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MILLEY'S BEQUEST. English, Morris Dance Tune (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A tune for a morris two-stick dance, collected in the village of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England's Cotswolds. The title is a refernce to a bequest made in the fifteenth century by Cannon Thomas Milley for the benefit of fifteen worthy old women of Lichfield.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 235. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988, vol. 2; No. 42, p. 21.

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