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Monks March (Sherborne)

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Source: C. Sharp ms no. 2458 in Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Performer: Simpson, George
Place Collected: Didcot
Date collected: 24 March 1910
Collector: Sharp, Cecil

Morris tune from Sherborne, Gloucestershire. Although Sharp visited Simpson at Upton, near Didcot, then in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire, he had previously lived at Sherborne, and was Sharp’s informant for the Sherborne morris dances.

In the linked abc file this is tune number X:4

George Monck, 6.12.1608-3.01.1670, 2nd son of a family of country squires in Devon, became a professional soldier. He served the Dutch during the late stages of their war for independence from Spain. He fought successively for the Monarchy and Parliament during the Civil Wars. From 1655 to 1660 he commanded the parliamentary army in Scotland. After the resignation of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1660 he marched his army south to London to support the restoration of Charles II. Shortly afterwards he was created Duke of Albemarle. For the rest of his life he enjoyed various offices under the Crown.