Annotation:Four and Twenty Highlandmen (1)

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FOUR AND TWENTY HIGHLANDMEN. Scottish, Reel. The melody appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript, 1734, inscribed "A Collection of the best Highland Reels written by David Young, W.M. & Accomptant." The MS, in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle, is sometimes called the "Duke of Perth MS."

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