Scripts by county

Canada

Newfoundland

Tragedy of St.George, St.John's, Newfoundland, c.1840
Soldiers acting at Christmas, Change Islands, Newfoundland - c.1900
The Salvage Play, Newfoundland, c.1900
Caribbean

Nevis

Mummies, Pot Works, Nevis, 1930s

St. Kitts

Mummies, St.Kitts, New Year's Day 1966
England

[General]

County unknown

"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
S.Nicholls' Infallible Doctor Broadside - 1700-1740
Infallible Mountebank - 1707
Rosamond, an Opera - 1707
King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France - 1730
The Honest Yorkshireman [Extract] 1736
Second thoughts are best [dialogue ballad] 1780-1812
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
The Old Horse [1819-1844]
Mummers: Penny Magazine - 1837
A New Dialogue Between a Husbandman and a Servant Man - Before 1838
Christmas Play of St.George and the Dragon [West of England, 1852]
When good King Arthur ruled this land - 1871
The Peace Egg : A Christmas Mumming Play - 1884

Berkshire

Mid-Berkshire Mummers 1888
Text Fragments of Compton Mummers, Berks. - 1888
2. Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks. [Mummers, 1900]
1. Childrey, Berks. [Fragment - 1926]
3. Witley [sic], Reading, Berks. [1930]

Cheshire

Cheshire Play - Before 1788
"St. George and Slasher" - Sandbach, 1817
Souling Play from Stapleford, Cheshire, 1908 to 1914
Souling Play from Huxley, Cheshire, 1913
Rudheath (Cheshire) Souling Play [1949]

Cornwall

Truro [Formerly Mylor]: "A Play for Christmas", 1780s
Tredrea Christmas Play - 1822
Cornish Christmas Play - 1827
Cornish Christmas Play - 1833
Guise-Dance Play, Saint Keverne [Cornwall, 1855]
A Redruth Christmas Play : 1910-1925
Camborne, Cornwall : The Christmas Play - 1913-1916

Cumberland

T.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook [1810-1826]
Callander & Dixon's Alexander Chapbook - 1847-1891
A.Wilson's Alexander Chapbook - 1883-1901
6. "The Sword-dancers" Cumberland. [1930]
Christmas Play from Blennerhasset, Cumberland 1930

Derbyshire

A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers - 1849
Brimington Mummers' Play [Derbyshire, 1862]
The Derby Ram, 1867
The Old Tup, Castleton, 1901
Kirk Hallam Christmas Guisers Play - 1907
The Old Horse, North Derbyshire [1907]
5. "Guisers" play on Xmas Eve, Repton, Derbyshire, Jan., 1909.
4. Church Broughton, Derbyshire. [1930]
The Somercotes Guisers, 1942-1945
Old Tup, Staveley, Mrs.Wragg's Version, 1946
The Old Tup, Staveley, Mr.Gascoyne's Version, 1946
T'Owd Tup - Eckington, 1969
T'Owd Tup, Eckington, 1969

Devon

Exeter Fragment, 1737 or 1770
The Silverton Mummers' Rhymes - 1873
Christmas Play from Bovey Tracey - 1913-1916

Dorset

South West Dorset Mummers' Play 1880
Symondsbury Mummers' Play 1880
The Mummers [Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, 1880s]

Durham

Sword Dancers, Durham, 1834
Gainford, Durham, Sword-Dance Play - 1860
"Sword Dancers" play, Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham [1913-1915]
Greatham Sword Dance Play - 1924
The Guisers' Play, from High Spen, Co.Durham [1925]

Gloucestershire

South Cerney (Gloucestershire) Mummers Play
Christmas Mummers' Play from Weston-sub-Edge, Glos. - 1864
Christmas Mummers Play from Kempsford, Glos. - 1868
Mumming Play from Longborough, Glos. - 1905-1906
Christmas Play from Cinderford, Glos. - 1913-1916
Christmas Play from Icomb, Glos. - 1913-1916
Christmas Mummers Play from Sapperton, Glos. - 1914

Hampshire

Romsey Mummers' Play - 1796-1837
Christmas: his Pageant Play, or Mysterie of "St.George" - 1842
The Christmas Mummers [Yonge's novel] 1858
Christmas Play from Hampshire - 1859
Hampshire Mummers [Fragments, 1861]
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 1 - 1908
Christmas Play from Bursledon, Hants. - 1913-1916
Johnny Jacks Play from Overton, Hants. - 1913
Christmas Play from Burghclere, Hants. : Version 2 - 1914

Kent

Christmas Champions play from Westerham, Kent [c.1896-97]

Lancashire

"Young Roger of the Mill" Broadside 1820-1824
Pace, Peace, or Paste Egging [Hulme, 1842]
Atkinson's "St. George and the Turkish Knight", 1885
Hawkshead Easter Pace-Egg Play - 1898
Dendron Pace Egg Mummers Play, 1904
Fragment from Ormskirk (Lancashire) : Pace-egging Song - 1930

Leicestershire

Lutterworth St. George Play - 1863

Lincolnshire

Morrice Dancers at Revesby - 1779
The "Plouboys oR modes dancers" at Revesby 1779
Bassingham Childrens play Xmas 1823
Bassingham Men's play 1823 Xmas
Recruiting Sergeant [1823-1888]
A Christmas Play [Broughton, Lincs.] - Text A - 1824
Broughton Play [Lincs.] - Text B - 1824
Broughton Xmas Play [Lincs.] - Text C - 1824
Swinderby Decr. 31st 1842 Play
Plough-Jags' Ditties from North Lincolnshire - 1876
New Holland Mummers [1880]
Plough Jacks Play from Willoughton - 1889
Kirton-in-Lindsey Plough-Jags Play - 1890
Lincolnshire Plough Jags play - 1890
Morris Dancers' play Fragment from Mumby - 1890
Brattleby, Lincolnshire Mummers' Play [1894]
Hibaldstow Ploughboys' Play -1901
Plough Monday fragment from Winterton - 1901
Play from Bulby, Lincs. - 1913-1916
Jerusalem, Lincs., Plough Play - 1914
The "Plough Jacks'" Play from Kirmington, Lincs. - 1923
Plough Jagg's Play : Bassingham - 1952

Middlesex

Chiswick Mummers' play, 1860

Northamptonshire

Helpston Moris Dance Drama - Clare's text - 1825
Northamptonshire Tander Mumming Fragments - 1851
Mumming [Thenford, Northants. 1854]
Mumies Play from Badby, Northants. - 1913-1916
Sulgrave Mummers' Play [Northamptonshire, 1921]

Northumberland

Scremerston, Northumberland
J.White's Alexander Chapbook - 1746-1769
The Mummers [Allendale, 1860-1870]

Nottinghamshire

Farnsfield Plough Play [Nottinghamshire, no date]
Recruiting Speech of 1796
"Morrissing" in North Notts. - 1845-1850
South Notts Plough Bullock Day Play - 1873
South Scarle Plough Monday Play, 1882
King George Play from Kirkby Woodhouse, Notts. - 1887
Cropwell, Notts. Ploughboys' Play - 1890
Blidworth Plough Bullocking Play, 1896
The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902]
The Little Tup, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., 1906
A Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916
Another Version of a Plough Monday Play from Clayworth, Notts. - 1913-1916
Selston Mummers' Play - 1913
North Muskham, Notts. - Plough Monday Play - 1914
Plough boy's Play - Edingley Version [Notts., 1920s]
Bull Guysering Play from Selston, Notts. - 1932
Guysers Play from Underwood, Notts., 1935 & 1936
Blidworth Plough Monday Play, c.1939
The Plough Boys (from Tollerton, Nottinghamshire) 1950
Calverton Plough Monday Play Fragment, 1951

Oxfordshire

The Islip Mummers' Play of 1780
Oxfordshire Christmas Mummers play - 1794
Mummers' Play from Kirtlingon[?] - 1815-1816
The Christmas Play - Bampton Mummers 1847
The Mummers' Performance, Lower Heyford - 1885
Bold Robin Hood : Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon. - 1913-1916
Play from Leafield, Oxfordshire - 1913-1916
The Mummers' Act from Cuddesdon, Oxon - 1914
Waterstock, Oxfordshire play - 1914

Rutland

Edith Weston Morris-Dancers Play, c.1898
Plough-Monday Play from Clipsham, Rutland, 1904

Shropshire

Christmas Guisers' Play from Newport, Shropshire [1883]

Somerset

Cure at Bristol Fair 1770
A Christmas Play from Keynsham [Hunter] 1822
Christmas Play from North Somerset - 1913-1916

Staffordshire

Mummers' Play from Hamstall Ridware (Staffs.) 1884
Penkridge Christmas Play, 1899
Burntwood Guisers' Play [Staffordshire, pre-1939]

Surrey

2 Chiddingfold (Surrey) tip-teering play [1860]

Sussex

Ovingdean, Sussex play - 1870
Sompting Tipteerers's Play, 1882
Tipteerers' Duologue from Cocking, Sussex - 1903-1906

Tyne and Wear

The Sword Dancers, Tyne & Wear, 1815

Warwickshire

Rugby Christmas Mumming Play, 1899
Broadwell Christmas Play, 1900 or 1901
Play from Great Wolford, Warks. - 1913-1916
Play from Ilmington, Warks. - 1913-1916
Play from Pillerton, Warks. - 1913-1916
Christmas Mummers of Stoneleigh [1925]

Westmorland

Pace-Egging from Ambleside (Westmorland) 1930

Wiltshire

Inglesham Christmas Play - 1840 to 1850
Christmas Boys or Mummers, Potterne, 1876-1890
Mummers' Play from Alton Barnes (Wiltshire) 1930

Worcestershire

Mummers' Play from Upper & Lower Howsell, Worcs. - 1856-1857
Play from Malvern, Worcs. - 1913-1916

Yorkshire

J.Pearce's Mummers' Act or Morris Dancers 'Chapbook - 1837-1849
W.Walker's Peace Egg Chapbook - 1840-1877
Walker's New Mummer, or, The Wassail Cup - 1855
Bellerby Sword Dance Play, 1879 & 1926
The Four Champions of Great Britain - 1879-1884
The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888
Plough Boy's Play from Selby - 1892
The Old Tup, Braithwell, 1895
Ampleforth Play - 1898
The Paceakers' Play, Heptonstall - 1909
Words of the Ripon Sword-Dance - 1920
Mummers' Play from Coxwold (Yorkshire) 1930
Mummers' Play from Skelton (Yorkshire) 1930
Ireland

Antrim

Belfast Christmas Rhyme - Smyth & Lyons (1803-1818)
Christmas Rhymers in the North of Ireland : Belfast 1872
Christmas Rhymers from Mullaghcarton - 1885
Belfast : "The Christmas Rime" from R.J.E.Tiddy (1923) - 1913-1916

Donegal

Christmas play from Dromore - 1886

Louth

Boys' play from Braganstown - 1890
Boys' play from Dundalk - 1915

Wexford

Ballybrennan, Wexford play - about 1823
Isle of Man
The White Boys [Isle of Man] 1845
Northern Ireland

Fermanagh

Belcoo Mummers' Play, c.1940
Scotland

Ayrshire

Cumnock Play, c.1883

Borders

Christmas Gysarts Play from Bowden - 1815

Fife

Culross play, 1893

Forfarshire

The New Year Mummers' Tale of Galaschin - Forfarshire 1888

Galloway

Christmas, Yule-Boys play from Galloway - 1824

Kirkudbright

Hallowe'en Play from Balmaghie, 1897
Laurieston Hallowe'en Play (a), 1897
Laurieston Play (b), 1897

Peeblesshire

Galatian, a New-Year Play [from Peebles] 1841

Perthshire

Crieff Guisers' Play, 1884

Roxburghshire

"Galation" from the Abbotsford Collection Text (a) 1812-1832
Guisards Play from the Abbotsford Collection Text (b) 1812-1832

Shetland

Scott's Papa Stour Sword Dance - 1788

Stirlingshire

Hogmany Play from Falkirk - J.W.Reddock, 1825
Stirling Play of Galations, 1835
Falkirk Play, 1841
USA

Kentucky

The Turkish Knight [Fragments. Caney Creek, Kentucky, 1925]
A Plough Monday Play [Kentucky, 1930]
The Christmas Play, Gander, Kentucky, 1930
Wales

Glamorganshire

Christmas Play from Llanmadoc and Cheriton - 1879

Pembrokeshire

Tenby Guisers' Play - 1857

West Glamorgan

Dunvant Christmas Sport, Collected 1916