HOMBEY HOUSE
longways duple minor, meter 3/4, key F
Blue Barnes
Dancing Master Vol 11 - 1713  - Pat Shaw reconstruction
This from "Another Look at Playford"; parahrased

A1: 1-4: 1s whole figure 8 down through 2s
    5-8: 2s whole figure 8 up through 1s

A2: 1-4: 1s lead down between 2s, cast up to places and turn single up
         (that is, M1 left shoulder, W1 right shoulder)
    5-8: 2s lead up, cast down, turn single down (M2 to R, W2 to L)

B1: 1: First corners change (3 steps)
    2: second corners change (starting LEFT foot)
    3: facing diagonally in, all set (R-L-together) to center
    4: all turn single left (3 steps, L-R-together) into
  5-8: circle left once round 

B2: 1-2: 1s half figure eight up between 2s
    3-4: 2s half figure eight down between 1s [all proper and progressed]
    5-8: Partners facing, all four changes of rights and lefts, giving hands.

Reconstruction Note;
  The circle left at B1 5-8 was "right and left quite round but altered by PS
to be less repetitive

Dance Note:
 Pat Shaw says "Walking step with plenty of drive off the back foot to cover
the ground in time."

Historical note:
 "Hombey" was the local pronunciation for Holdenby near Althorp.  Holdenby was
once the largest private house in England and subsequently the palace and
prison of King Charlies I.  It is 7 miles NW of Northampton.

Traditional Tune Archive sez:
HOMBEY HOUSE. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning
(fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's
Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1] (1710-1728), and in rival London
publishers Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book
(1710), and Walsh and Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master
(1719). 

Hombey House, near Northhampton, and was famous as the place where King Charles
I took refuge at the end of the English Civil War. The melody was probably
composed by Henry Purcell, as it appears in his opera The Indian Queen as an
untitled hornpipe. However, Purcell was known to have employed older airs in
his works (William Chappell - National English Airs, 1838, p. 159).