[Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire Border], Lincolnshire
P.S.Jeffrey (1923)
Percy Shaw Jeffrey (Auth.)
WHITBY LORE AND LEGEND: SECOND EDITION ENLARGED. JUNE 1923 [Plough Monday Play from the Notts./Lincs. Border]
Whitby: Horne & Son, 1923, pp.199-201
Full text (86 lines) of a Plough Monday play from the Notts./Lincs. border,
with the characters; Tom Fool, Sergeant, Doctor, Lady, Ancient, Beelzebub and
Dame Jane. It is introduced as follows;
"We give below the full text of a 'Mummers Play,' as performed on the
Nottingham and Lincolnshire borders. This, like all such village plays
of the Northern counties, is of unknown antiquity and has maintained its
traditional text unaltered for generations, no sacrilegious hand having
dared to improve its rhymes or change its halting metres."
This is evidently the same text as in Yorkshire Evening Post (1923) [TD00261]
Yorkshire Evening Post (1923)
*[Anon.] (Auth.)
*Mumming night in the farmer's kitchen [Notts./Lincs. border]
*Yorkshire Evening Post,
17th Jan.1923, No.10085, p.6 g-h
*Christmas play from the Notts./Lincs., border, with the characters; Tom
Fool, Sergeant, Doctor, Lady, Ancient, Beelzebub and Dame Jane
* indicates data that not yet been validated against the original source and/or has yet to be completely indexed.
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