Lennox Love To Blantyre
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LENNOX LOVE TO BLANTYRE (S8x32) 3C (4C set) RSCDS Book 61- 8 1s cross RH, cast 1 place, 1s+3s dance RH across ½ way
9-16 1s set twice, 3s+1s dance ½ R&L (1s end facing 1st corners)
17-24 1s set and turn 1st corners, set and turn 2nd corners
25-32 1s dance reels of 3 on opposite sides passing 1st corners LSh and cross to 2nd place on own sides
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
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Lennoxlove House is a historic house set in woodlands half a mile south of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. The house comprises a 15th-century tower, originally known as Lethington Castle, and has been extended several times, principally in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries.The house is protected as a category A listed building, and is described by Historic Scotland as "one of Scotland's most ancient and notable houses".
The property was purchased by the trustees of Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox following her death in 1702 for the benefit of her "neare and deare kinsman the said Walter Stuart". Walter Stuart was the eldest son of Alexander, 5th Lord Blantyre, and was to become the 6th Lord Blantyre on the death of his father in 1704.
The Duchess had stipulated that the property be called "Lennox's Love To Blantyre", this was subsequently shortened to Lennoxlove.
Lennoxlove is now the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, having been purchased by the 14th Duke in 1946.
Lennoxlove House
Lennox Love To Blantyre is also the name of an old Scottish dance tune.
It is recorded as Lennox Love to Blanter in Margaret Sinkler's manuscript of about 1710, making it considerably older than its appearance in Robert Bremner's A Collection of Scots Reels, published in Edinburgh in 1757, where it appears on page 17. The tune was also known as How Can I Keep My Maidenhead, under which title it appeared in John Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances in about 1736.
William Stenhouse later asserted that Lennox Love To Blantyre was modelled on the air O Dear Mother What Shall I Do. This appears to be incorrect: the Sinkler manuscript contains both Lennox Love to Blanter and O Minie, an early form of O Dear Mother What Shall I Do, as separate tunes. Later music historian John Glen specifically rejected Stenhouse's proposed connection between them.
Robert Burns subsequently used Lennox Love To Blantyre for his song Altho' Thou Maun Never Be Mine. According to George S. Emmerson in Scotland Through Her Country Dances, Burns wrote the words for an eighteen-year-old orphaned girl, the sister of one of his colleagues, whose favourite tune was Lennox Love To Blantyre.
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