Nottinghamshire Guardian (1909a)
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PLOUGH MONDAY.
The Folk Lore Journal for June. 1893, con- tains a paper hy Mr. T. Fairman Ordish on "Eng- lish Folk Drama." On the occasion of a corres- ponding meeting of the F. L. Society, a version of the Plough Monday play was exhibited for inspec- tion, as well as the very interesting dress worn by the actors of this version, as repeeted;y witnessed by Mrs. Chaworth Musters at her residence, Wiverton Hall, near Bingham. In the course of an accom- panying letter, this lady wrote to Mr. Ordish:- "I hope that if all is well another year, I may have the pleasure of seeings some members of the Folk Lore Socicty here for P1ough Monday, and I hope the play will not die out in this Neighbour- hood for long, as the actors this time were all youths who had learned their parts by word of mouth. I had some difficulty in getting a copy of the words a few years ago, as it seems never to have been written down, but I did get it, very ill- spelt and difficult to make out, except that I heard it several times; and I had it printed in the ap- pendix of a Notts. story I wrote, so that it might be preserved. The same version seems to be known in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Norampton- shire. I wish I could have got a photograph of the performers, but they could only come in the evening, being farm labourers . . . .. Little boys with ribbons on came round begging in all the villages in the Vale of Belvoir here, on Plough Monday, but no women or girls ever seem to take part in it". |
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