Annotation:Carpenter’s Maggot
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CARPENTER'S MAGGOT. English, Jig (6/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody and dance directions appear in London publisher Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 11th edition (1701), and was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series through the 18th and last edition of 1728 (then published by John Young).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Walsh (Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth), London, 1740; No. 113.
Recorded sources: