Blackheath
by Kalia Kliban - March 2011
Playford's Dancing Master 11th ed. 1701, Walsh 1718, Kentish Hops
Meter 4/4   Key G minor, Duple minor longways, proper
Red Barnes

 
A1: 1-4 Men dance clockwise (R-shouldered) around own partners and
        back to home.
    5-8 1s lead down through 2s and cast back to home.

A2  1-4  Women dance counter-clockwise (L-shouldered) around own
         partners and back to home.
    5-8  2s lead up through 1s and cast back to home.

B   1-4  1st corners balance forward and back, then 2nd corners the same.
   5-12  1s dance a whole figure of 8 down through the 2s.
  13-16  While the 1s meet and 2-hand turn down to progressed place,
         the 2s cast up.
 

Kalia sez:
This is changed very minimally from the version in Kentish Hops, which was a
3-couple set version in which the 3s did absolutely nothing except cast up at
the end.  That seemed unsatisfying to me, so I changed it to a duple minor, and
changed the diagonal looping of the original to a more standard whole figure 8. 
The rest of the dance is untouched.
 
In the A parts, bars 1-4, the active dancers always start by going around the
top side of their standing partners.