Also from The Ball-Room Guide. With Coloured Plates (London, F. Warne and co., 1866, p. 85) (at American Memory):

It is customary to conclude the evening with some simple, jovial, spirit-stirring dance, in which all, young and old, slim and obese, may take a part. Any contre danse (country dance), answers this purpose; but the prime favourite is Sir Roger de Coverley, which has held its own, in spite of the lapse of time and the mutations of fashion, since the beginning of the last century, at the very least.