Greet manuscripts
The Greet manuscripts are a set of 21 tunes found, when working in his loft, by Peter Hill who was then living at Littleworth, Greet, near Winchcombe. They were entitled “a few favourite airs adapted for the German (ie transverse) flute”. Many are dance tunes.

The Slave: see John Mason’s similar tune, called The Sloe. A theatrical morris dance was performed at the Cheltenham Theatre in the 1820’s as part of a play called The Slave. This was a nut dance similar to that performed at Bacup, and the original performers were so enthusiastic as to give rise to the well known saying “to be nuts about something”. Was this the tune they used?

 Notes by Charles Menteith and Paul Burgess