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Cheshire Play - Before 1788
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74 of 74 lines
100%
1788
J.Pearce's Mummers' Act or Morris Dancers 'Chapbook - 1837-1849
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39 of 215 lines
18%
1837-1849
W.Walker's Peace Egg Chapbook - 1840-1877
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38 of 166 lines
22%
1840-1877
Pace, Peace, or Paste Egging [Hulme, 1842]
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38 of 180 lines
21%
1842
Play from Hamstall Ridware - 1884
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37 of 152 lines
24%
1884
The Peace Egg : A Christmas Mumming Play - 1884
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35 of 330 lines
10%
1884
A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers - 1849
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34 of 116 lines
29%
1849
Mummies, St.Kitts, New Year's Day 1966
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32 of 233 lines
13%
1966
Newport Version [Christmas Morris-Dancers' Play, Shropshire, 1879]
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30 of 134 lines
22%
1879
Cumnor: Christmas Mummers, played since 1895 annually.
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29 of 148 lines
19%
1895
South West Dorset Mummers' Play 1880
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27 of 183 lines
14%
1880
Waterstock, Oxfordshire play - 1914
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27 of 95 lines
28%
1914
Mummies, Pot Works, Nevis, 1930s
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27 of 204 lines
13%
1930-1939
The Mummers, [Appleford, Berks., 1880s]
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26 of 100 lines
26%
1880-1889
Penkridge Christmas Play, 1899
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26 of 142 lines
18%
1899
The Salvage Play, Newfoundland, c.1900
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26 of 144 lines
18%
1900
The Somercotes Guisers, 1942-1945
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25 of 93 lines
26%
1942-1945
Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s
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24 of 258 lines
9%
1785-1789
Dendron Pace Egg Mummers Play, 1904
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24 of 121 lines
19%
1904
Christmas: his Pageant Play, or Mysterie of "St.George" - 1842
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23 of 193 lines
11%
1842
The Mummers, Uffington, Berkshire [1860s]
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23 of 175 lines
13%
1860-1869
The Paceakers' Play, Heptonstall - 1909
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23 of 94 lines
24%
1909
4. Church Broughton, Derbyshire. [1930]
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22 of 48 lines
45%
1930
"Saint George and Slasher" - Sandbach, 1817
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21 of 97 lines
21%
1817
Brimington Mummers' Play [Derbyshire, 1862]
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21 of 72 lines
29%
1862-1868
The Mummers, Drayton, Berks. [c.1883]
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20 of 96 lines
20%
1883
Soldiers acting at Christmas, Change Islands, Newfoundland - 1900
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20 of 119 lines
16%
1900
5. "Guisers" play on Xmas Eve, Repton, Derbyshire, Jan., 1909.
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20 of 59 lines
33%
1909
Souling Play from Huxley, Cheshire, 1913
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20 of 95 lines
21%
1913
Selston Mummers' Play - 1913
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20 of 74 lines
27%
1913
The Silverton Mummers' Rhymes - 1873
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19 of 270 lines
7%
1873
Ovingdean, Sussex play - 1870
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19 of 98 lines
19%
1870
Christmas play from Dromore - 1886
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19 of 114 lines
16%
1886
Mid-Berkshire Mummers 1888
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19 of 112 lines
16%
1888
Sompting Tipteerers's Play, 1882
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19 of 70 lines
27%
1882
2. Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks. [Mummers, 1900]
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18 of 73 lines
24%
1900
Cornish Christmas Play - 1833
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17 of 72 lines
23%
1833
The Mummers [Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, 1880s]
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17 of 81 lines
20%
1880-1889
Edith Weston Morris-Dancers Play, c.1898
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17 of 105 lines
16%
1898
Mumming Play from Longborough, Glos. - 1905-1906
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17 of 138 lines
12%
1905-1906
Mummers: Pusey, Berks., c.1900
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17 of 96 lines
17%
1900
The White Boys [Isle of Man] 1845
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16 of 111 lines
14%
1845
Christmas Play of St.George and the Dragon [West of England, 1852]
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16 of 67 lines
23%
1852
Mummers' Play from Upper & Lower Howsell, Worcs. - 1856-1857
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16 of 91 lines
17%
1856-1857
Bellerby Sword Dance Play, 1879 & 1926
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16 of 182 lines
8%
1879
Christmas Rhymers from Mullaghcarton - 1885
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16 of 72 lines
22%
1885
Boys' play from Braganstown - 1890
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16 of 79 lines
20%
1890
Christmas Play from Bursledon, Hants. - 1913-1916
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16 of 73 lines
21%
1913-1916
Words of the Ripon Sword-Dance - 1920
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16 of 65 lines
24%
1920
Buckland Marsh, Berks., Mumering Play
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16 of 191 lines
8%
1912-1913
Burntwood Guisers' Play [Staffordshire, pre-1939]
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16 of 77 lines
20%
1939
Guysers Play from Underwood, Notts., 1935 & 1936
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16 of 73 lines
21%
1935-1936
J.White's Alexander Chapbook - 1746-1769
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15 of 137 lines
10%
1746-1769
Romsey Mummers' Play - 1796-1837
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15 of 71 lines
21%
1796-1837
Christmas Gysarts Play from Bowden - 1815
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15 of 71 lines
21%
1815
Morrissing in North Notts. - 1845-1850
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15 of 67 lines
22%
1845-1850
Christmas Boys or Mummers, Potterne, 1876-1890
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15 of 73 lines
20%
1876-1890
Atkinson's "St. George and the Turkish Knight", 1885
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15 of 129 lines
11%
1885
Mummers' Play from Hamstall Ridware (Staffs.) 1884
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15 of 60 lines
25%
1884
Kirk Hallam Christmas Guisers Play - 1907
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15 of 50 lines
30%
1907
Johnny Jacks Play from Overton, Hants. - 1913
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15 of 119 lines
12%
1913
Christmas Mummers of Stoneleigh [1925]
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15 of 93 lines
16%
1925
Belfast Christmas Rhyme - Smyth & Lyons (1803-1818)
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14 of 79 lines
17%
1803-1818
Galation from the Abbotsford Collection Text (a) 1812-1832
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14 of 65 lines
21%
1812-1832
A Christmas Play from Keynsham [Hunter] 1822
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14 of 87 lines
16%
1822
Falkirk Play, 1841
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14 of 22 lines
63%
1841
Lutterworth St. George Play - 1863
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14 of 68 lines
20%
1863
Christmas Rhymers in the North of Ireland : Belfast 1872
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14 of 79 lines
17%
1872
Hawkshead Easter Pace-Egg Play - 1898
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14 of 105 lines
13%
1898
Mummers' Play from Skelton (Yorkshire) 1930
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14 of 47 lines
29%
1930
T.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook [1810-1826]
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13 of 107 lines
12%
1810-1826
Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816
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13 of 81 lines
16%
1815-1816
Bassingham Men's play 1823 Xmas
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13 of 109 lines
11%
1823
The Christmas Mummers [Yonge's novel] 1858
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13 of 78 lines
16%
1858
Christmas Mummers' Play from Weston-sub-Edge, Glos. - 1864
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13 of 195 lines
6%
1864
South Notts Plough Bullock Day Play - 1873
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13 of 39 lines
33%
1873
Plough Jacks' Play from Willoughton - 1889
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13 of 67 lines
19%
1889
The Mummers; Steventon, Berks. [c.1883]
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13 of 109 lines
11%
1883
Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899
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13 of 61 lines
21%
1899
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 1 - 1908
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13 of 126 lines
10%
1908
Play from Malvern, Worcs. - 1913-1916
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13 of 58 lines
22%
1913-1916
The Mummers' Act from Cuddesdon, Oxon - 1914
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13 of 50 lines
26%
1914
Farnsfield Plough Play [Nottinghamshire, 1966]
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13 of 145 lines
8%
1966
Ballybrennan, Wexford play - about 1823
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12 of 64 lines
18%
1817-1818
Mummers Play - Stanford in the Vale [1887]
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12 of 74 lines
16%
1887
The Mummers Play (as acted at Holton, Oxfordshire...)
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12 of 114 lines
10%
1893
Boys' play from Dundalk - 1915
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12 of 48 lines
25%
1915
Play from Great Wolford, Warks. - 1913-1916
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12 of 58 lines
20%
1913-1916
Mummers' Play from Coxwold (Yorkshire) 1930
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12 of 33 lines
36%
1930
Bull Guysering Play from Selston, Notts. - 1932
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12 of 54 lines
22%
1932
Belcoo Christmas Play, c.1940
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12 of 53 lines
22%
1940
Plough Jagg's Play : Bassingham - 1952
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12 of 180 lines
6%
1952
Primary Script: Cheshire Play - Before 1788
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Tragedy of St.George, St.John's, Newfoundland, c.1840
The Salvage Play, Newfoundland, c.1900
Soldiers acting at Christmas, Change Islands, Newfoundland - 1900
Mummies, Pot Works, Nevis, 1930s
Mummies, St.Kitts, New Year's Day 1966
Mumming Play as acted at Hatford, Berks, 1840
The Mummers: East Hendred [1840s]
Mummers at Charney, Berks. 1860
The Mummers, Uffington, Berkshire [1860s]
East Lockinge Christmas Mummers, c.1880
The Mummers, [Appleford, Berks., 1880s]
Mummers' Play from Lockinge, 1881
The Mummers, Drayton, Berks. [c.1883]
The Mummers; Steventon, Berks. [c.1883]
Mummers Play - Stanford in the Vale [1887]
Text Fragments of Compton Mummers, Berks. - 1888
Mid-Berkshire Mummers 1888
Longcot, Nr Faringdon, Berks. Mummers' Play
Cumnor: Christmas Mummers, played since 1895 annually.
2. Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks. [Mummers, 1900]
Mummers: Pusey, Berks., c.1900
The Sutton Courtenay Version [c.1910-1936]
Mummers' Play from Tubney nr. Oxford, 1912
Buckland Marsh, Berks., Mumering Play
Sunningwell, Berks. [pre-1913]
1. Childrey, Berks. [Fragment - 1926]
3. Witley [sic], Reading, Berks. [1930]
Christmas rhyme from J.Ray (1670)
Cheshire Play - Before 1788
"Saint George and Slasher" - Sandbach, 1817
Souling Play from Stapleford, Cheshire, 1908 to 1914
Souling Play from Huxley, Cheshire, 1913
Rudheath (Cheshire) Souling Play [1949]
Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s
Tredrea Christmas Play - 1822
Cornish Christmas Play - 1827
Cornish Christmas Play - 1833
Guise-Dance Play, Saint Keverne [Cornwall, 1855]
A Redruth Christmas Play : 1910-1925
Camborne, Cornwall : The Christmas Play - 1913-1916
T.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook [1810-1826]
6. "The Sword-dancers" Cumberland. [1930]
Christmas Play from Blennerhasset, Cumberland 1930
A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers - 1849
Brimington Mummers' Play [Derbyshire, 1862]
The Derby Ram, 1867
The Old Tup, Castleton, 1901
Kirk Hallam Christmas Guisers Play - 1907
The Old Horse, North Derbyshire [1907]
5. "Guisers" play on Xmas Eve, Repton, Derbyshire, Jan., 1909.
4. Church Broughton, Derbyshire. [1930]
The Somercotes Guisers, 1942-1945
Old Tup, Staveley, Mrs.Wragg's Version, 1946
The Old Tup, Staveley, Mr.Gascoyne's Version, 1946
T'Owd Tup, Eckington, 1969
T'Owd Tup - Eckington, 1969
Exeter Fragment, 1737 or 1770
The Silverton Mummers' Rhymes - 1873
Christmas Play from Bovey Tracey - 1913-1916
South West Dorset Mummers' Play 1880
Symondsbury Mummers' Play 1880
The Mummers [Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, 1880s]
Sword Dancers, Durham, 1834
Gainford, Durham, Sword-Dance Play - 1860
"Sword Dancers" play, Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham [1913-1915]
Greatham Sword Dance Play - 1924
The Guisers' Play, from High Spen, Co.Durham [1925]
Christmas Mummers' Play from Weston-sub-Edge, Glos. - 1864
Christmas Mummers Play from Kempsford, Glos. - 1868
Mumming Play from Longborough, Glos. - 1905-1906
Christmas Play from Cinderford, Glos. - 1913-1916
Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
Christmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914
South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play
Romsey Mummers' Play - 1796-1837
Christmas: his Pageant Play, or Mysterie of "St.George" - 1842
The Christmas Mummers [Yonge's novel] 1858
Christmas Play from Hampshire - 1859
Hampshire Mummers [Fragments, 1861]
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 1 - 1908
Johnny Jacks Play from Overton, Hants. - 1913
Christmas Play from Bursledon, Hants. - 1913-1916
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 2 - 1914
Christmas Champions play from Westerham, Kent [c.1896-97]
The Peace Egg Book [R.Carr, 1836-1838]
Pace, Peace, or Paste Egging [Hulme, 1842]
Atkinson's "St. George and the Turkish Knight", 1885
Hawkshead Easter Pace-Egg Play - 1898
Dendron Pace Egg Mummers Play, 1904
Fragment from Ormskirk (Lancashire) : Pace-egging Song - 1930
Lutterworth St. George Play - 1863
The "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779
Morrice Dancers at Revesby - 1779
Bassingham Men's play 1823 Xmas
Bassingham Childrens play Xmas 1823
Recruiting Sergeant [1823-1888]
A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824
Swinderby Decr. 31st 1842 Play
Plough-Jags' Ditties from North Lincolnshire - 1876
New Holland Mummers [1880]
Plough Jacks' Play from Willoughton - 1889
Morris Dancers' play Fragment from Mumby - 1890
Lincolnshire Plough Jags play - 1890
Kirton-in-Lindsey Plough-Jags Play - 1890
Play from Brattleby, Lincolnshire, 1894
Hibaldstow Ploughboys' Play -1901
Plough Monday fragment from Winterton - 1901
Play from Bulby, Lincs. - 1913-1916
Jerusalem, Lincs., Plough Play - 1914
The "Plough Jacks'" Play from Kirmington, Lincs. - 1923
Plough Jagg's Play : Bassingham - 1952
Chiswick Mummers' play, 1860
Helpston Moris Dance Drama - Clare's text - 1825
Northamptonshire Tander Mumming Fragments - 1851
Mumming [Thenford, Northants. 1854]
Mumies Play from Badby, Northants. - 1913-1916
Sulgrave Mummers' Play [Northamptonshire, 1921]
J.White's Alexander Chapbook - 1746-1769
The Sword Dancers, Tyne & Wear, 1815
The Mummers [Allendale, 1860-1870]
Scremerston Guizards, Northumberland [before 1913]
Recruiting Speech of 1796
Morrissing in North Notts. - 1845-1850
South Notts Plough Bullock Day Play - 1873
South Scarle Plough Monday Play, 1882
King George Play from Kirkby Woodhouse, Notts. - 1887
Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play - 1890
Blidworth Plough Bullocking Play, 1896
The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902]
The Little Tup, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., 1906
Selston Mummers' Play - 1913
A Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916
Another Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916
North Muskham, Notts. - Plough Monday Play - 1914
Plough Boy's Play - Edingley Version [Notts., 1920s]
Bull Guysering Play from Selston, Notts. - 1932
Guysers Play from Underwood, Notts., 1935 & 1936
The Plough Boys (from Tollerton, Nottinghamshire) 1950
Calverton Plough Monday Play Fragment, 1951
Farnsfield Plough Play [Nottinghamshire, 1966]
The Islip Mummers' Play of 1780
Oxfordshire Christmas Mummers play - 1794
Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816
Mummers at Christmas (1840) [Chipping Norton]
The Christmas Play - Bampton Mummers 1847
The Mummers' Performance, Lower Heyford - 1885
The Mummers Play (as acted at Holton, Oxfordshire...)
Play from Leafield, Oxfordshire - 1913-1916
Mumming Play, Aston, Bampton & Chimney District [1926]
Bold Robin Hood : Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon. - 1913-1916
Waterstock, Oxfordshire play - 1914
The Mummers' Act from Cuddesdon, Oxon - 1914
Edith Weston Morris-Dancers Play, c.1898
Plough-Monday Play from Clipsham, Rutland, 1904
Newport Version [Christmas Morris-Dancers' Play, Shropshire, 1879]
Cure at Bristol Fair 1770
A Christmas Play from Keynsham [Hunter] 1822
Christmas Play from North Somerset - 1913-1916
Play from Hamstall Ridware - 1884
Mummers' Play from Hamstall Ridware (Staffs.) 1884
Penkridge Christmas Play, 1899
Burntwood Guisers' Play [Staffordshire, pre-1939]
2 Chiddingfold (Surrey) tip-teering play [1860]
Ovingdean, Sussex play - 1870
Sompting Tipteerers's Play, 1882
Tipteerers' Duologue from Cocking, Sussex - 1903-1906
Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899
Broadwell Christmas Play, 1900 or 1901
Play from Great Wolford, Warks. - 1913-1916
Play from Pillerton, Warks. - 1913-1916
Play from Ilmington, Warks. - 1913-1916
Christmas Mummers of Stoneleigh [1925]
Pace-Egging from Ambleside (Westmorland) 1930
Inglesham Christmas Play - 1840 to 1850
Christmas Boys or Mummers, Potterne, 1876-1890
Mummers' Play from Alton Barnes (Wiltshire) 1930
Mummers' Play from Upper & Lower Howsell, Worcs. - 1856-1857
Play from Malvern, Worcs. - 1913-1916
J.Pearce's Mummers' Act or Morris Dancers 'Chapbook - 1837-1849
W.Walker's Peace Egg Chapbook - 1840-1877
Walker's New Mummer, or, The Wassail Cup - 1855
Bellerby Sword Dance Play, 1879 & 1926
The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888
Plough Boy's Play from Selby - 1892
The Old Tup, Braithwell, 1895
Ampleforth Play - 1898
The Paceakers' Play, Heptonstall - 1909
Words of the Ripon Sword-Dance - 1920
Mummers' Play from Skelton (Yorkshire) 1930
Mummers' Play from Coxwold (Yorkshire) 1930
"Spectrvm" from "Wily Begvuilde" 1606
Vindication of Christmas - Speech - 1653
126 : Robin Hood and the Tanner [Ballad] 1663
Diphilo and Granida - 1673
Congreve's Love for Love, Act 3, Scene 6 - 1695
S.Nicholls' Infallible Doctor Broadside - 1700-1740
Infallible Mountebank - 1707
Rosamond, an Opera - 1707
King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France - 1730
The Honest Yorkshireman [Extract] 1736
Second thoughts are best [dialogue ballad] 1780-1812
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
The Old Horse [1819-1844]
"Young Roger of the Mill" Broadside - 1820-1824
Mummers: Penny Magazine - 1837
A New Dialogue Between a Husbandman and a Servant Man - Before 1838
Christmas Play of St.George and the Dragon [West of England, 1852]
"When good King Arthur ruled this land" 1871
The Four Champions of Great Britain - 1879-1884
The Peace Egg : A Christmas Mumming Play - 1884
Belfast Christmas Rhyme - Smyth & Lyons (1803-1818)
Christmas Rhymers in the North of Ireland : Belfast 1872
Christmas Rhymers from Mullaghcarton - 1885
Christmas play from Dromore - 1886
Belcoo Christmas Play, c.1940
Boys' play from Braganstown - 1890
Boys' play from Dundalk - 1915
Ballybrennan, Wexford play - about 1823
The White Boys [Isle of Man] 1845
Cumnock Play, c.1883
Christmas Gysarts Play from Bowden - 1815
Culross play, 1893
The New Year Mummers' Tale of Galaschin - Forfarshire 1888
Christmas, Yule-Boys play from Galloway - 1824
Laurieston Hallowe'en Play (a), 1897
Laurieston Play (b), 1897
Hallowe'en Play from Balmaghie, 1897
Galatian, a New-Year Play [from Peebles] 1841
Crieff Guisers' Play, 1884
Guisards Play from the Abbotsford Collection Text (b) 1812-1832
Galation from the Abbotsford Collection Text (a) 1812-1832
Scott's Papa Stour Sword Dance - 1788
Stirling Play of Galations, 1835
Hogmany Play from Falkirk - J.W.Reddock, 1825
Falkirk Play, 1841
The Turkish Knight [Fragments. Caney Creek, Kentucky, 1925]
The Christmas Play, Gander, Kentucky, 1930
A Plough Monday Play [Kentucky, c.1860]
Christmas Play from Llanmadoc and Cheriton - 1879
Tenby Guisers' Play - 1857
Dunvant Christmas Sport, Collected 1916
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