I have some dances with the tunes on my site, David Young's Edinburgh collection from 1740. A mixture of English and Scottish:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/YoungBodleian.abc

I took great care to get that accurate. However, I don't have a clue what those instructions mean. I don't dance myself, and even modern-style dance instructions are up there with knitting patterns and the offside rule as formalisms I have no intention of ever trying to understand.