ROBERT JOHNSON: From the famous Peak of Darby PDF SCORE
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Composed by Robert Johnson (c.1583-1633). From John Playford, The Musical Companion, 1672, p.88.
Giles Underwood, bass
Theatre of the Ayre
We often learn something about the appearance of English gypsies by the way they were used as a form of comparison. In a discussion on the people in Riga, located in present-day Latvia, the author describes the women as covered by 'only an old Rag, like a Plad [sic], thrown about their bodies, hardly sufficient to hide their nakedness'. They were compared to 'Gypsies newly come from the famous Peak of Darby'. By the end of the seventeenth century, the Peak District of Derbyshire, particularly a cave known as 'the Devil's Arse', was famous as an annual meeting place for gypsies (Figure 5.5). John Fryer, who travelled through India and Persia, noted that the 'old Moth-eaten Carpet' of an East Indian residence was 'not fit for a Gypsy's Mantle', suggesting the degenerate quality of an English gypsy's garments.$ The Scottish schoolmaster James Kirkwood and his family were ejected from their home in 1690 because Kirkwood refused to give up his episcopalian preferences. The women in the house were not allowed to properly dress themselves before they were removed. One of the servants, whose clothes were soiled, said shall I go out like a Gypsie? Let me get some clean clothes with me'. The woman, who had been cooking, was described as looking 'more like an Ethiopian, than an European', whatever that might mean to the seventeenth-century reader.— Frances Timbers, 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700, 2016
Composed by Robert Johnson (c.1583-1633). From John Playford, The Musical Companion, 1672, p.88.
Giles Underwood, bass
Theatre of the Ayre
We often learn something about the appearance of English gypsies by the way they were used as a form of comparison. In a discussion on the people in Riga, located in present-day Latvia, the author describes the women as covered by 'only an old Rag, like a Plad [sic], thrown about their bodies, hardly sufficient to hide their nakedness'. They were compared to 'Gypsies newly come from the famous Peak of Darby'. By the end of the seventeenth century, the Peak District of Derbyshire, particularly a cave known as 'the Devil's Arse', was famous as an annual meeting place for gypsies (Figure 5.5). John Fryer, who travelled through India and Persia, noted that the 'old Moth-eaten Carpet' of an East Indian residence was 'not fit for a Gypsy's Mantle', suggesting the degenerate quality of an English gypsy's garments.$ The Scottish schoolmaster James Kirkwood and his family were ejected from their home in 1690 because Kirkwood refused to give up his episcopalian preferences. The women in the house were not allowed to properly dress themselves before they were removed. One of the servants, whose clothes were soiled, said shall I go out like a Gypsie? Let me get some clean clothes with me'. The woman, who had been cooking, was described as looking 'more like an Ethiopian, than an European', whatever that might mean to the seventeenth-century reader.— Frances Timbers, 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700, 2016
