I think Mr Yellow, in his enthusiasm to promote the Banbary Folk Festival and ceilidhs thereof, omitted the fact that it was only the Sunday frivolities that had been banned for 350 years.

I do have his ear after all.

And Playford recorded parlour dances of the hoipaloi. I have been remonstrated against for regarding Mr Playford as a collector not because he wasn't but because there is no evidence that he went and looked at the choreography. I feel that anyone who can publish (for that was his trade) such popular books in their day would not go to eyeball his cash cow. And I would wager he danced too - if the evidence is not there I can't be proven wrong.