OLD BATCHELOR - 
Longways duple minor, traditional Playford, 1695, NIB
A. Simon version (7 dances from The Dancing Master, 1973)

A1: 1-4: 1s cross over, cast down & meet between 2s (improper) [skipping step]
         all form a line of four facing up, M2W1M1W2

     5-8 All lead up a double and fall back, still abreast.

A2 1-4: All face neighbor and side with neighbor
   5-8: 1's turn right to face partner and two-hand turn around in the middle to
        end facing 2nd woman (1st man below, 1st woman above).

B  1-2: 1st man circle left half-way with the women.
   3-6: 2nd man comes in between the two women to make a ring of four; 
        circle left until 1's are in original places proper 
        (2's below improper).
   7-8: Cloverleaf turn single.
  9-12: Starting with partner, skipping, circular hey
        (three changes for 1's, two changes for 2's).  In other words,
        stop when progressed and proper.


OLD BATCHELOR -

The Old Batchelor 
Longways duple minor, 6/8 meter 
Playford, 1695, interpreted by Nicolas Broadbridge, 1995

A1	1-4	1s cross and move down outside into a line of four facing up
               (1s improper in middle).
 	5-8	Line leads up a double and back, then all face neighbor
(original corner).

A2	1-4	Neighbors (M1 with W2 and W1 with M2) gypsy into diamond
formation, finishing with 1s on center line of the set facing each other (man
below partner), 2s completing gypsy to own place.
 	5-8	1s two-hand turn.

B	1-4	1s and W2 circle left until M1 is in W1's original place, then
all three turn single left, women finish facing M2.
 	5-8	Both women and M2 circle left until M2 is in W2's place, then
all three turn single left, all finishing in original places improper.
 	9-12	2 changes of a rights-and-lefts, partners facing to start.