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.


Groups

001 * Coleby Plough Jag (/ Scunthorpe Folk Song Club) [photos; audio; video; programme]
002 * Grimsby Morris Men [photos]

Publications

003 * A Glossary of Words used in South-West Lincolnshire (Wapentake of Graffoe) [by Rev R.E.G. Cole [Rector of Doddington], 1886, p.112 - entry for 'Plough-Jacks']
004 * An accumulation of Hobby Horses [Re:] [by E.C. Cawte, in Musical Traditions - Comments that it's probably not a Plough Play gang.]
005 * An accumulation of Hobby Horses. Who? Where? When? Any ideas? [by Tom Chambers, in Musical Traditions - Comments that photo could be of a Plough Play "double gang".]
006 * 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]
007 * Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 [1894, pp.18, 587, 719 - 'бн 1888 : Add. Ms. 33418' - Bassingham Men's + Children's, Broughton A + B + C, Swinderby & unlocated texts]
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]
009 * From Theater to Ritual: A Study of the Revesby Mummers' Play [Book for sale: by Esha Niyogi De, in Oral Tradition in the Middle Ages, ed. by W.F.H. Nicolaisen, 1995]
010 * FTX-105 - In Comes I, Tom Fool : Lincolnshire Plough Plays [CD for sale: Audio of Barrow-on-Humber Plough Play, 1954 and Helpringham.]
011 * History of the Holy Trinity Guild, at Sleaford, [by Rev G. Oliver [Vicar of Scopwick], 1837, pp.117, 83fn-84fn - fragment]
012 * J.M. Carpenter, Ethel Rudkin and the Plough Plays of Lincolnshire [citation of Eddie Cass, in Folk Life, Vol.41, 2003]
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]
014 * Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire [by Graham Platts, 1985, p.278]
015 * Lincolnshire Archives : Foster Library : Plough Plays Bibliography
016 * Lincolnshire Folk Archive [Ref. LFA] [The Pilgrim College Archive]
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?]
027 * Records in Other Custody : Revesby Abbey [in Archivist's Report, No.18, Apr. 1966 - Mar. 1967, p.76 - "a plough play (? Revesby) copied by S.S. Banks, 1779"]
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]]
030 * The Kirmington Plough-Jags Play [citation of Ruairidh Greig, in Folk Music Journal, Vol.3 No.3, 1977, pp.233-241]
031 * The Life of Sir Joseph Banks [by Edward Smith, 1911, p.306 - Mummers at Revesby]
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)]
034 * The Vikings: Traces of Their Folklore in Marshland [by Rev R.M. Heanley [Rector of Weyhill, Hampshire], in Saga-Book of the Viking Club, Vol.III, Pt.1, 1901, p.40 - "guisers" or sword dancers at Wainfleet]
035 * The Vikings: Traces of Their Folklore in Marshland [citation of Rev R.M. Heanley [Rector of Weyhill, Hampshire], in Saga-Book of the Viking Club, Vol.III, Pt.1, 1901, p.40 - "guisers" or sword dancers at Wainfleet]
036 * There and Back (A Walk with my Grandfather) [by W.H. Wood, in Lincolnshire Life, ?, 1996 - plough-jags at Burton upon Stather]
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]

[General]

038 * Metheringham Area Community Leisure Association (MACLA) [Mention of Metheringham Amateur Dramatics performing a Mummers play 'St George and the Dragon'.]
039 * Six Churches Festival 1st-3rd May 1999 [Photo of Bassingham Plough Jag performance]
040 * Whitton, North Lincolnshire - notes on the history of a village, by Thomas M. Smith [internet only] [extracts relating to Plough Monday from Thomas Harris' diary (January 7, 1858) and Whitton school logbook (January 7, 1902)]

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