Folk Play Links - Devon, 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.
001 *
Beacon Villages
[Photos of
Ramsley Pace Egg Mummers / King's Brawlers]
015 *
A Poor Man's House
[by Stephen Reynolds, 1909, p.30 - Mummers at Seacombe [Sidmouth]]
016 *
Christmas at Exeter in 1737
[by Cuthbert Bede [Rev Edward Bradley], in
Notes and Queries:, Ser.2 Vol.X No.259, 15th Dec. 1860, pp.464-465 - extract from
The Mobiad: or, Battle of the Voice, by Andrew Brice, 1770, p.90]
017 *
Down into Devonshire
[by John R. Thompson, in
The Land we Love, Vol.III No.I, May 1867, p.12 - at Sidmouth - Subscription required for Gale: Sabin Americana: 1500-1926]
020 *
Magna Britannia;
[by Rev Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, Vol.VI containing Devonshire, 1822, p.ccclv - 'Local Customs']
024 *
Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time
[by P.H. Ditchfield [Rector of Barkham], 1896, (pp.9-12 + 310-315 - [at Barkham] & paraphrasing
A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, by Major B. Lowsley, 1888, pp.17-22;) 12-15 - Stoke Gabriel fragment; (315-316, viii - at Brightwalton;) (316-320, viii - Islip text from Percy Manning Collection; 320-326 - Bampton text)]
026 *
Robert Herrick and his Vicarage
[by [], in
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol.XLVII No.CCLXXVII, Jan. 1853, p.105fn - citation of
Excursions in and about Newfoundland during the Years 1839 and 1840, by Joseph Beete Jukes, 1842, Chap.VII]
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