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Scan 145
John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1Chapter XI.
3THE FIDDLE IN THE NORTH.
5"To Westminster; on the way, meeting many milkmaids with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them."—Pepy's Diary, May 1, 1667.
7At the time when Charles the Second's twenty-four fiddlers were so popular, and when Pepy's milkmaids with their garlands and pails danced along Westminster to the strains of the fiddle we evidently had a popular violinist in Weardale, according to the Stanhope Parish registers.* Cuthbert Emmerson, who was buried on the second of March, 1697, was denominated Fidler in the register, and in all probability he was a popular violinist in 1660. There were at least three other Weardale violinists at about the
9*1697—Cuthbert Emmerson, FIDLER, buried March ye 2nd.
101703—Jan. 31, Thos. son of Thomas Dixon, FIDLER, in Stanhope, baptised
111709—Nov. 10, Joseph, son of Thomas Dixon, FIDLER, baptised
121714—July 18, Jane, daughter of Wm. Portas, FIDLER do,
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