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Description: | Vickers' first title refers to a farm near Newcastle (among other possibilities), while his second perhaps refers to a farmyard detail. The odd title Cutom Spruitty is from Lionel Winship's manuscript and has not been decoded, but seems to be a garbled version of Vickers' second title. The tune is a good one, very pipey in style but not quite fitting the range of the old Northumbrian or Border chanters. It seems to be either a version or a close relative of another of Vickers' tunes, Scant Of Siller, with the tune Poor A Purse But Routh O' Credit (published by James Aird) being closer musically to this tune but closer in the meaning of the title to the other.This tune forms part of the The William Vickers' manuscript, dated 1770. The Index to the manuscript shows that part of the book is now missing, but the very substantial surviving part contains 580 tunes, or 'Country Dances' as the author calls them. It is not easy to pinpoint Vickers's location as his name is not uncommon, but he may be the William Vickers who shows up in genealogical records as an 'Officer of Exise' [sic] in Newcastle. It is fairly safe to assume that the collection was made in North East England because although it contains a lot of Scottish and English tunes it has local material which is not found in other sources. ; 18th century tune book compiled by William Vickers | Rights holder: | rights holder : Society of Antiquaries | Temporal: | start=1761;end=1800; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:R0301002 | Go to resource |
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