Folk Play Links - Lincolnshire, 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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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945
[by British Museum, pt.I: Descriptions, 1970, pp.14-15; pt.II: Index, 1970, pp.489, 581, 627, 789, 805, 868 - '... 1936 : Add. Ms. 44870' - Revesby text]
008 *
Christmastide
[by W.Henry Jones [Vicar of Mumby], in
Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, Vol.II Pt.1, Jan. 1890, p.21 - Mumby morris dancers fragment]
013 *
James Madison Carpenter and the Mummers' Play
[citation of Steve Roud & Paul Smith, in
Folk Music Journal, Vol.7 No.4, 1998, pp.498-513 - (Garsington (2), Ampleforth (2) &) Elsham texts from James Madison Carpenter Collection]
017 *
Morris Dance at Revesby
[by T.Fairman Ordish, in
Folk-Lore Journal, Vol.VII No.5, ??? 1889, pp.331-356 - text [- now British Library Add. Ms. 44870]]
018 *
North Lincolnshire Council [image archive]
[Photos of Plough Jags at Burton-upon-Stather, West Halton?, West Halton (1898), Burringham (1932), Carlton (1934), Scopwick, Scotter x3, Burringham (1953), Barrow-on-Humber (1951) x2 & Burringham (pre 1914) x2]
019 *
Observations on Popular Antiquities: [with additions]
[by John Brand, rev. by Henry Ellis, 1813, Vol.I pp.400-403 - 'Sword Dance' - fnG - ([Thomas] Park notes Morris-Dancers [at Heighington ?];) extract from Revesby text [- now British Library Add. Ms. 44870]; (paraphrasing
Mode of celebrating Christmas in Yorkshire, by R. S. [Robert Surtees], in
Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, Vol.LXXXI Pt.1:May (New Ser. Vol.4), Jan.-Jun. 1811, pp.423-424)]
020 *
Plough Jags
[by E.Bentley Wood, in
Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, Vol.II Pt.3, Jul. 1890, pp.88-89 - unlocated text]
021 *
Plough Monday Mummeries
[by J.T. F., in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.VII No.181, 15th Jun. 1901, p.477 - ohs is the Lincolnshire form of who's - see below]
022 *
Plough Monday Mummeries
[by John Pickford, in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.VII No.181, 15th Jun. 1901, p.477 - citation of
The Book of Days, ed. by R. Chambers, Vol.I, 18??, pp.84-86; (
Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, 1878)]
023 *
Plough Monday Mummeries [I]
[by Mabel Peacock, in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.VII No.174, 27th Apr. 1901, pp.322-324 - Hibaldstow "plough-jags" text; Winterton fragment; western slope of the Wolds text]
024 *
Plough Monday Mummeries [II]
[by Mabel Peacock, in
Notes and Queries, 9th Ser. Vol.VII No.176, 11th May 1901, pp.363-365 - Kirton in Lindsey text; tup at Walton-le-Dale near [?] Tattershall; (extract from
Queen, 1st Jan. 1898, p.15bc - on Isle of Man)]
025 *
Plough-Jags
[by J.T. F., in
Notes and Queries, 12th Ser. Vol.VI No.101, Feb. 1920, p.35 - at Burton upon Stather; citation of N.E.D. - entry for 'Plough-Jags'; citation of
Between Trent and Ancholme, by Fowler, 1908, p.316 - at Bottesford]
026 *
Plough-Jags
[by M.G.W. P. [Mabel G.W. Peacock], in
Lincolnshire Notes & Queries, Vol.I Pt.2, Apr. 1888, p.51 - can any reader furnish a text?]
028 *
S. John Baptist College
[by William Holden Hutton, 1898, pp.73-74 - at [Gate Burton ?] mid-Lincolnshire & (Oxfordshire [Oxford ?])]
029 *
The Boys Spring Book
[by Thomas Miller, 1847, pp.45-46 - masking (non-play?) as Robin Hood [at Gainsborough]]
032 *
The Pilgrim College Archive
[citation of Patrick O' Shaughnessy, in
Lincolnshire Past & Present, No.17, Autumn 1994, pp.12-13 - "The archive contained an extensive collection of Lincolnshire plough plays,"]
033 *
The Straw Bear of the Plough-Witchers
[by Cuthbert Bede [Rev Edward Bradley], in
Notes and Queries, 7th Ser. Vol.I No.5, 30th Jan. 1886, p.86 - at [Lenton]; (extract from
Ramsey, in
Peterborough Advertiser, 16th Jan. 1886)]
037 *
Three Mumming Plays
[citation of Alan Brody, in
English Literary Renaissance, Vol.3 No.1, Winter 1973, pp.105-130 - Branston, Lincolnshire text from Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Collection; (unlocated, Kent text from Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Collection;) Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire text from Maurice Willmore Barley Collection]
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