"Timour the Tartar", also known as "Peter Street", “Babes in the Woods", “Blackling Races", “Blanchland Races", “Miller's Frolics" or “Mudville Frolic" is a Scottish reel in A Major. The parts are played AB (Athole, Emmerson, Honeyman, Hunter, S. Johnson, Kerr, Köhler, Lowe, Skinner, Skye), AABB (Raven, Shears) or AABB' (Brody, Cranford, Phillips). Timour the Tartar was otherwise known as Timur the Lame, Tamburlaine and Tamerlane. The Tartars were Mongol Turks and Timur (c. 1336 to 1405) was descended from Genghis Khan. Like his forbearer, Timur created an empire by conquest. Raised to the throne of Smarkand in Tukestan in 1369, Timur conquered huge territories from India to Syria. He died of a camp fever just before a planned invasion of China. He was the subject of a grand romantic melodrama in two acts by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), with music by Matthew Peter King. Timour the Tartar was first acted at Covent Garden in April, 1811 and was very popular. The play featured horses brought onto stage. It is not known if the fiddle tune “Timour the Tartar” comes from the play or whether it was written by M.P. King or not, however, it appears to have been associated with Lewis’s play. The alternate title "Peter Street" (the name of a street in Dublin) comes from Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, while Kerr prints it as “Babes in the Woods". It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983), Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald (1997), Emmerson's Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String (1971), Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898), Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988), S. Johnson's A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection (2003), Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880), Laybourn's Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book One (1881), Joseph Lowe's Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 1 (1844–1845), MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887), Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002), Phillips' Fiddlecase Tunebook (1989), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984), Shears' Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1 (1986), Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904), Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884), Tolman's Nelson Music Collection (1969). It was recorded by Cape Breton Symphony on Fiddle, Marie Rhines on The Reconcilliation, Horace Fellowes (1911)(78 RPM), Natalie MacMaster on My Roots are Showing (2000), Dave Swarbrick on Swarbrick (1976) and J. Scott Skinner on The Strathspey King (1975).