Longman & Broderip, and Preston both published dances with this name but their figures do not match.

Wilcock's figure appears to match, but the scan I have is missing half the dance.

In The Excelsior Manual of Dancing, Glasgow, ~1872 Wallace writes:

1. The first couple turn with right hands and cast off, turn with left hands and cast off, (8 bars)
2. Down the middle and up again, (8 bars)
3. Set at corners and reel, (16 bars)

Also found in Kate Hughes's manuscript, Dancing Book, Ireland, 1867.

1. The top couple turn with rights and cast of a couple turn with left hands (8 bars)
2. Lead down the centre up (8)
3. Set at corners and reell (16)

The RSCDS attributes this to Mitchell's A Guide to Ball Room Dancing, a work I haven't found yet. The earliest I have found are the following:

D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, he writes:

First and second ladies join hands, at same time first and second gents. join hands.

Then advance and retire, and cross over to each other's places, ladies passing under the gent.'s arms.

Advance and retire, then cross to places, ladies passing under gent.'s arms.

Top couple down centre and back.

First and second couples pousette.

Repeat.

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Also in Skinner writes:

Arrange the dancers as usual.

First and second ladies join hands, advance and retire with Quadrille step.

First and second gentlemen do the same at the same time. They re-advance, the ladies passing under the gentlemen's arms.

This is repeated, the gentlemen going under the ladies' arms

First lady and opposite gentleman then go dow the centre, back, and pousette.

Repeat.

Rory o' More has a tune of its own bearing the same name.

A quite different dance with this name appeared in the US in 1858 (Elias Howe, Boston). It seems likely to me that a dance appeared before 1897 in Scotland, but I haven't found any earlier sources.

Kate Hughes's manuscript, Dancing Book, Ireland, 1867, contains yet another version of the figure.

My copy of Book 2 claims this was devised by the Earl of Dunmore, but later sources seem unsure. The The Thistle has an article on its origins.

The RSCDS numbers couples clockwise (while modern square dance numbers them counter clockwise).

Arthur Miller, Leeds, 1900 writes:

1. All join hands in circle, and turn round to places.
2. Gentlemen take hold of partner's hand, and ladies give hands across and round, gentlemen give left hands across and back to places.
3. All set and turn partners.
4. Grand chain

Please see SCDDB for a discussion of the provenance of this dance.

An early version of this dance may be found in D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, from ~1897:

16 Bars of Music 2-4 Time, and 16 Bars of Music, Strathspey Time.

The top couple going down the dance commence always at the gent's side. Each gent, in turn crosses over to partner, and always have partners on right hand before commencing.

Top lady cross over to partner.

Second Gent. cross over to partner.

First and second couples rights and lefts.

Second gent. down the centre with the two ladies arm-in-arm, top gent. following behind.

Ladies change to top gent., lead up to top of dance arm-in-arm, with ladies, second gent, following behind.

Gents. face partners, ladies outside gents inside, back to back.

Set to partners (eight bars of music, Strathspey), then reel four across the dance, second gent, finishing at the gent.'s side, second lady at ladies' side, and pass up 1 couple.

Top couple repeat with third couple, etc.

On a second chord before the dance begins, the first lady moves into the second man's place. The second man into the second lady's place, and the second lady into the first lady's place. This is like a counter-clockwise becket dance with everyone standing on the same side of the set as his/her partner (ladies on their partner's right).

At the end of the first iteration (bars 31-32), during the reel, the first lady moves into the third man's place. The third man into the third lady's place and the third lady into where you'd expect the first lady to be (the original place of the second lady).

The step suggest for the setting is Forward on right, hop; back on left, hop; step behind with right, step left, right and hop.

Common name for dances; Wright, Walsh, Straight, Campbell, Howe and Wilcock all have figures for it, but I have found none which seems to match this one.

Lowe writes:

First couple turn round to the right, and set opposite to each other in the middle of the Dance (4 Bars) Again round to the right, the Lady going between the second and third Gentlemen, and the Gentlemen between the second and third Ladies (4 Bars) Six hands round and back again (8 Bars) The Lady between the two Gentlemen, and the Gentleman between the two Ladies, advance and retire. (4 Bars) The Gentleman who commenced the Dance, then turns his partner to her own side. (2 Bars) And all clap their hands, counting 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 (2 Bars) Then the three Ladies on their own side, and the three Gentlemen on theirs go three hands round. (4 Bars) Then commence the Figure again.

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Common tune for dancing in both the UK and the US; Wilson, Preston, Cahusac, Bland & Weller, Smyth, Hill, Howe, Washburn, Squire, and Schell all have figures set to it, but most do not seem to match this figure.

However Joseph Lowe's version seems a good match.

First and second couples, giving right hands across, chassie round. (4 Bars) Back again giving left hands. (4 Bars) First couple down the middle and up again. (8 Bars) Set and turn corners. (8 Bars) Set to partners in the middle and turn around. (8 Bars)

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The couples stand in fours across the room, all facing the top, except the first two couples, who face down. Women on the right of their partners (See Fig.)

MUSIC	DESCRIPTION
Bars.
1-4	Couples 1 and 4 dance four hands across with right hands.
5-8	And back again with left hands.
9-12	Couples 2 and 3 dance four hands across with right hands.
13-16	And back again with left hands.
17-24	All four couples set twice and turn partners with both hands.
25-28	All four couples, partners facing each other and joining both hands, slip across to one another's places, men passing back to back.
29-32	Slip across back to places, women passing back to back.
33-36	{ First and third couples dance four hands round to the left. Second and fourth couples dance four hands round to the left.
37-40	The same couples giving left hands, dance four hands across back to places.
41-43	All four couples advance (two steps) and retire (one step).
44	Give three claps with the hands.
45-48	Couples 1 and 2 dancing down the dance, pass under the arms of couples 3 and 4, who are dancing up.
	Repeat, with next two couples, and do the same figures with every line until they arrive at the bottom of the dance. As each line reaches top or bottom of the set, change to correct side of partners and stand during one turn of the dance.
	NOTE.— This dance can also be done in groups of four in a circle in which case bars 9-16 are omitted.

Collected locally.

(I believe this to be the original text as printed in 1925, subsequent revisions of the book use different words but describe the same figure.)

If you look at the Scottish Country Dance Database and Dictionary they both claim the four face four version of the dance should be done round the room as well, but the book shows a longways dance with four lines of two couples each, not a round the room dance. In his The Modern Dancing Master, Chivers, London, 1822 describes dancing four face four dances round the room. He calls this a Chivonian Circle.

The (R)SCDS did not say how many times the dance should be repeated. For a four line dance the traditional number would be nine repetitions leaving everyone where they started, but the SCDS is more likely to follow their own methods and only repeat the dance 8 times (leaving the bottom two lines in the wrong places).

In it's 2008 revision of Book 2, the RSCDS attributes this dance to Lowe's Selection of Popular Country Dances, ~1850. Lowe actually publishes two different figures, one which he teaches and which he claims to be the original version, and one which everyone else in Edinburgh dances. Lowe's "Original" version is unlike any other version I've found (nobody else has the dancers clapping, ever), while the other version seems more like the other contemporary versions I've found. The (R)SCDS chose Lowe's "Original" as the basis for their dance.

Lowe writes:

ANY number of couples can join in this Dance, arranging themselves four and four across the room, and all facing the top except the first couple, who face the other way, the Ladies standing on the right of their partners, thus-

1st Couple,	L. G. L. G. 0 + 0 +
2nd Couple,	G. L. G. L. + 0 + 0
3rd Couple,	G. L. G. L. + 0 + 0

Each line as they arrive at the top, face about to be ready to commence.

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Original Figure, as danced by Mr. Lowe's Pupils.

The couples on the right of each line, at angular corners, do hands across and back again to places (8 bar); the couples on the left of each line do the same (8 bars); all eight set and turn partners (8 bars); all eight gallopade across each other, the couples on the right of each line passing in front (4 bars) back again, the other couple passing in front (4 bars). The couples opposite to each other go hands four round (4 bars), all giving left hands, do hands across back again (4 bars); all eight advance and retire, and give three claps with the hands (4 bars); then the couples dancing down the dance pass under the arms of those dancing up (4 bars); then commence the figure with the next couples; then do the same figure with every line till they arrive at the end of the dance, then face about and dance up again.

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I think Lowe wants the top couples to pass under the arches made by the bottom as couples, rather than passing by the right, as is the modern method. Lowe also has people do a couples mad robin along their own line, rather than a couples do-si-do with the people opposite.

Joseph Lowe did not suggest dancing it as a round the room dance. The earliest source I have for that is in Albert W. Newman's A Complete Practical Guide to Modern Society Dancing, Philadelphia, 1903 who wrote:

NOTE. — This waiting, however, can be avoided by placing the couples in a complete circle. It is then advisable to arrange but two couples in each set facing each other.

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He, like the (R)SCDS, only recommends the round the room format when the set is a standard improper duple minor rather than a four face four.

Despite the RSCDS's claims, this dance, and the idea of dancing in a four face four (Mescolanze) formation, predate Mr. Lowe.

The earliest version I have found was published by Kattfuß in Germany in 1802.

According to The Regency Dance site Joseph Binns Hart published "Hart's 2nd Set of Quadrilles" sometime between 1818 and 1820. In this work he has a dance called Hart's Tempete Dance which was a dance with two couples facing two other couples (a rare formation for cotillions, but not unknown), however unlike cotilions (or quadrilles) Hart's dance progresses.

In his Hart's Second Set of Quadrilles, Hart writes:

Form a line of 4, the 2 Ladies on the 2 Gentlemens right, 4 more opposite to the first 4, form lines of 4 behind the 2^d. line as many as intend to dance.

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FIGURE

The first 2 lines right and left, chassez across to the right and left with your partner, dechassez, in returning you go behind the 2^d. Couple The Center 4 hands round, the outside couple's turn and back all 8 Set quite round to the right re set to your places, the top four lead through the 2^d. line and begin the same figure with the 3^d. line & so on to the bottom of the dance.

Then in ~1825 GMS Chivers published a dance called La Tempête in his "Dancing Master in Miniature".

The Contrafusion site says the dance was originally European and dates it back to 1802.

In the US, the earliest source I can lay my hands on is from New York in the US in 1851, which was a mescolanze (but not a round the room dance) Mr. Whale & Daughter published La Tempète, as danced at the Queen's Last Ball

This popular Dance is danced by any number of double couples standing as above at commencement. All begin together, — Advance and retire twice, — Partners together gallop across eight steps each way, — Advance and retire twice, — Hand four round in the centre, (as above) Sides the same turning with both hands, — Hands across, (as above) Sides the same, — Advance and retire once, — Go forward to dance with next vis a vis.

Also in 1851, also in New York, Burnton published The Original Tampete

This popular dance is dance by any number of double couples, standing as above at commencement, all begin at once.

1. All forward and back, (4 bars) half right and left, (4 bars) forward and back, (4 bars) half right and left to place (4 bars)
2. Couples Galop eight steps to the left, (4 bars) then eight steps to the right, (4 bars)
3. Small stars (Each double couple form a star, Ladies cross hands, Gents also, round eight steps to the left (4 bars) change eight steps to the right (4 bars)
4. Grand star (Four couples. Ladies take Gents arms & cross hands in centre, eight steps round to the left, (4 bars) change Gentlemen swing in centre and cross hands, Ladies remain on Gents arms outside. eight steps round to the right. (4 bars)
5. Circles (Each double couple form a circle, hands round, eight steps to the left, (4 bars) eight steps to the right (4 bars)

All advance first couple holding hands up, others passing quick through and advance to the new couples. This forms the first figure again, and must therefore be no time lost, when passing through to the next.

These are the original and true figures, as danced in Europe

I have a page devoted to a more complete history of this dance.

The tune was composed around 1820 by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop.

The RSCDS has trios alternately of 1 man and two women facing 1 woman and two men.

This is (intended to be) the official RSCDS version, according to The SCD Dictionary at Ceilidhs it is danced slightly differently, with right hand turns instead of two hand turns, a right shoulder reel (or chain) rather than a left, and in the final pass through the 2s make arches while the 1s dive through.

Note: this is completely different from the traditional contra dance with the same name.

Walsh, 1748, 1760 and Rutherford, 1758 published a dance with this name (well, they called it Hay Jenny come down to Jock) but their figure does not match this one.

The RSCDS credits this to Allan, ~1880. My version of Allan's work dates from ~1900 and says:

1. First and second couples advance and retire, four hands half round.
2. The first gentleman turns the second lady fully round by the right hand.
3. The first lady does the same with the second gentleman.
4. Pousette.

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The RSCDS credits Bremner for publishing the tune.

The Register of Dances at Castle Menzies, 1749 contains a dance of this name (also called The Mighty Pretty Valley, but it was a triple minor and had a different figure.

Bride, 1770, and later Longman & Broderip also published dances with this name, again triple minors with different figures.

The Tullock Hold is defined here.

In Wallace's Ball-Room Guide, Glasgow, ~1900, he writes:

Stand as for Reel of Four, as shown in Diagram see page 68, all use Reel step throughout.

1. Ladies and Gentlemen put their right arm under their partner's right arm and left behind their own back, join hands in said position, use four steps round, now reverse the arms, putting left under the left and right behind your own back, turning round other way; finish by Ladies facing each other in the centre,
2. Ladies dance to each other,
3. Ladies put their right arm under each other's as they did with the Gentlemen, and left behind their own back. Use four steps round; now reverse direction and arms, finish facing each other's partner,
4. All use second Reel step,
5. All turn again as in No. 1, Gentlemen finish facing each other,
6. Gentlemen dance to each other,
7. Gentlemen turn each other, by locking right arms, left hand raised over own head, using four steps round, reversing direction and arms, finish opposite own partners,
8. All use third Reel Step,
9. Again turn as in No. 1, with hands behind the back, finish Ladies facing each other,
10. Ladies dance to each other, and turn again, finish opposite each other's partner,
11. All set, using fourth Reel step,
12. All turn again, Gentlemen finish facing each other,
13. Gentlemen dance to each other, finish facing own partners,
14. All set again, using fifth Reel step,
15. All finish by turning, having regained partners and places.

Note Usually there is a nice showy step used by Ladies as well as Gentlemen when dancing to their own sex in the centre.

Frequently Hullachan is substituted for the last quick part in Reel of Four.

The RSCDS attributes this to Wallace, ~1880. The Library of Dance dates Wallace's work to ~1900. Perhaps there were multiple publications, or just uncertainty. In any event it appears earlier, in Kate Hughes's manuscript from Dundalk Ireland, 1867:

1. The tow top couples swing (8 bars)
2. First couple down the centre and up (8)
3. Rights and lefts (8)
4. Pousett

At this time the word "swing" was used for almost any circular movement, and could certainly have meant a right hands across/left hands back.

In Wallace's Ball-Room Guide, Glasgow, ~1900, he writes:

1. First and second couples give right hands across and turn round, back to places with left, (Gentleman No. 2 remains beside his partner), 8 bars
2. First couple down the centre and back bringing the Lady into second Gentleman's place, 8 bars
3. First and second couples right and left, 8 bars
4. Pousette, 8 bars

The RSCDS says this was collected in Perthshire and was also found in Allan's Reference Guide to the Ballroom, ~1895, but it appeared elsewhere earlier.

An early version of the dance appears in Kate Hughes's manuscript, the Dancing Book, Dundalk Ireland, 1867. She calls the dance "Torrayburn Lassies".

1. The top gent swing the tow ladies (8 bars)
2. Top gent and his partner swing the second gent (8)
3. Down the centre and up (8)
4. Swing four (8)
5. Pousett (8)

At this time "swing" meant almost any circular movement. The first swing could certainly match the "circle three" of the RSCDS, though presumably followed by a "and back to the right". The "swing four" could be a circle four, or a hands across, or who knows what.

Wallace in his The Excelsior Manual of Dancing, ~1872, calls the dance simply "Torryburn"

1. First couple set and three hands round with second lady, (8 bars)
2. Repeat the same with second gentleman, (8 bars)
3. First couple down the centre and back, (8 bars)
4. Couples No. 1 and 2 Pousette (8 bars)

But in Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, Glasgow, ~1895, the dance has become Torryburn Lassies.

1. Top couple set, and then three hands round with second lady.
2. Repeat the same with second gentleman.
3. Down the centre and up.
4. Pousette first and second couples.

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Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, says:

The couples stand in a circle round the room, facing each other.

1. All advance and retire twice.
2. Clap the hands three times, and beat on the heel of the foot three times.
3. All pass to next couple, the gentlemen passing on the outside of the ladies.

No. 3 may also be done by swinging their partners round and passing to next couple

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Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, says:

The couples stand in a circle round the room, facing each other.

1. All advance and retire twice.
2. Clap the hands three times, and beat on the heel of the foot three times.
3. All pass to next couple, the gentlemen passing on the outside of the ladies.

No. 3 may also be done by swinging their partners round and passing to next couple

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RSCDS Book 11 says "collected in Fife and Pebbleshire.
Let Glasgow Flourish in Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, Glasgow, c. 1900 is very similar.

Wallace in his The Excelsior Manual of Dancing, ~1872, names the dance "Let Glasgow Flourish"

1. Four hands across at the top and back again, (8 bars)
2. Six hands round and back (8)
3. Top couple down the centre and up finishing in second couples place, (8)
4. The first three couples promenade once round, (8)

Wallace gives no suggestions as to music.

I have not yet found a copy of Anderson's earlier work but this dance also appears in D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, of 1897, wherein he writes:

Time 6-8.

Top gent. turn a measure with first and second ladies.

Down centre arm and arm with the two ladies and back.

Hands across with second gent., and pousette.

Reel four across.

Promenade round with own partners.

First and second couples pousette.

Repeat to bottom of dance.

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On page 117 Anderson claims to be the devisor of this dance.

I have not yet found a copy of Anderson's earlier work but this dance also appears in D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, of 1897, wherein he writes:

Reel Time.

Top couple down the centre and back.

Top gent. set and turn second lady.

Top lady set and turn second gent.

Reel four across.

Promenade round with own partners.

First and second couples pousette.

Repeat to bottom of dance.

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On page 117 Anderson claims to be the devisor of this dance.

D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, he writes:

Time 6-8.

Top gent. down the centre and back with second lady, leave her at right of parner and join own partner, having her on right.

Top two couples advance and retire.

Re-advance, and turn opposite partners to right hand.

Advance and retire.

Re-advance, and turn own partners.

Two top couples pousette.

Repeat Figure to bottom.

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On page 117 Anderson claims to be the devisor of this dance.

RSCDS Book 31 attributes this to Thomas Murphy's Aide Memoire, a manuscript from about 1890, but it is clearly derived from Clutha C.D. in Kate Hughes's Dancing Book, ~1867:

1. Top couple swing in the centre
2. Cast a couple and swing
3. Balance four in line with second couple and turn opposite partners
4. Rights and lefts
5. Set and turn opposite partners
6. Half chasie and swing out time
7. Pousette

Hughes's dance is longways, but the figure is closely related.

RSCDS Book 31 says this comes from Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, ~1880, and it is in that work, but it appears earlier.

In 1852 Seaton published Original Polka Country Dance which also begins with the top couple improper, and contains a lady's chain but there is little similarity beyond that.

In ~1867 Kate Hughes's Dancing Book, Dundalk, 1867 there is an earlier version of the figure:

1. The top couple change places as in the Guaracha first and seceaond couples set at the sides and pass to each others places set to partners and pass repeat.
2. Top couple down the centre and up agin
3. Poussette

Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, Glasgow, ~1895, says.

1. Top couples change places and face down the dance, the second couple facng up; first and second couple set with two Polka steps and pass to each other's place, set to partners and pass, set again at the sides and pass, and again to partners and resume places.
2. First couple down the centre and up.
3. Pousette.

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The RSCDS attributes this dance to the New Enlarged and Complete Ball-Room Guide, but when you go to the National Library of Scotland's catalogue and request that book what you get is D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, The Solo Dance Guide appears to have a second title page claiming to be the New Enlarged and Complete Ball-Room Guide. Both are said to have been published in 1897 and I suspect they are indeed the same work. At any rate this dance is in the Solo Dance Guide.

D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, he writes:

Time, 2-4 or 6-8

Stand as for the Quadrille.

Top and bottom couples give right hands across in the centre and go half round.

Give left hand and go back to places.

Top couple and right-hand couple advance and retire to each other. half rights and lefts to each other's places; at the same time bottom couple and left-hand couple advance and retire, half rights and lefts to each others places. Top and bottom couples are now at sides and side couples at top and bottom.

Top and bottom couples half ladies chain.

Side couples half ladies chain.

Top and bottom couples half ladies chain.

Sides half ladies chain, bring ladies back to their own partners.

Top and No. 3 couples again advance and retire, and half rights and lefts; at same time bottom couple and No. 4 couple advance and retire and half rights and lefts, bringing all into their original places.

All promenade half-round with partners.

All walk back to places, the ladies walking behind their partners.

Repeat from beginning — sides taking leading part the second time; top and bottom the third time; sides the fourth time.

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The RSCDS attributes this dance to the New Enlarged and Complete Ball-Room Guide, but when you go to the National Library of Scotland's catalogue and request that book what you get is D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, The Solo Dance Guide appears to have a second title page claiming to be the New Enlarged and Complete Ball-Room Guide. Both are said to have been published in 1897 and I suspect they are indeed the same work. At any rate this dance is in the Solo Dance Guide.

D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, he writes:

Time, 2-4 or 6-8

Stand as for the Quadrille.

Top and bottom couples give right hands across in the centre and go half round.

Give left hand and go back to places.

Top couple and right-hand couple advance and retire to each other. half rights and lefts to each other's places; at the same time bottom couple and left-hand couple advance and retire, half rights and lefts to each others places. Top and bottom couples are now at sides and side couples at top and bottom.

Top and bottom couples half ladies chain.

Side couples half ladies chain.

Top and bottom couples half ladies chain.

Sides half ladies chain, bring ladies back to their own partners.

Top and No. 3 couples again advance and retire, and half rights and lefts; at same time bottom couple and No. 4 couple advance and retire and half rights and lefts, bringing all into their original places.

All promenade half-round with partners.

All walk back to places, the ladies walking behind their partners.

Repeat from beginning — sides taking leading part the second time; top and bottom the third time; sides the fourth time.

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D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, he writes:

Reel Time.

Top couple turn half a measure with right arm. turn half a measure with left arm.

Top gent. set and turn second lady.

Top lady set and turn second gent.

Ladies chain.

Top couple down centre and back.

First and second couples pousette.

Repeat to bottom of dance.

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On page 117 Anderson claims to be the devisor of this dance.

Miss Milligan's Miscellany 1 attributes this to Mozart Allan's Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room of 1880, but the figure occurs earlier than that.

1. Three ladies at the top advance and retire.
2. Three gentlemen advance and retire.
3. The top lady turns round to right, the other two following — same time the three gentlemen turn to left, meet partners at fourth couple, lead up the centre.
4. Three couples galop round to places.
5. Two couples pousette.

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The earliest example I've found is J. Seaton's The Ball-Room Manual and Etiquette of Dancing, Halifax, 1852. Seaton calls it "Lord Burghersh's Favorite, or, the British Grenadiers":

Three gentlemen advance to their partners, and retire; three ladies do the same; the first gentleman and second lady advance and turn all round by the right hand to places; the second gentleman and first lady do the same; the first couple lead down the centre of the dance and up agian, and take the second couple's place; the top couple balance and turn all round, giving both hands. When the first couple again arrive at the top, and the last couple at the bottom, each gentleman takes the lady's left hand, and finishes with a quck march round the room, lead by the first and all the other couples following until they return to places.

By 1862 it had migrated to the US and may be found in Elias Howe's American Dancing Master, Boston, 1862. Howe calls also it "Lord Burghersh's Favorite, or the British Grenadiers" and quotes Seaton verbatim.

The next example is from Kate Hughes's Dancing Book, Dundalk, 1867

1. The three top gents advance and retire (4)
2. The three top ladies the same (4)
3. The three top couples promenade to places (8)
4. The tow top couples swing four half round and turn partners (8)
5. Pousette

Then Wallace The "Excelsior" Manual of Dancing, Glasgow, 1872

1. Gentlemen No. 1, 2, and 3 join hands and advance and retire (4)
2. Ladies, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 do likewise (4)
3. The three couples promenade to places (8)
4. Gentlemen No. 1 and 2, and ladies No. 1 and 2, give right hands across, back giving left (8)
5. Pousette, (using Galop step, making a half turn with each, (8)

I do not have access to Allan's work to quote it.

Wallace writes:

1. First couple advance to centre of dance, turning round to right and set, (4)
2. Advance to opposite side turning to left and set, (4)
3. Turn partner with right and back with left hand, (8)
4. Down the centre and back, (8)
5. Pousette, (8)

Kate Hughes writes:

1. The tow top ladies and the tow top gents advance and retire and change places [8]
2. Top ladie and second gent swing in the centre and back to places (8)
3. econd ladie and first gent the same (8)
4. Down the center and up (8)
5. Pousett

While in ~1872 J. F. Wallace wrote in his The "Excelsior" Manual of Dancing:

1. Top four advance and retire, and half right and left, (8)
2. First lady turns the second gentleman by giving right hand and both return to places, (4)
3. Second lady and first gentleman repeat No. 2, (4)
4. First couple down the centre and back, (8)
5. Pousette, (8)

Kate Hughes writes:

1. Top gent cast the second lady down the centre and up (8)
2. Set and turn partners (8)
3. Ladies chain (8)
4. Pousett

J. F. Wallace in his The "Excelsior" Manual of Dancing, ~1872 writes:

1. First gentleman takes the second lady down the centre and up leaving her beside her partner, while he joins his partner, (8)
2. The two couples set and turn partners, (8)
3. Ladies chain, (8)
4. Pousette, (8)

Neither the RSCDS, nor any of the sources specify how L1+M2 cross to opposite sides. The most obvious is for them to cross up at the end of the lead up, but they could simply wheel around at the bottom. I suppose they could even cross over before leading down, but that seems even less likely.

The RSCDS attributes this to D. Anderson's Ball-Room Guide, ~1880, and to Kate Hughes's Dancing Book, ~1867.

Kate Hughes writes:

1. Top couple swing in the centre (8)
2. Balance four in a line with the seceand couple (8)
3. Four arm arm down the centre and up (8)
4. Pousett

J. F. Wallace in his The "Excelsior" Manual of Dancing, ~1872 writes:

1. First couple gives right hands, turns once round, return giving left which is retained and give right hands to partners, (8)
2. The four set in line, using balance step, (4)
3. The gentlemen turns each other's partners (4)
4. The four arm and arm down the centre and back, (8)
5. Pousette (8)

(I think when Wallace says "partner" at the end of 1) that he means "other partner" or what I'd call neighbor.)

D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, he writes:

First gentleman gives right hand to his partner, and turns her in the centre.

Repeat with the left hand.

Set four in a line across the dance with next couple.

All four down the centre and back.

Pousette.

Repeat.

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I have not yet found a copy of Anderson's earlier work but this dance also appears in D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, of 1897, wherein he writes:

Reel Time.

Top couple down the centre and back.

Top lady turn second gent. by right arm half a measure, then turn by left arm half a measure.

At the same time top gent. turns second lady by right arm half a measure, then turn by left arm half a measure.

Reel four across the dance.

Pousette with own partners.

Repeat figure to bottom.

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On page 117 Anderson claims to be the devisor of this dance.

This may be in D. Anderson's Ball-Room Guide of ~1880, but it is not in his later work D. Anderson's Ball-Room and Solo Dance Guide, which is all that I have access to.

The RSCDS attributes this dance to Mozart Allan's Allan's Reference Guide to the Ball-Room, ~1880 with a note that it may also be found in Kate Hughes's Dancing Book.

1. All the gents set and turn the lady on the right (8)
2. Set and turn the lady on the left (8)
3. Set and turn partners (8)
4. Top couple lead in (8)
5. Top couple poussette in (8)
6. Top and bottom change places bottom open up (8)
7. Back to places and top open up (8)
8. Repeat nos 6 and 7 (16)
9. Eight hands half round and turn partners (8)
10. Poussette to places.
11. Repeated by the other couples.
12. Finish with all promenade

J. F. Wallace also published it in about 1872 in his The "Excelsior" Manual of Dancing:

1. All eight advance (gentlemen to right, ladies to left) balance at corners and turn with both hands, (8)
2. All advance to partners, balance and turn, (8)
3. Couple No. 1 promenade round inside of quadrille, (8)
4. Couple No. 1 poussette or galop round, (8)
5. Couples No. 1 and 2 change places, cross No. 1, passing between couple No. 2; return to places Couple No. 2, passing between couple No. 1, (8)
6. Repeat No. 5, (8)
7. All promenade, (8)
8. All join hands and go half round to left and pousette or promenade back to places (8)

Note: Wallace is using the quadrille system for numbering couples. The second couple is the one directly across from the 1st.

While Allan says:

1. All pass partners, set and turn at the corners.
2. Repass to places, set to partners, and turn
3. Top couple promenade round in the inside of the dance.
4. Then pousette round.
5. First couple cross over to opposite couple's place, the bottom couple passing on the outside to top couple's place.
6. The bottom couple to places, passing in the center, and the first couple repassing on the outside.
7. The top and bottom repeat the same.
8. All join hands and round.
9. All promenade round with partners.

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Kate Hughes writes:

1. Top couple swing in the centre (8)
2. Down the centre at the same time the seceaond gent cross over to his partner (8)
3. Top and seceaond couples set in the centre facing each other and turn partners (8)
4. Reel four down the dance (8)
5. Pousett (8)

Bride published a dance with this name in 1768 but it had a different figure. Longman & Broderip republished it in 1781.

Kate Hughes wrote down a dance very similar to the RSCDS version:

1. Top couple turn round to the right and set in the centre of the dance (4)
2. Turn to opposite sides the ladie between the seceaond and third gentlemen the gent between the seceaond and third ladies and set (4)
3. The three on each side join hands advance and retire twice (8)
4. All six join hands in a circle pass half round to the left and back to the right to places.
5. Pousett (8)

And in his The "Excelsior" Manual of Dancing, ~1872, J. F. Wallace writes:

1. First couple turn round to the right and set in the centre of the dance, (4)
2. Turn to opposite side, the lady between the second and third gentlemen, the gentleman between second and third ladies and set, (4)
3. The three on each side advance and retire twice, (8)
4. All six join hands in a circle, pass half round to left, and back to places, (8)
5. Couples No. 1 and 2 Pousette (8)