It is indeed called The Brighton, and we found it in the Pyle manuscript, from Nether Wallop in Hampshire. Many of the tunes from the manuscript have been published as Hampshire Dance Tunes

The original instructions are:
"The 1st Lady sett & lead the 2nd Gent down the middle – 1st Gent do the same with the 2nd Lady – Promenade – & whole Poussette"

These were clarified and described more fully by Dave Williams, along with most of the fifteen or so dances that appear in the manuscript, and we had a lot of fun trying them out with some willing volunteers last year, with the aim of incorporating some of them into Jigfoot's tune and dance repertoire.

Dave's description of the dance is as follows:

Formation: Three couple longways

A2 1st Lady sets to second man and they then dance down the set, turn and come back to places.

A2 1st Man sets to second Lady and they then dance down the set, turn and come back to places.

B1 All three couples face up and take promenaded hold and double cast to bottom of set and then up middle to original places.

B2 1st couple poussette to bottom of set. (Push me Pull you)
All take two hands. 1st couples move to ladies side with man pushing while 2nd and 3rd couples move to mans side by men pulling. 1st couple move down set a little while 2nd move up. All couples change direction, 1st man pulling while 2nd and 3rd push. 1st move up a little while 3rd move down and all reverse direction to end back in a set with 1st couple at bottom.

Jigfoot just love playing the tune for this dance. It was originally in F, but we play it in G because we have a melodeon in the band, and because all the open Es in the B section sound great on the fiddles. We've regularised the structure to AABB rather than AABA as written.

If anyone would like a copy of Dave William's dance descriptions from the Pyle manuscript I'm happy to send the PDF file if you message me from the Jigfoot web site. (There may be a little delay replying as we're away at Whitby and for the bank holiday weekend)

Cath