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Description: | This tune is barred in 6/8 in some other collections but should plainly be in 9/8. Souters is the Scots word for shoemakers, and the tune is generally held to refer to the band of Souters from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders who fought valiantly at the Battle of Flodden, one of their number returning with a captured English flag. Vickers' setting is a short dance version, but there are many longer variation sets on the tune, including pipe versions in Dixon's and Peacock's collections. See the note in The Master Piper for more details.The 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:R0311001 | Go to resource |
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