ABSTRACT
Burton Constable Hall is situated some 8 miles east of Hull, in the district known as Holderness, where the Constable family has been important landowners since the thirteenth century. A collection of sheet music there has recently been reassembled from the places in the house where it had languished for some time, and both this sheet music and bound volumes have been cleaned. The interest of historians in Burton Constable has chiefly centred upon the eighteenth century and a very considerable and important collection of material relevant to the study of the history of science. The handwritten music consists of about 24 bound volumes and a box of unbound music, nearly 100 items in total. These ‘items’ range from a single leaf to a small bundle of individual parts sewn together or punched and tied with home-made ribbon bows.
