Annotation:Mr. Thomas Tollate's Ground (1)
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MR. THOMAS TOLLATE'S GROUND [1]. English, Air (9/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFFGG. "Mr. Tollate's Ground [1]" is the first of three grounds entered into the c. 1694 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician Henry Atkinson. 'Thomas Tollate' may be Thomas Tollet (born c. 1630 in Dublin) who went to London in 1689 with others of the Dublin City Musicians. Four members of the Tollett family, Thomas, John, George and Charles, served as city musicians in Dublin between 1669 and 1688, though Thomas was the only one who went to London. According to Peter Holman[1] he arrived
...in time to write a suite for Thomas D'Urfey's play Love for Money, or The Boarding School, produced at Drury Lane in, probably, January 1691. He subsequently wrote music for five more plays produced at Drury Lane, and after the breakup of the United Company in winter 1694–5 he wrote a suite for Thomas Dilke's The Lover's Luck (December 1695), produced by Thomas Betterton's company at Lincoln's Inn Fields. His wind band piece "The Queen's Farewell" was probably written for the funeral of Queen Mary on 5 March 1695. In the same month he was sworn in as a member of the Private Musick in March 1695.
Tollet also authored a tutorial for the "French Flageolet" before he died in London in 1696. Groves Dictionary finds reference in Hawkins History of a "Tollet's Ground", which he attributed to one George Tollet (perhaps Thomas's brother??).
