Longways for as many as will; in one part (7th Ed. 1686).

MUSIC.		MOVEMENTS
		(Duple minor-set.}
A	1-8	First man turns second wman with the right hand and then turns his partner with the left, falling back into his place.
B	1-8	Second man turns first woman with the left hand and then turns his partner with the right, falling back into his place.
C	1-4	First and second couples hands-four.
	Bar 5	On the first beat of the bar, all clap hands; on the middle beat of the bar partners strike right hands together.
	Bar 6	As in previous bar, except that, on the middle beat of the bar partners strike left hands together.
	7-8	First man and first woman cast down into second place; while second couple leads up into first place (progressive).

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Playford gives the title as Christ-Church Bells in Oxon; maybe Cecil Sharp, as a Cambridge man, decided that that Oxford didn't deserve the credit.

When the Oxford University Country Dance society (the Cecil Sharp Club) first visited the Round in 1950 we held a dance party and put this dance first on the programme.

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