Mumming: Play Texts, Etc.
Description
This file contains photocopied and typed papers, produced and collected by Peter Millington, on mumming and mummers' plays, with particular reference to Nottinghamshire. (In the following list, a county designation has only been included for villages outside Nottinghamshire). This file includes a photocopy of Millington's typed description of his folk play indexing system; a copy of a typed list of known Nottinghamshire plays for further investigation and a typed list of locations of Nottinghamshire folk plays, including grid references (81 locations); a photocopy of Peter Millington's appeal for information on guysers and guysers' plays (ca. 1971?); a photocopy of an article on local guysers from the 'Eastwood and Kimberley Advertiser' (4 February 1972); a photocopy of typed information about Blidworth plough plays, a photocopy of ms. text for a Blidworth plough play recorded by R. H. Whitworth (vicar) in 1886, copies of typed text for Blidworth Plough Monday plays from Mr. A. W. Godfrey (1962), Mr. G. Tansley (1962), Mr. H. Nixon (1971), Harry Clark (1971; includes musical notation), and an unknown informant recorded by Norman Couldry(1971), and a photocopy of a typed and ms. rendering of the text and tune to 'Plough Bullocking', collected in Blidworth (1925); a photocopy of typed text for the Plough Boying Play from Caunton, collected from George Elvidge by Lawrence Platt (n.d.); a photocopy of text for Plough Monday plays from Clayworth, from 'The Mummers Play' by R. J. E. Tiddy (Oxford: University Press, 1923), pp. 241-247; a photocopy of typed text for a plough play from Cuckney (n.d.); photocopies of 3 papers with typed texts for Plough Monday plays from East Bridgford, including a version collected from Mr. J. D. Crossland and Mr. R. D. Morris by Miss E. M. Paling (1953); a copy of typed text to a Laxton Plough Monday Play, from the Buxton Collection at Mansfield Reference Library (n.d.); a photocopy of ms. text for a Plough Monday Play from East Drayton (n.d.), and a copy of typed text for a version from East Drayton in the Buxton Collection at Mansfield Reference Library (n.d.); a photocopy of typed text for a Plough Monday Play from Edingley (n.d.); typed and photocopied text for Mansfield versions of the Plough Monday Play, photocopy of a typed paper on Mansfield Plough Bullock Night (i.e. Plough Monday); a photocopy of typed text for a Selston Plough Monday Play in the Buxton Collection at Mansfield Reference Library (n.d.), and a typed copy of text for the Selston Bull Guysers' Play from Barbara Faulconbridge, with a typed copy of text from her accompanying letter (20 January 1972); a photocopy of typed text for the Plough Jags Play from West Halton (Lincolnshire), (n.d.); a copy of typed text for a Yorkshire Plough Monday Play, from Harold Armitage's Sorrelsykes (London: Wheeler, 1913); copies of typed texts for Guysers' Plays collected in Brinsley (24 December 1971 and 16 January 1972), and a typed copy of D. H. Lawrence's description of guysers from The Rainbow; typed text of a guysers play from Mr. H. Hyde of Heanor, with a typed copy of text from his accompanying letter (15 January 1972); typed text for the Ironville Guysers Play (1953); a typed copy of a verse from a Guysers Play thought to be from the Kimberley area, with a typed copy of text from the accompanying letter (15 January 1972); a typed copy of a letter on the Langley Guysers' Play, from R. L. Hodgkinson (17 January 1972); a typed transcript of an audiotape recording of the monologue performed by Wilfred Beale in the New Houghton Guysers Play (1971), and typed copies of text for the New Houghton Play collected from an unidentified informant (1971; 2 versions), and from Sam Richards (1971); a photocopy of typed text for the South Scarle Play, collected from Mr. J. G. Holmes (ca. 1951-1952); a photocopy of typed text for the Underwood Guysers' Play collected from Morris Fox by Keith Simpson (12 January 1971), a photocopy of typed text for a Guysers Play from Bagthorpe or Underwood, collected by Norman Couldry (30 January 1971), typed and photocopied text for the Underwood Guysers' Play from Mr. A. Dakin (22 December 1971), Mr. K. Smith (15 January 1971) and R. L. Hodgkinson(16 January 1972), and a typed copy of a letter from Mrs. F. Winfield on the Underwood Play (16 January 1972); a copy of typed text for a Clackmannan Guysers' Play (Scotland) from J. Smith (19 January 1972); a photocopy of the text for the St. Keverne's Guise-Dance Play (Cornwall), from an unidentified issue of Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries(?); a photocopy of text for a Redruth Christmas Play (Cornwall), from an unidentified issue of Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries; a photocopy of typed text for an unlocated Cornish Christmas Play recorded in Uncle Jan Treenoodle's Examples of Cornish Dialect(1936); a photocopy of the text for a St. George Christmas Play, from Customs of Ancient Days (publication details unknown), pp. 389-392; a photocopy of Alex Helm's paper on the Cheshire Soul-Caking Play from an unidentified publication, pp. 45-50; a photocopy of Two Variations of the Folk Play and a Further Account of the Old Hoss, and the text of a Christmas Play from Keynsham (Somerset), from the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, volume 2 ( 1947), pp. 81-82, and 82-91 respectively; a photocopy of typed text for a Pasche Egg Play performed in Cumbria (collected ca. 1965); a photocopy of Ivor Gatty's paper, The Old Tup and its Ritual, from an unidentified publication, pp. 23-30; and a photocopy of typed text for The Owd Tup (n.d.). File arranged by play type (i.e. Plough Plays, Guysers' Plays, etc.) and within this, alphabetically by village or town name, with Millington's general papers filed first.
Metadata
| Identifier | cd3v9gx1 |
| IRN | 410797 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/14/4/4 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/cd3v9gx1 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Drama |
| Creator(s) | Millington, Peter T |
| Date | [1960s-1970s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of photocopied and typed papers. |