Folk Play Links - Somerset, 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 * Bathampton Morris Men [photo; programme]
002 * Bishopswood [sic] Mummers [photos; programme; script]
003 * North Curry Mummers (/ Taunton Deane Morris Men) [photos; programme; CD for sale]
004 * The Halfway House [Photo of Langport Mummers]
005 * Weston Mummers [photos; programme]
006 * Widcombe Mummers / Widcombe Association [photos; programme]

Publications

007 * A History of the County of Somerset, Vol.7 [1999, pp.018-042 - 'Bruton' - citation of Dorset Record Office [Ref. D/FSI, box 218, accounts. 1781-1787]]
008 * A History of the County of Somerset, Vol.7 [1999, pp.084-093 - 'Charlton Horethorne']
009 * A History of the County of Somerset, Vol.7 [1999, pp.138-156 - 'Milborne Port' - citation of Somerset County Herald, 5th & 12th Jun. 1926]
010 * A History of the County of Somerset, Vol.7 [1999, pp.184-192 - 'Penselwood' - citation as Bruton]
011 * A History of the County of Somerset, Vol.7 [1999, pp.201-208 - 'Stoke Trister' - citation as Bruton]
012 * A History of the County of Somerset. Vol.6 [edited by R. W. Dunning, 1992, p.136 - 'Stogursey', by R. W. Dunning and M. C. Siraut - citation of Somerset Record Office [Ref. D/PC/stogs 23/19]]
013 * A Narrative of the Extraordinary Case of Geo. Lukins, of Yatton, Somersetshire [1788, p.6 - Subscription required for Gale: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]
014 * Calendar of Customs, Superstitions, Weather-Lore, Popular Sayings, and Important Events Connected with the County of Somerset [[comp.] by W.G. Willis Watson, 1920, pp.456-457 - extract from Wifela's Combe : A History of the Parish of Wiveliscombe, by F. Hancock, 1911, p.60]
015 * Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 [vol.II, 1877, pp.82, 943, 1155 - 'бн 1862 : Add. Ms. 24542' - Keynsham text]
016 * Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 [vol.II, 1877, pp.82, 943 - 'бн 1862 : Add. Ms. 24546' - Keynsham text]
017 * Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at an English Country House [by Sir Edward Strachey [3rd Baronet], in Atlantic Monthly, Vol.74 No.446, Dec. 1894, pp.733-734 - Mummers at Sutton Court, Chew Magna]
018 * Church-Wardens' Accounts of Croscombe, Pilton, Yatton, Tintinhull, Morebath, and St Michael's Bath [ed. by Right Rev Bishop [Edmund] Hobhouse, 1890, pp.xiv, 184 - Christmasse play at Tintinhull; xxii-xxiii - author's memory of mumming at [Hadspen House, Hadspen ?]]
019 * English Folk-Song : Some Conclusions [by Cecil J. Sharp, 1907, p.17 - mummers (non-play?) seen at West Chinnock & Haselbury Plucknett]
020 * History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, [2nd edition] [by Rev J.A. Giles, 1848, p.60; pp.176-178 - [Frome ?] fragments]
021 * Priddy Mummers [citation of David Searle, in Bristol Folk News, No.14, Spring 1974, pp.21-23]
022 * Survey of English Dialects (SED) Incidental Material [Ref. 31So6] [Mummers at Stogursey]
023 * The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 [by James Woodforde. London, Oxford University Press, 1949 - mummers (non-play?) at Ansford - Subscription required for Questia]
024 * The Nursery Rhymes of England, [ed. by James Orchard Halliwell, 1842, p.136 - CCXLVII]

[General]

025 * Monkton Players [List of productions with mention of Mummers Play]
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