Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
This text is incorporated in a factually-based story relating to 90-year old "grandfather Elijah of Inglesham" (p.294). The play was acted by the Mummers when he was a boy - probably about 1840 to 1850.
Williams' Notes:p.232 "At Christmas-time the mummers went about playing Robin Hood or St. George, or, with a collection of old and new songs, perambulated the town and paid visits to the villages and remote farmhouses, where they were well received and entertained."
Peter Millington's Notes:Initially encoded from a manuscript copy in the R.Morton Nance Collection in the Courtney Library, The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro.
R.M.Nance's Notes:"This was probably intended as a Summer Play, for May Day, (Gloucester, Oxfordshire are Xmas also). The Doctor is most likely as vital to it, however, as he is to the St. George Play, which was in use with this of Robin Hood, although the two were kept distinct. A.W. mentions this but does not print the current version. The song at the end is a version of the Dabbling in the dew song, the Cor. Delkion Sevy, but is cut down considerably. It would be easy to restore most of the early part of Robin Hood to its original state, although a good many lines are altered. All except the introduction & the Doctor & Jack Vinney's speeches is taken from the St. ballad R.H. and the Tanner. The speeches are wrongly attributed and the fight between the Tanner & Little John is added. The adaptation must first have been made in Hampshire."