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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 3 : Mummers Plays
Folder 30 : Mummers Plays - B

Item Summary

Folder 30 : Mummers Plays - B

Intellectual Items

The Ploo Stots [play text] Mr Lawrence Lancaster (contributor), Thorganby

incipit: Wheldrake and Skipwith [note], Wheldrake, Skipwith

The Ploostotts [play text] W. Mitchell (contributor), Bubwith

Vessel Coop [custom description] Mrs George Robinson (contributor), Preston Under Scar

The New Year's Gift [custom description] Mrs George Robinson (contributor), Preston Under Scar

Pace Eggin [song text] Thomas Robinson (contributor), Preston Under Scar

See Thomas Gregg [note], Bellerby

Pay Segging [song text] Mrs J. E. Ryder (contributor), Wensleydale

incipit: This is the forest primeval [note], Escrick, York

Riding the Stang [custom description] Mr H. Thompson (contributor), Ruston

Christmas Boxing [custom description] Mr H. Thompson (contributor), Wykeham

Ripon Sword D[ance] P[lay] [play text] s, Journal of the English Folk Dance Society

incipit: John Adams [note], Ganton

The Peace Egg [play text] Mr Wallace Patrick (contributor), Luddenden , Midgeley

first line: O the next that steps in [song text] All (character)

first line: I've some eggs in my basket although I appear [song text] Tosspot (character)

first line: Come search up yer money [song text] All (character)

[Mummers] [custom description] Wm Patrick (contributor), Luddenden , Midgely

[Collop Monday] [custom description] Wm Patrick (contributor), Luddenden, Midgley

incipit: John Hartley [note]

incipit: Har thur wife [dialect transcriptions] Wm Patrick (contributor), Luddenden, Midgley

Ampleforth Version [play text] Ruben Ludley (contributor), Ampleforth

incipit: Mummers [note] Ruben Ludley (contributor), Idle

The Plough Stots [play text] Mr H. Suffield (contributor), Stillington

first line: Me clothes they are torn, and me shoes they are worn [song text]

Fond Plafe (Plough) [play text] Mr Whitfield Parker (contributor), Kirby Mooreside

Sword Dance [dance notation] D. W. Richardson? (contributor), Kirby Mooreside, Sleight Sturdy

Helmsley Sword Dance [dance notation] Horatio Magson (contributor), Helmsley

Mummers [custom description] J. Ledgeway (contributor), Knaresborough

first line: But as for meself I'm a [?] young fellow [song text]

Order [note]

Dress [note], Escrick, York

Ploo Stotts [play text] Michael Bulmer (contributor), Sowerby

first line: Good morning, gentlemen [song text] Slasher (character)

incipit: Geo. Wright [list], Sowerby

incipit: Easingwold [note], Easingwold

incipit: Mr Kit Jones [note], Preston Under Scar, Leyburn, Yorks

Bellerby Sword Dance [song text] Mr Thistlethwaite (contributor), Bellerby

Easingwold Sword Dancers [dance notation] Mr James Delaney (contributor), Easingwold

incipit: Harry Royston [note], Easingwold

Sword dancers in Thirsk [play text] Mr Sammy Garthwaite (contributor), Thirsk

Ampleforth [play text] Mr Ludley? (contributor), Ampleforth

Sword Dance at Kirby Malzeard [dance notation], Kirby Malzeard

first line: You noble spectators wherever you be [song text] Clown (character)

first line: Here comes the man that laid hands on me [song text] Clown (character)

Kirby Malzeard Sword [Dance] [song text] Mr Ralph Wood (contributor), Kirby Malzeard

incipit: Broad Yorkshire [dialect transcription] Mr [Ralph?] Wood (contributor)

incipit: 'My Moorland Patients' [note], Kirby Malzeard

incipit: The Fool Plough [custom description] George Walker, The Costumes of Yorkshire ( 1814)

Vessell Coop [custom description] Mrs F. R. Thompson (contributor), Mt Pleasant, Ampleforth

Troupes? of Ampleforth [note], Ampleforth

incipit: Robert Wright said [note], Darlington

incipit: Mr William Wright [note]

incipit: Elgubub [note], Ampleforth

incipit: Mr Garbutt knew [note], Ampleforth

[Ampleforth] [play text] Mr Robert Wright (contributor), Ampleforth

Fond Pee Afers [play text] Mrs F. R. Thompson (contributor), Ampleforth

incipit: Broad Yorkshire [dialect transcription]

incipit: Custom of wife selling [custom description], Ampleforth

Fond Pleow [play text] Mr Robert Wright (contributor), Ampleforth

Fond Pleaphing [play text] Mr Harry Wright (contributor), Ampleforth

Ampleforth Sword Dancers [play text] Mr William Garbutt (contributor), Ampleforth

first line: I wish me mother could see me now [song text] Clown (character)

first line: I'm what you call a weekly swell [song text] Clown (character)

incipit: Old Willie Wright [note], Ampleforth, Thirsk, Borough Bridge, Harrogate

The Blue Stots, Coxwold [play text] Mr A. J. Fox (contributor), Coxwold

The Blue Stots [play text] J. Ledgeway (contributor), Knarsborough

Ripon Blue Stots [play text] James Brown (contributor), Ripon

first line: Make me a room for I am a comin [song text] Troupe (character)

incipit: Mr Finney [note], Low Skelgate, Ripon

incipit: Bramleys, (George) [note], Nazborough

The Blue Stots [play text] Mr George Inman (contributor), Harrogate

The Greatham Sword Dance [play text] Mr Thomas Armstrong (contributor), Greatham

first line: They sent me before to knock at your door [song text] First Clown (character)

[Calling on Song] [song text] All, in turn (character)

first line: Goodmorrow gentlemen [song text] Clown (character)

incipit: Mr Rutherford, Scoutmaster [note], West Hartlepool, London

Greatham S[word] D[ance] [play text] Thos Armstrong (contributor), Greatham

first line: They sent me here to knock at your door [song text] Rantum Tom (character)

[Calling on Song] [song text] All, in turn (character)

first line: Good morrow gentlemen [song text] [Clown] (character)

Greatham Sword Dance [play text] Mr Jackson Rutherford, , Greatham

Britain's Roads and Character Traits [note]

Greatham Sword Dance [play text] Rutherford, , Greatham

[Calling on song] [song text] All, in turn (character)

The Guysers [play text] Mr Tom Vennar (contributor), Earsdon

Earsdon Sword Dance [play text] Mr Tom Vennar (contributor), Earsdon

[Calling on song] [song text] Captain (character)

first line: Fidler change your tune [song text] Jack (character)

Earsdon [play text] Cecil Sharp, The Sword Dances of Northern England (Pt 1 [1911])

[Calling on song] [song text] The Captain (character)

first line: An actor he is dead [song text] Bessy (character)

first line: I'm sure it's none of me [song text] No. Three (character)

first line: O now that he is dead [song text] No. Four (character)

first line: Dance on, my bonny lads [song text] Bessy (character)

Earsdon, Modern Version [song text] Cecil Sharp, The Sword Dances of Northern England (Pt 1 [1911])

Wesseling [song text] Arrowsmith (contributor), Sedgefield

New Year [song text] Arrowsmith (contributor), Sedgefield

Shrove Tuesday [custom description], Sedgefield

The Guysers [play text] Mr Thomas Thompson (contributor), Mr Joseph Smith (contributor), Sedgefield

Bellerby Sword Dance Play [play text] William Thistlethwaite (contributor), Bellerby

first line: O there isn't a family [song text] First Clown (character)

[Calling on song] [song text] All, in turn (character)

first line: Oor Lady she cooms in [song text] King (character)

first line: Just now I'm going to die [song text] Bessie (character)

first line: Good morning gentlemen [song text] Bessie (character)

The Sword Dance Play [play text] Jack Kendray (contributor), Bellerby

first line: O there isn't a family [song text] Clown (character)

first line: Good morning gentlemen [song text] Bessie (character)

incipit: Spark from France [list]

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