Folk Play Links - Cumbria, England
Compiled by Chris Little
Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.
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Epiphany and Easter Observances in Westmoreland
[by J.B. Partridge, in
Folk-Lore, Vol.XXV No.3, Sep. 1914, p.373 - "In this and the neighbouring counties young folk or mummers used to perform a sort of play, and begged for pace eggs."]
012 *
Hawkshead:
[by Henry Swainson Cowper, 1899, pp.334-337 - 'The Easter Pace-Egg Play' - Satterthwaite text & at Hawkshead]
014 *
Milnthorpe Jolly Boys
[by Duncan Broomhead, in
Buzz, No.64, Spring 2001, pp.16-18 - text - Archived]
015 *
Months at the Lakes
[by Rev H.D. Rawnsley [Vicar of Wray], 1906, p.8 - "pasch eggers" at Grasmere; (12-17 - paraphrasing
Pace-Eggin' Time, by Miss [Eleanor Foster] Simpson [later his wife], 1906)]
016 *
Pace-Egging
[by De V. Payen-Payne, in
Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.I No.25, 17th Jun. 1916, p.488 - at Grasmere]
019 *
The Christmas Boys'
[by F.Gordon Brown, in
Notes and Queries, 10th Ser. Vol.VII No.159, 12th Jan. 1907, pp.31-32 - unlocated fragment]
023 *
The Second International Folk-Lore Congress, 1891
[eds. by Joseph Jacobs & Alfred Nutt, 1892, p.436 - for what is now Thomas Fairman Ordish Collection 'Catalogue of the Exhibition of Objects Connected with Folk-Lore in the Rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House : Three Pace Eggs (Easter Eggs) from Woodbroughton, near Cartmel, Furness' - "pace-eggers" at Field Broughton & Lowick; '... : Mummers' Plays in MS., written for Miss Burne by the peasant mummers' (/ pp.463-464 - 'Conversaziane : 9.55 : The Guisers' Play' - reproduction of it as at Eccleshall)]
024 *
Whitehaven Customs
[by An Admirer of your Every-Day Book [pseud], in
The Every-Day Book;, by William Hone, Vol.II, 182?, cols.1645-1648 - 'Alexander and the King of Egypt' chapbook published by T. Wilson, Whitehaven]
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