Annotation:Islington Wells

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ISLINGTON WELLS. English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in all four editions of The Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1718-1728), published in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. It also was printed by Walsh and Randall in their The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book (London, 1710) and in Walsh and Hare's The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719).

The mineral wells at Islington were also called New Tunbridge Wells.

These springs were discovered by a person of the name of Sadler in 1683, and the spot is still known as Sadler's Wells, a theatre now occupying the site. According to Cunningham, a pamphlet was published in 1684, giving an account of the discovery, with the virtues of the water,

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