Lincolnshire - unlocalized festivals

Festivals
Locality	Unlocalized
Vicinity	?
Coordinates	?
Adm. div.	Lincolnshire
Began	1856 or earlier
Ended	Later than 1856
Events	Members of Brighouse procession in celebration of marriage of the future Edward VII and Princess Alexandra of Denmark dressed as Robin Hood and his men

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English counties with Robin Hood-related festivals. Click marker for link. Historic county boundary coordinates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.

Lincolnshire - unlocalized festivals¤|

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-14.

Record

[1856 or earlier:]
Plough-boys.—Countrymen, who go about dressed in ribbon, &c., as Morris (Moorish) dancers on Plough Monday, perform the sword-dance, &c. One is dressed as "Maid Marion," and is called the witch, another in rags, and is called the fool, &c. &c.

IRHB comments

This entry occurs in a list of provincialisms. The use of the present tense suggests a then extant tradition.

Lists and gazetteers

• Outside scope of Lancashire, Ian, compil. Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: a Chronological Topography to 1558 (Cambridge, 1984).
• Outside scope of Wiles, David. The Early Plays of Robin Hood (Cambridge, 1981), Appendix I.

Sources

• Gutch, Mrs, compil.; Peacock, Mabel, compil. County Folk-Lore vol. 5. Printed Extracts No. VII. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire (Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, vol. LXIII) (London, 1908), p. 175, cites Pishey Thompson, p 718 (see below.)
• Thompson, Pishey. The History and Antiquities of Boston (Boston, England; London; Boston, Massachusetts, 1856), p. 718.

Notes

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