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.
"Written out by a son of William Cobb, of Sapperton, in 1914. In the manuscript the speeches were indicated, as here, by numbers."
"Instruments.
Tin whistle. Jew's harp. Father Scrump carries the humpenscrump made with a tin with wires across and bridge and a stick with notches for a bow and also a sheep-bell on his rump.
Belsey Bob he wears a sheep bell and Morris bells."