Lincolnshire - unlocalized festivals

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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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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-31.

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.[1]

IRHB comments

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

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