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.
Alfred Tuffley, who started mumming very early in life, acted in this play as late as 1905 or l906.
All the performers blacked their faces. Prince George and the Turkey Champion had swords. Prince George wore a soldier's cap. The other performers wore ribbons in front.
They sang a song at the end of the performance joining hands in a ring.
They called Beelzebub, on whose back the doctor came in, 'the doctor's horse' : but Beelzebub was also known to them as the 'old woman' and was dressed in a frock.