All in
But you.
(Chester, 1904.)
MUSIC
Although Cheshire cannot be described as a musical county, yet it has no reason to be ashamed of its past musical history.
“Cheshire Rounds” was a celebrated tune and dance—sometimes danced by a couple (whose gyrations resembled the movements of the sun and moon) and sometimes by a single person. The only known portrait of Doggett (who founded the celebrated waterman’s badge) shows him dancing the “Cheshire Round.”
Miss Stanley writes from Alderley Park—
Sep. 8, 1798.
We had yesterday what is generally called a harvest home supper, but here a “shutting.” Old Peter danced the Cheshire Round on the table after supper with Charlotte Alcock, one of the women.
A play-bill of the time of William III. shows how popular the dance was then—