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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 3 : Mummers Plays
Folder 35 : Mummers Plays - G

Item Summary

Folder 35 : Mummers Plays - G

Intellectual Items

The Mummers [play text] Jack Hearring (contributor), 'Spring' Giddings (contributor), Pusey

first line: God bless the master of this house [song text] All (character)

Some Say Devils Dead [song text] Mrs S. Cook (contributor), Lower nean[?] farm, East Hannay

The Mummers [play text] Dick Eldridge (contributor), Uffington

first line: God bless the master of this house [song text] All (character)

first line: Tramp, tramp the boys are marching [song text] All (character)

first line: I'm growing old and feeble, my sight is getting dim [song text] Father Christmas (character), Old Woman (character)

[Buckland Club Feast] [note] Dick Eldridge (contributor)

The Mummers [play text] Daniel Fisher (contributor), Weston

first line: My father he gave me two acres of land [song text]

incipit: Docility of English mass mind [note]

Here comes I, Little Happy Jack [note] Jack Davis (contributor), Uffington

first line: In comes I Old Happy Jack [note] Daniel Fisher (contributor), Weston

incipit: Say, if she's got a live jack turtle [note]

Mummers Play [play text] Mr William Titchner (contributor), Stanford in the Vale

The Mummers [play text] Thomas Saunders (contributor), Sherbourne

first line: Wi the aye ding ding, the aye ding ding [song text] All (character)

The Mummers [play text] Robert Wells (contributor), Bampton

The Mummers [play text] E. Tanner (contributor), Bampton

A Christmas Mummery [play text] Oxford Times ( Dec 1929)

Escrick Sword Dance [play text] Mrs R. Bowes (contributor), Miss S. E. Hutton (contributor), Miss M. Hutton (contributor), Miss A. Hutton (contributor), Escrick

[calling on song] [song text] Clown (character)

incipit: Copper Hill, guest house [note], Cloughton, near Scarborough

Haxey Hood [custom description] Mrs Rodkin (contributor), Haxey

St George [play text] J. W. Hicks (contributor), Padstow, 9 February 1935

Madron Guise Dance [play text] J. W. Reed (contributor), Madron

A Christmas Play [play text], Truro

A Redruth Christmas Play [play text] Old Cornwall Magazine

Mylor Version [play text] Thurstan Peter, Notes & Queries

A Mummers Play [play text] Tom Miners, Old Cornwall Magazine

A Mock Play [play text] W. Sandys, Christmastide

Christmas Play of St George and the Dragon [play text] W. Sandys, Christmastide

Account of a Christmas Play [dialect transcription] Uncle Jan Treenoodle, Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialects (1846)

A Christmas Play [play text] Uncle Jan Treenoodle, Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialects (1846)

Tom Toddy [song text] All (character)

Corrections for Stanford Version [note], Stanford

Christmas Mummers of Stoneleigh [play text] Mary Dormer Harris, Notes and Queries , Stoneleigh

Mummers Play [play text] The Antiquary , Stourton, Wiltshire

Wassailers [song text] The Antiquary , Stourton, Wiltshire

Custom of Christmas Bull [custom description] The Antiquary , Stourton, Wiltshire

Guise Dances [custom description] Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England ..., (1923), Cornwall

St George [play text] Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England (1923), Cornwall

A Guise Dance Play [play text] Capt. F. J. Roskruge, Old Cornwall Magazine , St Keverne

The Ancient Mystery Play, 'St George' [play text] Rev. A. Crofton, The Ancient Mystery Play, 'St George' (1894), Settle

The Pace-Egg Mummers Song [song text] All, in turn (character)

Sword Dance Play, Hunton Version [note] John Carlin (contributor), Hunton

The Peace Egg or St George's Annual Play [play text] Halifax Courier and Guardian

Bassingham Children's Play [play text] Chas Read Baskerville, Modern Philology , Bassingham

first line: Good master and good misteriss [song text] All (character)

first line: We will have a jovel wedding [song text] Lady and Fool (character)

first line: Good master and good mistress now our fool is gone [song text] St George, Eldest Son and Farmer Man (character)

A Christmas Play [play text] [Charles Read Baskervill], Modern Philology , Broughton

first line: Be she gone be she gone [song text] Two Ribboners (character)

first line: My love My dear My dove My duck [song text] Fool (character)

first line: Alas sweetheart you are mis-tain [song text] Fool (character)

Recruiting Sergent [play text] [Charles Read Baskervill], Modern Philology

Swinderby [play text] [Charles Read Baskervill], Modern Philology , Swinderby

first line: So now our sport is ended [song text] All (character)

Modern Philology [note]

Escrick Sword Dance [play text] Cecil Sharp, Sword Dances of Northern England (1913), Escrick

incipit: Pictures [note], Alford, Lincolnshire

[Pop goes the weasel] [song text]

Sword Dance [play text] R. Bell, Ancient Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England (1857?), Co. Durham

Arkengarthdale [song text] Journal of the English Folk Dance Society , Arkengarthdale

Good King 'Enry [song text] Miss Maud Carples, Journal of the English Folk Dance Society

By your Leaves [song text] Miss Maude Carples, Journal of the English Folk Dance Society

Th' Owd Lass of Coverdill [song text] Miss Maude Carples, Journal of the English Folk Dance Society

incipit: R. Bell - Ancient Poems and Ballads [note]

Congreve's Love for Love [note]

Cheviotdale Guizards [play text] R. Murray, The Border Treasury of Things New and Old , Ancrum, Hawick

first line: But since we're all revived again [song text] All (character)

The Derbyshire Mumming Play of St George and the Dragon [play text] Gwen John, Folk-Lore

Christmas Rhymes in the North of Ireland [play text] W. H. Patterson, Notes and Queries , Belfast

Plough Jags [play text] [Gutch and Peacock], County Folk-Lore Vol. V, Lincolnshire (1908), Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire

first line: In comes a lady bright and gay [song text] Lady (character)

first line: Good master and good mistress [song text] All (character)

Plough Jags [play text] [Gutch and Peacock], County Folk-Lore Vol. V, Lincolnshire (1908), Axholme, Lincolnshire

An English Christmas Play [play text] Antoinette Taylor, Journal of American Folklore , Broadway, Worcestershire

first line: Here's health to her stock [song text] All (character)

Robin Hood and Little John [play text] Alfred Williams, Round About the Upper Thames (1922), Englesham

The Mumming Play [play text] Quarry Women's Institute, The History of the Civil Parishof Headington Quarries (1928), Headington Quarry

Mummers Play [play text] Alfred Williams, Folk Songs of the Upper Thames (1923), Bampton, Aston

James M. Carpenter [note]

incipit: The Peace Egg [note]

Church & Chapel [note]

Stubborness of old social order [note]

incipit: Finmere - Ernest Coles [note] Ernest Coles (contributor), Finmere

Death Duties [note]

British peasant's ignorance of New World [note]

Sunday Observer [note], 1 April 1934

incipit: Academic or Village [note]

[Library Notes] [note]

incipit: Bidford - Smith - Henley [note] George Henley (contributor), Bidford

[Mummers] [note]

[Song List] [list]

[Mummers Plays] [note]

H. Goddard [note], Reading

[Mummers] [note] J. Thacker (contributor), Bishops Thatchbrook

Holton [note] Arthur Messenger (contributor), Holton, Forest Hill

[Farm income] [note] Mr Hardy (contributor), North Cerney

[Farm income] [note] Blackwell (contributor)

The Peace Egg [note]

Painswick Clipping [note], Painswick

[Name list] [list]

[Name List] [list]

[Wassailing Song] [song text]

[Name List] [list]

Mummers [list]

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