"Portsmouth", also known as "Portsmouth Hornpipe" is an English hornpipe or country dance in cut time and E Flat Major (Chappell) or G Major (Barnes, Raven, Sharp). The parts are played AB (Chappell), AAB (Sharp) or AABB (Barnes, Playford, Raven). The air, probably a ballad tune according to Chappell, appears with country dance directions in Henry Playford's Dancing Master (11th edition of 1701 and all later editions). Ralph Vaughan Williams used the melody in the "Sea Songs" movementof his English Folk Song Suite (1923) along with "Admiral Benbow" and "The Bold Princess Royal". According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in the year 501 a Saxon named Port landed at the area of Hampshire later known as Portsmouth with his two sons and killed a young British nobleman. The first docks were established in Portsmouth in 1194 by Richard I. The French burned them in 1369, but it was Henry VII who developed a dockyard there in 1496. It was printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master (1986), Barnes' English Country Dance Tunes (1986), Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol. 2 (1859), John Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). It was recorded by Hesperus on Early American Roots (1997).