Add MS 25075

passim. Numbers from Operas; either arranged for pianoforte, or with pianoforte accompaniment in score; about 1799. Apparently made by Maria Jackson, alias Egerton [? Maria, daughter of Thomas Scott Jackson, afterwards wife of Sir John Grey-Egerton, 8th Bart., whose nephew. Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, 10th Bart., presented the MS to the British Museum]. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for a single voice. 1. 'Shelter a way-worn Traveller': quartet from an Opera ['Feudal Times,' 1799] by Michael Kelly. f. 2. 2. 'Hear me, hear me': quartet from 'Blue-Beard,' by C. F. Baumgarten [1792]. f. 5. 3. 'How oft, Louisa, hast thou said'; from 'The Duenna,' by T. Linley, sen. [1775]. f. 19b. 4. 'Welcome, mirth': from 'The Stranger.' f. 25. 5. March in 'Bac[c]hus and Ariadne.' f. 35 (reversed). 6. 'Naval March.' First seven bars. From 'Feudal Times' (see No. 1). f. 40b (reversed).

ff. 3b-30. Songs, with pianoforte accompaniment, in score; late 18th cent. Mostly anonymous. 1. 'When Delia on the plain appears.' f. 3b. 2. 'For thee all the hardships of Life I could bear.' f. 9. 3. 'Crazy Jane,' begins 'Why, fair Maid.' f. 10. 4. 'Beneath a Poplar's friendly shadow.' f. 12b. 5. 'What energy can paint the Grief.' f.13. 6. 'When first you courted me.' f. 14. 7. 'With sorrow and repentance true.' f. 15. 8. 'Spring returns.' f. 16. 9. 'Thou hast play'd... a false, a faithless Part.' f. 16b. 10. 'Roy's wife of Alldivaloch.' f. 17b. 11. 'The Highland Laddie,' begins 'The Lawland Lads.' f. 18b. 12. 'Go to the Ew-Bughts, Marion.' f. 19. 13. 14. 'Ye shepherds so chearful,' and 'Ye shepherds, give ear.' '[William] Jackson' [of Exeter — from op. 4, about 1770]. ff. 20b, 21. 15. 'A Smile and a Tear,' begins 'You own I'm complacent.' 'Miss [Harriet] Abrams' [about 1800]. f. 22. 16. 'Yes, my bonny Love.' f. 24b. 17. 'O faithless Maid.' ib. 18. 'O Barra vale.' f. 27. 19. 'O strew the sweet Flow'r.' f. 28. 20. 'Mamma mia, non mi gridate.' f. 30.

f. 4b. 'Never from thee will I part'; for 3 voices, in score; late 18th cent. Apparently part of a Catch. Anonymous.

f. 20. A Duet to English words; late 18th cent. 'By those eyes whose sweet expression'; in compressed score. Anonymous.

f. 23b. 'Adieu to the Village'; in compressed score; late 18th cent. [By Joseph Baildon.]

ff. 40-31 (reversed). Dances, etc., for Pianoforte, mostly anonymous, begun in England in 1790; late 18th cent. For all the numbers in this volume, reverse the MS. 1. 'Dunkeld House.' f. 40. 2. 'Irish Girl.' ib. 3. 'Atholl Brose.' f. 39b. 4. 'Hilton Lodge.' ib. 5. 'Lord Home's Strathspey.' f. 39. 6. 'Follow Him over the border' (melody as in 23074, no. 37). ib. 7. 'Lady Baird's Strathspey.' f. 38b. 8. 'Mr. Hamilton of Wishaw's Reel.' ib. 9. 'Jenny Nettles': reel. f. 38. 10. 'Lady Madehna Sinclair's Strathspey.' f. 37b. 11. 'The Caledonian Hunt.' ib. 12. 'Lord Macdonald's Reel.' f. 37. 13. 'Mr. Macdonall Grant.' f. 36b. 14. 'Jenny Sutton' (melody as in 25073, no. 55). ib. 15. 'Perthshire Hunt' (see also 25074, no. 34). f. 36. 16. 'Loch Enoch Side.' ib. 17. 'Miss Mary Macdonald's Reel.' ib. 18. 'The Dusty Miller' (also in another key on f. 5b). f. 35b. 19. 'The London March.' ib. 20. 'The Morgan Rattler.' f. 35. 21. 'The Bob of Fettercairn.' f. 34b. 22. 'The Newcastle Troop.' f. 34. 23. 'Mrs. Dundas of Amiston's Reel.' f. 33b. 24. 'Dunncra Lodge.' ib. 25. 'Moli (?) ith Wade.' f. 33. 26. 'I'll be fain to follow you.' ib. 27. 'Kempshot Hunt.' f. 32b. 28. 'Mrs. Gordon's Troop.' ib. 29. 'Waltzer Sus[s]ex Band.' f. 32. 30. 'The Colledge Hornpipe.' f. 31b. 31. 'Neil Gow's Straspey.' ib. 32. 'Drops of Brandy.' ib. 33. 'Coll. McBain's Reel' (see also 25073, no. 28; etc.). f. 31. 34. 'Jenny's Bawbee.' ib. 35. 'Miss Murray of Auchtertyre's Strathspey.' ib.