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|f_track=Mr Isaacs Maggot.mp3
|f_track=Sir Roger De Coverley.mp3
|f_pdf=Mr.Isaac's Maggot.pdf
|f_pdf=Roger of Coverly.pdf
|f_artwork=Mr-isaac.jpg
|f_artwork=Sir Roger De Coverley.png
|f_tune_name=Mr. Isaac’s Maggot
|f_tune_name=Sir Roger de Coverley
|f_track_title=Mr. Isaac’s Maggot
|f_track_title=Sir Roger de Coverley
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/auburn_witch Auburn Witch]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/p-a-barn-dance Pump Action Band]
|f_notes=Mr. Isaac, painted by Louis Goupy. The original portrait is lost, but this engraving of it by George White was published in the early 18th century.
|f_notes=Sir Roger de Coverley and gypsies, 1840 engraving.
|f_caption=Sixteenth and seventeenth century country dance tunes sometimes had the word "maggot" in their titles, perhaps derived from Italian Maggiolatta or Italian May song, but used in England to mean a whim, fancy, plaything, 'trifle'--essentially an earworm.
|f_caption=Roger, so named from the Archbishop of York, was a person of renowned hospitality, since, at this day since, at this day, the obsolete known tune of 'Roger a Calverley' is referred to him, who, according to the custom of those times, kept his Minstrels, from that, their office, named Harpers, which became a family, and possessed lands till late years in and about Calverley called to this day Harpersroids and Harper's Spring.
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|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/p-a-barn-dance/sir-roger-de-coverley Soundcloud]
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|f_article=[[Mr. Isaac’s Maggot | '''Mr. Isaac’s Maggot''']]
|f_article=[[Sir Roger de Coverley | '''Sir Roger de Coverley''']]




Dance researcher Moira Goff has discovered that "Mr. Isaac" was in fact a Royal dancing master named Francis Thorpe, offering as proof the will of his uncle, Jerome Gahory, who previously occupied the post of Royal dancing master. Gahory left the residue of his English estate to "Francis Thorpe his nephew (known by the name of Isaac)."
The tune has had a long history in English country dance, retaining its popularity almost until the present-day. One source gives that the air is printed in Playford's '''Dancing Master''', 1650, p. 167 (though other sources say it did not appear until later editions of the '''Dancing Master''' starting in 1669).  


Francis was the product of Gahory's sister and "Mnsr. Isac", who had a reputation as one of the best dancing masters in Paris.  
Dr. Rimbault ('''Notes and Queries''', i. No. 8) gives the earliest printing as Playford’s '''Division Violin''' (1685). Kidson finds it first published in Henry Playford’s '''Dancing Master, 9th edition''' of 1695 (p. 167), printed with dance directions, and it was retained in the long-running '''Dancing Master''' series of editions through the 18th and final one of 1728 (then published by Playford's successor, John Young).  


Young Francis may have taken the name Isaac "as a compliment to his father as well as to show his lineage with its associated status."


After some time dancing in France, the younger "Mr. Isaac" removed to England, and is recorded as having danced in the English court masque '''Calisto''' in 1675. This Mr. Isaac died in 1681, and Goff concludes that references to "Mr. Isaac" after this must refer to his son. John Essex, in his '''Preface to The Dancing Master''' (1728) recorded:
The tune is mentioned in an odd political tract entitled '''A Second Tale of a Tub: or the History of Robert Powell, the Puppet-Show-man''' (1715).  
 
A crowd of spectators was present for an organ performance, at the conclusion of which the various factions in the audience began to call for their favorite tunes. Amongst the crowed were:
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''The late Mr. Isaac, who had the Honour to teach and instruct our late most excellent and gracious Queen when a young Princess,''
''a parcel of brawny fellows with Mantles about their shoulders, and blew caps about their heads. Next to them sate a company of clownish look’d Fellows with leather breeches, and hob nail’d shoes...the great booby hod nailed fellows whose breeches and lungs seem’d to be of the same leather, cried out for “Cheshire Rounds,” “Roger of Coverley,” “Joan’s Placket,” and “Northern Nancy.” Those with the Blew bonnets had very good voices, and split their Wems in hollowing out—“Bonny Dundee”—“Valiant Jockey,” “Sauny was a Bonny Lad,and “’Twas within a Furlong of Edinburgh Town.
''first gained the Character and afterwards supported that Reputation of being the prime Master in England for forty Years together:''
''He taught the first Quality with Success and Applause, and was justly stiled the Court Dancing-Master, therefore might truly deserve''
''to be called the Gentleman Dancing-Master.'' (p. xi)<ref>This quote and information above on Francis Thorpe accessed on 08.07.2020 from Moira Goff's blog "England's Royal Dancing Masters 1660-1714", danceinhistory.com [https://danceinhistory.com/category/dancers-dancing-masters/]</ref>
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File:Sir Roger De Coverley.mp3 Sir Roger de Coverley


The tune has had a long history in English country dance, retaining its popularity almost until the present-day. One source gives that the air is printed in Playford's Dancing Master, 1650, p. 167 (though other sources say it did not appear until later editions of the Dancing Master starting in 1669).

Dr. Rimbault (Notes and Queries, i. No. 8) gives the earliest printing as Playford’s Division Violin (1685). Kidson finds it first published in Henry Playford’s Dancing Master, 9th edition of 1695 (p. 167), printed with dance directions, and it was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series of editions through the 18th and final one of 1728 (then published by Playford's successor, John Young).


The tune is mentioned in an odd political tract entitled A Second Tale of a Tub: or the History of Robert Powell, the Puppet-Show-man (1715).

A crowd of spectators was present for an organ performance, at the conclusion of which the various factions in the audience began to call for their favorite tunes. Amongst the crowed were:

a parcel of brawny fellows with Mantles about their shoulders, and blew caps about their heads. Next to them sate a company of clownish look’d Fellows with leather breeches, and hob nail’d shoes...the great booby hod nailed fellows whose breeches and lungs seem’d to be of the same leather, cried out for “Cheshire Rounds,” “Roger of Coverley,” “Joan’s Placket,” and “Northern Nancy.” Those with the Blew bonnets had very good voices, and split their Wems in hollowing out—“Bonny Dundee”—“Valiant Jockey,” “Sauny was a Bonny Lad,” and “’Twas within a Furlong of Edinburgh Town.”

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