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.
Two teams - one men, one youths. W. Gascoyne was in youths team - 18-20 years of age. When they came to the Old Hall, N. Muskham, they came into the scullery and knocked at the kitchen door, opened it and said: "Plough boys are here; may we act ?"
Costumes: For Lady..Harry Clipsham padded out with straw, bustle behind.
Faces blacked except Doctor.
Doctor with false moustache.
Eezum Squeezum..Old black hat; sack over him, and sacking tied out over arms, stuffed.
Tom Fool. "patched-up" clothing.
Rehearsed "in anybody's barn". Last done before 1914.
Indexer's NotesNote 1 - This verse is taken from the poem "The Diverting History of John Gilpin" by William Cowper (1782)