Lincolnshire - unlocalized festivals

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

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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