Annotation:Shaddie (The)
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SHADDIE, THE. AKA – “Shaddle,” “Miss Ray," "Miss Ray's Fancy.” English, Jig (6/8 time). F Major (Skillern & Challoner): D Major (Cahusac). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody (in the key of B flat) is given as “Shaddie,” with “Miss Ray” as an alternate title, in the 1820 music manuscript collection of Frank Johnson, inscribed “Presented to Mrs. A. Rush, by Frank Johnson, a Black Musician” [Historical Society of Philadelphia]. The same title and alternate title appear with dance figures in dancing master Thomas Wilson’s Treasures of the Terpsichore, or Companion for the Ballroom (London, 1809).
Regarding the alternate title, "Miss Ray," it is not known who "Miss Ray" was. However, a Miss Martha Ray was a stage singer and actress who met with a tragic end of much notoriety in 1779 in the lobby of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London:
The father of Miss Ray, the singer, and mistress of old Lord Sandwich, is said to have been a well-known staymaker in Holywell Street, now Booksellers’ Row. His daughter was apprenticed in Clerkenwell, from whence the musical lord took her to load her with a splendid shame. On the day she went to sing at Covent Garden in “Love in a Village,” Hackman, who had left the army for the church, waited for her carriage at the Cannon Coffee-house in Cockspur Street. At the door of the theatre, by the side of the Bedford Coffee-house, Hackman rushed out, and as Miss Ray was being handed from her carriage he shot her through the head, and then attempted his own life[290]. Hackman was hanged at Tyburn, and he died declaring that shooting Miss Ray was the result of a sudden burst of frenzy, for he had planned only suicide in her presence.[1]
- ↑ Walter Thornbury, Haunted London, 1880, p. 160.