Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
"Here is the mummers' play given to me by George brown of Norham, son of the George Brown of Belford mentioned in the text. The play is apparently from Allendale. George jnr. (of Norham) remembers it being performed by this family at home in Gateshead, where his father worked during WW2, every Christmas as family entertainment.
The family has a long and continuing tradition of working in forestry and landscape gardening in various parts of Northumberland, and George snr. always claimed they were descended from 'Capability' Brown.
George jnr can't remember any more details about the play. George snr. died recently.
Peter Millington's Notes:The typescript of this play was found among the papers of George Brown snr of Belford, Northumberland, and passed to me by M.Williams. It is not known who it was that typed up the play, although it was probably someone in the family. It was this text that was used by the family when they lived in Gateshead.