Elizabeth Canning

This tune was published with dance instructions by Peter Thompson in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 2 Index

Elizabeth Canning (September 17, 1734 - 1773) was an Englishwoman who claimed that she had been abducted and her kidnappers tried to force her to become a prostitute.

She disappeared on January 1, 1753, and she reappeared on January 29, 1753 at her mother's house near St Mary Aldermanbury in London.

She ended up being convicted for perjury. Obviously she was such a notorious character that she had a dance named after her and published by Peter Thompson in one of his dance collections

Her full story is on Wikipedia]