Browne Jigs

Here are four tunes from a manuscript held in the Armitt Library in England's Lake District. It is thought to have belonged to a musician called James Lishman and the book ended up in the possession of the Browne family. The Browne family came from the village of Troutbeck, 3 miles from the town of Windermere in the old County of Westmorland in the English Lake District, which since the boundary changes of 1974 has formed part of the new County of Cumbria. The family farm at Troutbeck is now in the possession of The National Trust. Lishman's and other Lakes manuscript books are held in the Browne family collection at the Armitt Library in Ambleside. Full information is to be found at: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Browne/Browne%20Info.html