haughs' are the low-lying ground along a river, in this case near Cromdale in Speyside. Fiddler-composer [[biography:Donald Grant|Donald Grant]] (c. 1760-1830's) of Elgin published an early instance of the tune giving it pride of place as the first tune in his c. 1790 collection, dedicated to Mrs. Col. Grant of Castle Grant.  
The King's Head was the name of many taverns in England, referred to from the 16th century on. One famous King's Head was in Southwark, an area that featured a competing establishment called The Queen's Head. Another King's Head inn at the corner of Chancery Lane, dating from the time of Edward VI, was the residence of Izaak Walton and appears in all his illustrated editions of his book The Compleat Anger, which he advertised to be "sold at his shopp in Fleet Street; under the King's Head tavern." Perhaps the oddest story connected to a King's Head establishment was regarding the tavern adjacent to Stationers Hall Court, accessed through a doorway that passersby would scarcely glance at. Through the door was "a long passage, at the end of which was a roomy tavern with quaint corners, and originally known by the sign of  the 'King's Head', at which time it was a fashionable coffee and chop-house. At the beginning of the 19th century the famous fat man, Daniel Lambert, took up his lodgings at this house, and here he held public receptions, at which visitors, for a modest fee, might look upon his fifty-two stone (728 lbs.) of human flesh. For years after Lambert had departed this life his portrait in oils hung upon the tavern walls, and his walking-stick was also preserved as a curiosity" (Hackwood, 1909). Charles Dickens (in '''Household Words''', vol. 12, 1855) writes that pleasure gardens and music halls had to be licensed in London in the last half of the 18th century, a license which had to be renewed annually at the Middlesex quarter sessions (although theatres such as Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Opera House were exempt, as they had special crown-licenses). Not surprisingly, this limited the number of venues. Ones that were licensed were "''Saddler's Wells, which has since grown into a temple of Shakespeare; another was Bagnigge Wells; a third was Rannelagh; while others were Marybone Gardens, the Bell and the Angel at Edmonton, the King's Head at Enfield, the Long Rooms at Hampsted, White Conduit House, Islington Spa, the Adam and Eve tea-garden, the Shepherd and Shepherdess, &c. Some of these had much celebrity in their day''."
 
It includes the epigram:
<blockquote>
''The Grants, M'Kenzies, and M'Cays,''<br>
''Soon as Montrose, they did espy,''<br>
''They turn'd and fought most manfully,''<br>
''Upon the haughs of Cromdale.''<br>
</blockquote>
 
Grant the composer noted that the tune was "Old" in his day. He references the battle at the Haughs of Cromdale on April 30 and May 1, 1690, following the Battle of Killiecrankie (1689), a defeat for the Jacobites who were led by Major-General Thomas Buchan.
 
The government forces under Sir Thomas Livingston, commander of the garrison at Inverness, were the victors. [[wikipedia:James Hogg|James Hogg]], the ‘Ettrick shepherd’, later collected a popular song about the defeat, published in his book '''Jacobite Relics of Scotland''' (1817).  
 
The song, however, is historically inaccurate and conflates two battles (Auldearn and Cromdale) separated by some 45 years<ref>Donald Grant may have been familiar with the song prior to the publication of it by Hogg, or, the epigram in Grant's volume may have been added for the 1820-21 edition. 
 
Montrose, whom he mentions in the epigram, was James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, who was hanged in Edinburgh in 1650 after his defeat at the Battle of Carbisdale. 
 
The song confuses him with a later Graham, ‘Bonnie Dundee’, who himself had died in 1689 at Killiecrankie. </ref>.  
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Revision as of 11:09, 5 April 2024



Despite the story of the condemned man, the title probably has more to do with its association to the alternate titles Soldier's Joy (1) and Payday in the Army.
The King's Head

Played by: Tom Owens WLS Barn Dance Trio
Source: Slippery Hill
Image: Mrs. Sarah Armstrong

The King's Head

The King's Head was the name of many taverns in England, referred to from the 16th century on. One famous King's Head was in Southwark, an area that featured a competing establishment called The Queen's Head. Another King's Head inn at the corner of Chancery Lane, dating from the time of Edward VI, was the residence of Izaak Walton and appears in all his illustrated editions of his book The Compleat Anger, which he advertised to be "sold at his shopp in Fleet Street; under the King's Head tavern." Perhaps the oddest story connected to a King's Head establishment was regarding the tavern adjacent to Stationers Hall Court, accessed through a doorway that passersby would scarcely glance at. Through the door was "a long passage, at the end of which was a roomy tavern with quaint corners, and originally known by the sign of the 'King's Head', at which time it was a fashionable coffee and chop-house. At the beginning of the 19th century the famous fat man, Daniel Lambert, took up his lodgings at this house, and here he held public receptions, at which visitors, for a modest fee, might look upon his fifty-two stone (728 lbs.) of human flesh. For years after Lambert had departed this life his portrait in oils hung upon the tavern walls, and his walking-stick was also preserved as a curiosity" (Hackwood, 1909). Charles Dickens (in Household Words, vol. 12, 1855) writes that pleasure gardens and music halls had to be licensed in London in the last half of the 18th century, a license which had to be renewed annually at the Middlesex quarter sessions (although theatres such as Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Opera House were exempt, as they had special crown-licenses). Not surprisingly, this limited the number of venues. Ones that were licensed were "Saddler's Wells, which has since grown into a temple of Shakespeare; another was Bagnigge Wells; a third was Rannelagh; while others were Marybone Gardens, the Bell and the Angel at Edmonton, the King's Head at Enfield, the Long Rooms at Hampsted, White Conduit House, Islington Spa, the Adam and Eve tea-garden, the Shepherd and Shepherdess, &c. Some of these had much celebrity in their day."

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