Annotation:Putney Bowling Green
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PUTNEY BOWLING GREEN. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Putney Bowling Green was, from about 1690 to the close of the 18th century, a fashionable place of resort. Walpole, in 1750, relates that the gentleman highwayman, James McLean, quarreled with and challenged an officer for disputing his rank at Putney Bowling Green. McLean was hanged two months later at Tyburn, and the incident contributed to a decline in the popularity of the resort. Bowling Green House was converted into a private residence, and sold to Prime Minister William Pitt in the beginning of the 19th century. He died there in 1806.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Johnson (A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4), 1748; No. 187, p. 94.
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