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LADY SOPHIA LINDSAY (R4x32) 3s & 4s on opposite sides
Jean Attwood Alexander Leaflet 6
1- 8
2s+3s dance RH across once round, 2s (Lady leading) dance out
& cast up round 1
st
Lady while 3s dance out & cast down round
4
th
Lady
9-16
2s with 1
st
Man & 3s with 4
th
Man, dance RH across once round, 2s
with 1
st
Lady & 3s with 4
th
Lady, dance LH across once round
17-24
2s & 3s dance Tandem reels of 3 on sides (2s dance down & out on
Men’s side as 3s dance up & out Ladies side). At the end of reel 2s
dance across top of dance ending in 1
st
place on own sides as 3s
dance across bottom of dance ending in 4
th
place 1s end in 2
nd
place
own side facing down & 4s in 3
rd
place opposite side facing up
25-32
1L+4M also 1M+4L set on sides, change places RH, 1s+4s set to
partners & cross to other side RH 2 4(1)(3)
The Lady Sophia Lindsay on whom Jean Attwood based this dance was a member of the Lindsay family (possibly
the daughter of Alexander Lindsay, the first Earl of Balcarres) who was married to Charles, son of Archibald
Campbell, the 9th Earl of Argyle, whom she helped to escape from Edinburgh Castle in 1681.
The tandem chase and hands across in bars 5-16 are supposed to be Lady Sophia and her page arriving and going
up the spiral staircases with the guards, the tandem reels in bars 17-24 are supposed to be Lady Sophia and her
father-in-law (in the page's clothes) making their way out past the guards and bars 25-32 are supposed to
represent the guards hue and cry after the Earl's escape was discovered.
