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X: 1 T:Leather Lane. JJo2.013 Q:1/4=80 N:NB.Last two notes in bar 5 are quavers in MS M:C| B:J.Johnson Choice Collection Vol 2 after c1750 Z:vmp.Mike Hicken 2014 www.village-music-project.org.uk L:1/16 K:G G2AB cdef g2fe d2d2|e2E2 d2D2 cBAG c2BA|GABc defd gefg a2g2|fadf A2^c2 d8 || bagf abag fed2 "NB"z2 cB|(efg2) afge defd Bfga|b2B2 a2A2 g2G2 f2F2|E2ef g2f2 e6 gf| gfed cBAG e2d2 z2 G2|c2B2 z2 G2 e2d2c2B2|cdBc ABGA FGAF DEFD |G2"sic"AA cdef g2fe d2D2| G2AB cdef g2fe d2d2|(efg2) (cde2) (ABc2) (EFG2)|DEFG ABcA BGBd g2"sic"f2|BAGA D2F2 G8|] W: W:Note: This tune must be play'd quite through

LEATHER LANE. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Leather Lane" was first printed in London music publisher John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (c. 1735, p. 101 and edition of 1749, p. 105), and subsequently by John Johnson in Wright's Compleat Collection of celebrated country Dances, vol. 2. (1742, p. 7) and Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1744, p. 35). The other leading London music publisher of the mid-to-latter 18th century, the Thompsons, printed the tune in Compleat Collection of 120 Favourite Hornpipes (c. 1775).

Leather Lane is a street west of Hatton Garden, in the Holborn area of London, a residential area built after the Great Fire of London. As might be expected, Leather Lane is said to have taken its name from a private open-air butchers market nearby^[1] and developed into a market street for all kinds of goods after many of the houses opened their lower floors to shops. London chronicler Stow noted there were also inns on the street--"'White Heart Inn,' 'Nag's Head Inn,' and 'King's Head Inn'— all indifferent," and the street has not always enjoyed a good reputation. There is still an open-air market on Leather Lane, making it one of London's oldest markets.

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↑ There are other theories about the origin of the street name, including a it's being derivation of a woman's name or the old French word for greyhound, leveroune, perhaps the name of a once local tavern.

[1] There are other theories about the origin of the street name, including a it's being derivation of a woman's name or the old French word for greyhound, leveroune, perhaps the name of a once local tavern.

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