Annotation:Adventure in Margate (An)

The melody appears in T. Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (London, 1780). The title perhaps comes from the play Summer Amusement, or an Adventure at Margate written by Miles Peter Andrews (1742-1814) in conjunction with William Augustus Miles, performed in 1779 in the Haymarket. Andrews was a playwright, gunpowder manufacturer and a Member of Parliament (1796-1814) from Bewdley. The tune also appears in Peter Barnes English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005; p. 2).