Bit sweeping, Diane, to say there were no English dancing masters - even if you are only talking about E.D.M. - and remember there were eighteen successive editions between 1651 and 1728, not to mention all the other books of 'Country Dance' written and published in England. I will also cite Trevor Stone's research on Yorkshire travelling Dancing Masters of the nineteenth Century.

The first few dances (& tunes)in C#'s ECDB were collected from an ongoing tradition at Blue Anchor, near Minehead at the other end of our moor - that was before he subsequently discovered the Playford series and comitted himself to working on them - 'vast quantities' presumably refers to the few that came from the 1651 edition.

Tom