Quack Doctor

• 1. Childrey, Berks. [Fragment - 1926]
• Fragment from Ormskirk (Lancashire) : Pace-egging Song - 1930

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat

• Cure at Bristol Fair 1770
• Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s
• Christmas, Yule-Boys play from Galloway - 1824
• Helpston Moris Dance Drama - Clare's text - 1825
• Cornish Christmas Play - 1833
• Northamptonshire Tander Mumming Fragments - 1851
• Lutterworth St. George Play - 1863
• Chiswick Mummers' play, 1860
• South Notts Plough Bullock Day Play - 1873
• King George Play from Kirkby Woodhouse, Notts. - 1887
• New Holland Mummers [1880]
• Soldiers acting at Christmas, Change Islands, Newfoundland - 1900

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Northern English

• Cheshire Play - Before 1788
• W.Walker's Peace Egg Chapbook - 1840-1877 Chapbook
• J.Pearce's Mummers' Act or Morris Dancers 'Chapbook - 1837-1849 Chapbook
• Morrissing in North Notts. - 1845-1850
• A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers - 1849
• Brimington Mummers' Play [Derbyshire, 1862]
• Christmas Guisers' Play from Newport, Shropshire [1883]
• Mummers' Play from Hamstall Ridware (Staffs.) 1884
• Hawkshead Easter Pace-Egg Play - 1898
• Plough Boy's Play from Selby - 1892
• Dendron Pace Egg Mummers Play, 1904
• The Paceakers’ Play, Heptonstall - 1909
• Souling Play from Stapleford, Cheshire, 1908 to 1914
• 5. "Guisers" play on Xmas Eve, Repton, Derbyshire, Jan., 1909.
• Kirk Hallam Christmas Guisers Play - 1907
• Souling Play from Huxley, Cheshire, 1913
• Selston Mummers' Play - 1913
• Words of the Ripon Sword-Dance - 1920
• Plough Boy's Play - Edingley Version [Notts., 1920s]
• Pace-Egging from Ambleside (Westmorland) 1930
• Mummers’ Play from Coxwold (Yorkshire) 1930
• Burntwood Guisers’ Play [Staffordshire, pre-1939]
• 4. Church Broughton, Derbyshire. [1930]
• Bull Guysering Play from Selston, Notts. - 1932
• Guysers Play from Underwood, Notts., 1935 & 1936
• Rudheath (Cheshire) Souling Play [1949]
• The Somercotes Guisers, 1942-1945
• Blidworth Plough Monday Play, c.1939

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Northern English > Alexander Chapbook

• J.White's Alexander Chapbook - 1746-1769 Chapbook
• T.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook [1810-1826] Chapbook
• "Saint George and Slasher" - Sandbach, 1817
• Callander & Dixon's Alexander Chapbook - 1847-1891 Chapbook
• The White Boys [Isle of Man] 1845
• A.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook - 1883-1901 Chapbook
• Penkridge Christmas Play, 1899

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > North British

• Christmas Play from Blennerhasset, Cumberland 1930

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > North British > Sword Dance

• The Sword Dancers, Tyne & Wear, 1815
• Sword Dancers, Durham, 1834
• Gainford, Durham, Sword-Dance Play - 1860
• Bellerby Sword Dance Play, 1879 & 1926
• Ampleforth Play - 1898
• Greatham Sword Dance Play - 1924

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > North British > Galoshins A

• Christmas Gysarts Play from Bowden - 1815
• Hogmany Play from Falkirk - J.W.Reddock, 1825
• Galation from the Abbotsford Collection Text (a) 1812-1832
• Falkirk Play, 1841
• Galatian, a New-Year Play [from Peebles] 1841

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > North British > Galoshins B

• Guisards Play from the Abbotsford Collection Text (b) 1812-1832
• Stirling Play of Galations, 1835
• Crieff Guisers’ Play, 1884
• The New Year Mummers' Tale of Galaschin - Forfarshire 1888
• Culross play, 1893
• Scremerston Guizards, Northumberland [before 1913]
• "Sword Dancers" play, Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham [1913-1915]

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > North British > Galoshins C

• The Mummers [Allendale, 1860-1870]
• Cumnock Play, c.1883
• Laurieston Hallowe'en Play (a), 1897
• Laurieston Play (b), 1897
• Hallowe’en Play from Balmaghie, 1897
• Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899
• A Redruth Christmas Play : 1910-1925
• The Guisers' Play, from High Spen, Co.Durham [1925]
• 6. "The Sword-dancers" Cumberland. [1930]
• Mummers’ Play from Skelton (Yorkshire) 1930

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Cotswold

• The Islip Mummers' Play of 1780
• Oxfordshire Christmas Mummers play - 1794
• Mummers’ Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816
• A Christmas Play from Keynsham [Hunter] 1822
• Mumming [Thenford, Northants. 1854]
• Christmas Mummers' Play from Weston-sub-Edge, Glos. - 1864
• The Mummers’ Performance, Lower Heyford - 1885
• Mid-Berkshire Mummers 1888
• Mumming Play from Longborough, Glos. - 1905-1906
• Broadwell Christmas Play, 1900 or 1901
• Christmas Play from Cinderford, Glos. - 1913-1916
• Christmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914
• Play from Great Wolford, Warks. - 1913-1916
• Play from Ilmington, Warks. - 1913-1916
• Play from Pillerton, Warks. - 1913-1916
• Play from Leafield, Oxfordshire - 1913-1916
• The Mummers' Act from Cuddesdon, Oxon - 1914
• Mumies Play from Badby, Northants. - 1913-1916
• Waterstock, Oxfordshire play - 1914
• Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
• Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 2 - 1914
• The Turkish Knight [Fragments. Caney Creek, Kentucky, 1925]
• Christmas Mummers of Stoneleigh [1925]
• Sulgrave Mummers' Play [Northamptonshire, 1921]
• The Christmas Play, Gander, Kentucky, 1930

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Cotswold > Robin Hood

• Inglesham Christmas Play - 1840 to 1850
• Christmas Mummers Play from Kempsford, Glos. - 1868
• Bold Robin Hood : Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon. - 1913-1916
• South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Irish

• Belfast Christmas Rhyme - Smyth & Lyons (1803-1818) Chapbook
• Ballybrennan, Wexford play – about 1823
• Tragedy of St.George, St.John's, Newfoundland, c.1840
• Pace, Peace, or Paste Egging [Hulme, 1842]
• Tenby Guisers’ Play - 1857
• Christmas Rhymers in the North of Ireland : Belfast 1872
• Christmas play from Dromore - 1886
• Christmas Rhymers from Mullaghcarton - 1885
• Boys' play from Braganstown - 1890
• 2. Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks. [Mummers, 1900]
• Boys’ play from Dundalk - 1915
• Belfast : "The Christmas Rime" from R.J.E.Tiddy (1923) - 1913-1916 Chapbook
• Belcoo Christmas Play, c.1940

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Southern English

• Exeter Fragment, 1737 or 1770
• Romsey Mummers' Play - 1796-1837
• Cornish Christmas Play - 1827
• Tredrea Christmas Play - 1822
• Mummers: Penny Magazine - 1837
• Mummers' Play from Upper & Lower Howsell, Worcs. - 1856-1857
• Christmas Play from Hampshire - 1859
• The Christmas Mummers [Yonge's novel] 1858
• Christmas Play of St.George and the Dragon [West of England, 1852]
• Guise-Dance Play, Saint Keverne [Cornwall, 1855]
• 2 Chiddingfold (Surrey) tip-teering play [1860]
• Hampshire Mummers [Fragments, 1861]
• Christmas Play from Llanmadoc and Cheriton - 1879
• The Silverton Mummers' Rhymes - 1873
• Christmas Boys or Mummers, Potterne, 1876-1890
• Ovingdean, Sussex play - 1870
• Atkinson's "St. George and the Turkish Knight", 1885 Chapbook
• The Mummers [Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, 1880s]
• Text Fragments of Compton Mummers, Berks. - 1888
• Symondsbury Mummers’ Play 1880
• South West Dorset Mummers’ Play 1880
• Sompting Tipteerers’s Play, 1882
• Christmas Champions play from Westerham, Kent [c.1896-97]
• The Salvage Play, Newfoundland, c.1900
• Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 1 - 1908
• Tipteerers' Duologue from Cocking, Sussex - 1903-1906
• Play from Malvern, Worcs. - 1913-1916
• Dunvant Christmas Sport, Collected 1916
• Christmas Play from North Somerset - 1913-1916
• Christmas Play from Bursledon, Hants. - 1913-1916
• Johnny Jacks Play from Overton, Hants. - 1913
• Camborne, Cornwall : The Christmas Play - 1913-1916
• Christmas Play from Bovey Tracey - 1913-1916
• Mummers’ Play from Alton Barnes (Wiltshire) 1930
• 3. Witley [sic], Reading, Berks. [1930]

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Compiled Hybrid

• Christmas: his Pageant Play, or Mysterie of "St.George" - 1842 Chapbook
• The Peace Egg : A Christmas Mumming Play - 1884
• Mummies, Pot Works, Nevis, 1930s
• Mummies, St.Kitts, New Year's Day 1966

Quack Doctor > Hero/Combat > Composed

• The Christmas Play - Bampton Mummers 1847
• Walker’s New Mummer, or, The Wassail Cup - 1855 Chapbook
• The Four Champions of Great Britain - 1879-1884 Chapbook

Quack Doctor > Plough

• Morris Dancers’ play Fragment from Mumby - 1890
• Plough Monday fragment from Winterton - 1901

Quack Doctor > Plough > Multiple Wooing

• The "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779
• Morrice Dancers at Revesby - 1779
• A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824
• Broughton Play [Lincs.] - Text B - 1824
• Broughton Xmas Play [Lincs.] - Text C - 1824
• Bassingham Men's play 1823 Xmas
• Bassingham Childrens play Xmas 1823

Quack Doctor > Plough > Recruiting Sergeant

• Recruiting Sergeant [1823-1888]
• Swinderby Decr. 31st 1842 Play
• Plough-Jags' Ditties from North Lincolnshire - 1876
• South Scarle Plough Monday Play, 1882
• Plough Jacks’ Play from Willoughton - 1889
• Lincolnshire Plough Jags play - 1890
• Blidworth Plough Bullocking Play, 1896
• Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play - 1890
• Edith Weston Morris-Dancers Play, c.1898
• Play from Brattleby, Lincolnshire, 1894
• Kirton-in-Lindsey Plough-Jags Play - 1890
• Hibaldstow Ploughboys’ Play -1901
• Plough-Monday Play from Clipsham, Rutland, 1904
• Calverton Plough Monday Play Fragment, 1951
• North Muskham, Notts. - Plough Monday Play - 1914
• A Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916
• Another Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916
• Jerusalem, Lincs., Plough Play - 1914
• Play from Bulby, Lincs. - 1913-1916
• The "Plough Jacks’" Play from Kirmington, Lincs. - 1923
• A Plough Monday Play [Kentucky, c.1860]
• The Plough Boys (from Tollerton, Nottinghamshire) 1950
• Plough Jagg’s Play : Bassingham - 1952
• Farnsfield Plough Play [Nottinghamshire, 1966]

Non-Quack Doctor

• Scott's Papa Stour Sword Dance - 1788

Non-Quack Doctor > Old Horse

• The Old Horse [1819-1844]
• The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888
• The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902]
• The Old Horse, North Derbyshire [1907]

Non-Quack Doctor > Derby Tup

• The Derby Ram, 1867
• The Old Tup, Braithwell, 1895
• The Old Tup, Castleton, 1901
• The Little Tup, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., 1906
• The Old Tup, Staveley, Mr.Gascoyne's Version, 1946
• Old Tup, Staveley, Mrs.Wragg's Version, 1946
• T'Owd Tup, Eckington, 1969
• T'Owd Tup - Eckington, 1969

Literary Parallel

• "Spectrvm" from "Wily Begvuilde" 1606
• Vindication of Christmas - Speech - 1653
• 126 : Robin Hood and the Tanner [Ballad] 1663
• Christmas rhyme from J.Ray (1670)
• Diphilo and Granida - 1673
• Congreve's Love for Love, Act 3, Scene 6 - 1695
• Infallible Mountebank - 1707
• Rosamond, an Opera - 1707
• S.Nicholls' Infallible Doctor Broadside - 1700-1740
• King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France - 1730
• The Honest Yorkshireman [Extract] 1736
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin
• Second thoughts are best [dialogue ballad] 1780-1812
• Recruiting Speech of 1796
• "Young Roger of the Mill" Broadside - 1820-1824
• A New Dialogue Between a Husbandman and a Servant Man - Before 1838
• “When good King Arthur ruled this land” 1871