Location | Grid Ref. | Extant | Time of Appearance | Text | Play Class | Sources | Note |
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-[Unlocated] | 1890 | Text | Hero-Combat + Dame Jane | Wood (1890) | |||
-[Unlocated] | early 19th cty | Text | Wooing | Mummer Plays, Co. Lincoln (1823-1842) | |||
Addlethorpe | (TF5468) | 1870 | Christmas to Plough Mon. | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Dudding (1925), Brogden (1866) | |
Alkborough | (SE8821) | 1917 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll., Wright & Lones (1938), Barley (1936) | |
Ancaster | (SK9843) | c. 1921 | Christmas & New Year | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | [1.] |
Anwick | (TF1150) | c. 1908 | Plough Monday | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Cawte Coll. | [1.] |
Ashby | (SE8908) | 1872 | No Text | Doubtful | Ordish Coll. | ||
Aswarby | (TF0639) | 1928 | No Text | Doubtful | Barley (1953), Barley Coll. | [2.] | |
Aubourn | (SK9262) | Plough Week | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | [1.] | |
Bardney | (TF1269) | No Text | Doubtful | Barley Coll. | [1.] | ||
Barnetby le Wold | (TA0509) | c. 1920 | Christmas & Plough Monday | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rambler (1934b), Russell Coll., Carpenter Coll. | [3.] |
Barrow upon Humber | (TA0721) | 1951 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll., BBC (1953a), Barley Coll., Rudkin Coll. | [4.] |
Barrowby | (SK8736) | 1929 | New Year | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll., Cawte Coll. | [5.] |
Barton upon Humber | (TA0222) | Christmas | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley Coll. | ||
Bassingham | (SK9059) | late 1940's | Christmas and Plough week | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Mummer Plays, Co. Lincoln (1823-1842), Rudkin (1952), Carpenter Coll., Johnson (1966) | [6.] |
Baston | (TF1114) | c. 1890 | Plough Monday | No Text | Doubtful | Barley Coll. | [1.] |
Baumber | (TF2274) | c. 1870 | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat? | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] | |
( | Rudkin Coll. | [7.] | |||||
Bigby | (TA0507) | c. 1933 | Christmas | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Brears (1932-34), Rambler (1934a) | [1.] |
Blyton | (SK8594) | c. 1896 | No Text | Doubtful | Rudkin Coll. | [1.] | |
( | Barley (1953) | [8.] | |||||
Bottesford | (SE8907) | 1882 | Christmas to Plough Mon. | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat Visiting | Fowler (1908), Ordish Coll. | |
Branston | (TF0267) | 1913 | Christmas to Plough Mon. | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley & Barley (1957), Barley Coll. | [9.] |
Brant Broughton | (SK9154) | c. 1936 | Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Cawte Coll., Carpenter Coll., Rudkin Coll. | [1.] |
Brattleby | (SK9480) | 1905 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | |
Brigg | (TA0007) | 19th cty | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Macnamara (1931) | |
Broughton | (SE9508) | 1524 | New Year's Eve | No Text | Doubtful | Middleton Accounts | |
Broughton | (SE9508) | 1824 | Christmas | Text | Wooing | Mummer Plays, Co. Lincoln (1823-1842) | |
Broughton (2nd entry) | (SE9508) | late 19 cent. | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | [1.] | |
Bucknall | (TF1668) | c. 1874 | Christmas to New Year | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Ordish Coll., Carpenter Coll. | [10.] |
Bulby | (TF0526) | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Tiddy (1923) | |||
Burgh le Marsh | (TF5065) | 1886 | Christmas | No Text | Doubtful | Brears (n.d.) | |
Burringham | (SE8309) | 1934 | Plough Mon. | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll., Wright & Lones (1938), Rambler (1934a), Rambler (1934b) | |
Burton | (SK9574) | 1785 | Jan. and Dec. | No Text | Doubtful | Monson Accounts | |
Burton upon Stather | (SE8717) | 1920 | Plough Mon. | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley (1953), Fowler (1920), Fanoughty MS | [11.] |
Caistor | (TA1101) | c. 1930 | Frag. | Doubtful Wooing | Gibbons (1925), Carpenter Coll. | [12.] | |
Carlton le Moorland | (SK9058) | 1952 | Plough Mon. | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley (1952), Rudkin (1939a), Lincolnshire Chronicle & Leader (1934), Carpenter Coll. | [13.] |
Claypole | (SK8549) | 1930s | Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Spratley (1977), Tinsley (1975) | [1.] |
Colsterworth | (SK9324) | 1930s | Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley Coll., Barley (1953), Barley (1955), Cawte Coll. | [14.] |
Coningsby | (TF2258) | 1896 | Christmas to Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] |
Crosby | (SE8811) | Plough Mon. | No Text | Doubtful | Rudkin (1933) | ||
Digby | (TF0754) | c. 1880 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin (1939a), Rudkin Coll. | [15.] |
( | Rudkin Coll. | [16.] | |||||
Dowsby | (TF1129) | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | [17.] | ||
Dunsby | (TF1026) | No Text | Doubtful Wooing | Rudkin Coll. | [18.] | ||
East Butterwick | (SE8306) | c. 1900 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Ordish Coll., Rudkin Coll. | [19.] | |
Elsham | (TA0312) | c. 1879 | before Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Ordish Coll., Carpenter Coll. | [20.] |
Faldingworth | (TF0684) | c. 1895 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley Coll. | [1.] | |
Fenton | (SK8750) | c. 1939 | Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll., Spratley (1977) | [1.] |
Flixborough | (SE8715) | c. 1894 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Wright & Lones (1938), Rudkin Coll., Barley Coll. | [21.] | |
Fosdyke | (TF3133) | 1890's | No Text | Doubtful Visiting | Barley (1953), Barley Coll. | [22.] | |
Foston | (SK8542) | 1930s | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Spratley (1977) | [1.] | |
Frithville | (TF3250) | 1890's | Plough Monday | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley (1953), Barley Coll. | [23.] |
( | Rudkin Coll. | [16.] | |||||
Great Gonerby | (SK8938) | 1775 | No Text | Doubtful | Aswarby Collection | ||
Great Hale | (TF1442) | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll. | [24.] | ||
Gunthorpe | (SK8096) | Plough Mon. | Frag. | Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | ||
Hagworthingham | (TF3469) | c. 1889 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll., Brears (1932-34) | [1.] |
Halton Fenside | (TF4263) | c. 1860 | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] | |
Heckington | (TF1444) | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll. | |||
Helpringham | (TF1340) | c. 1900 | Plough Mon. | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll., BBC (1953b), Aram (1956-1957) | |
Hemswell | (SK9391) | Plough Mon. | No Text | Doubtful Wooing | Rudkin Coll. | ||
Hibaldstow | (SE9702) | 19th cty | Plough Mon. | Text | Wooing | Peacock (1901) | |
Holland | 1541 | 28 December | No Text | Doubtful | Lyte & Stevenson (1905) | [1.] | |
Holton le Clay | (TA2802) | Plough Mon. | No Text | Doubtful | Rudkin (1933) | ||
Isle of Axholme | (SE7-0-) | 1880 | Plough Mon. | No Text | Wooing | Anderson (1880) | |
Jerusalem | (SK9171) | Bef. 1914 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | |
Kirmington | (TA1011) | 1914 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Tiddy (1923), Carpenter Coll., Greig (1977), Fanoughty MS | [25.] |
Kirton in Lindsey | (SK9398) | c. 1914 | Christmas & Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Peacock (1901), Carpenter Coll. | [26.] |
( | Ordish Coll. | [27.] | |||||
Langworth | (TF0676) | Christmas | No Text | Doubtful | Rudkin (1933), Rudkin Coll. | [28.] | |
Leasingham | (TF0548) | c. 1880 | Plough Mon. | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Tucker (1936) | |
Lenton | (TF0230) | 1886 | Plough Mon. | No Text | Doubtful Visiting | Bede (1886), Helm Coll. | [29.] |
Lincoln | (SK9771) | 1540 | 29 December | No Text | Doubtful | Lyte & Stevenson (1905) | [1.] |
Little Limber | (TA1210) | c. 1890 | Christmas | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Helm Coll. | |
Little Ponton | (SK9312) | 1775 | No Text | Doubtful | Aswarby Collection | ||
Long Bennington | (SK8344) | early 20 cent. | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Spratley (1977) | [1.] | |
( | Rudkin Coll., Brears (n.d.) | [30.] | |||||
Manthorpe | (SK9137) | 1775 | No Text | Doubtful | Aswarby Collection | ||
Market Rasen | (TF1089) | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] | |
Marston | (SK8943) | Frag. | Doubtful Wooing | Rudkin Coll. | |||
Melton Ross | (TA0710) | 1916 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll., Barley Coll. | [1.] |
Messingham | (SE8904) | 1872 | Christmas to Plough Mon. | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Ordish Coll. | |
Middle Rasen | (TF0889) | c. 1894 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] |
Morton | (TF0924) | New Year | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley Coll. | [1.] | |
( | Barley (1953) | [31.] | |||||
Moulton Seas End | (TF3227) | c. 1880 | Plough Mon. | No Text | Doubtful | Barley (1953) | |
Mumby | (TF5174) | mid 19th cty | Christmas | Frag. | Wooing | Jones (1890) | [32.] |
Navenby | (SK9857) | late 19 cent.? | Christmas | No Text | Doubtful | Rudkin Coll., Marshall (1926) | [1.] |
Nettleham | (TF0075) | 1783 | January | No Text | Doubtful | Monson Accounts | |
New Holland | (TA0823) | c. 1880 | Christmas | Text | Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll., Barley (1953), Barley Coll., Rudkin Coll. | [33.] |
Normanby | (SE8816) | 1917 | Christmas | No Text | Wooing | Rudkin (1933), Rudkin Coll. | |
Normanton | (SK9446) | No Text | Doubtful | Rudkin Coll. | [1.] | ||
North Carlton | (SK9477) | 1790 | Christmas | No Text | Doubtful | Monson Accounts | |
North Scarle | (SK8567) | No Text | Hero-Combat + Dame Jane | Cawte Coll. | [1.] | ||
Old Somerby | (SK9633) | 1929 | Plough Mon. | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Jenkinson (1930), Barley (1953) | |
Osbournby | (TF0738) | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Cawte Coll. | [1.] | ||
Revesby | (TF2961) | 1779 | October | Text | Sword Dance Visiting | Morrice Dancers (1779) | [34.] |
Ropsley | (SK9934) | c. 1879 | 1st or 2nd Mon. in January | No Text | Doubtful | Howison Coll. | |
Saxilbv | (SK8975) | 1783 | January | No Text | Doubtful | Monson Accounts | |
Scawby | (SE9605) | No Text | Doubtful | Ordish Coll. | |||
Scopwick | (TF0758) | 1914 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | ||
Scotter | (SE8800) | Frag. | Hero-Combat + Dame Jane | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll., Rudkin Coll. | [35.] | ||
Scredington | (TF0940) | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Coll. | |||
Scunthorpe | (SE8910) | 1902 | Plough Mon. | No Text | Doubtful | Lindsey Star (1902), Rudkin (1933) | |
Silk Willoughby | (TF0542) | c. 1912 | Christmas | Frag. | Hero-Combat | Chambers Coll. | [1.] |
Skillington | (SK8925) | 1930s | Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Cawte Coll. | [1.] |
Sleaford | (TF0645) | ?Late 19th century | Christmas | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Oliver (1837), Barley Coll. | [36.] |
Sleaford | (TF0645) | 1541 | 29 December | No Text | Doubtful | Lyte & Stevenson (1905) | [1.] |
Somerby | (TA0606) | c. 1900 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Macnamara (1931) | |
South Carlton | (SK9576) | 1860s | No Text | Doubtful | Toyne (1936) | [1.] | |
South Carlton | (SK9576) | 1790 | January | No Text | Doubtful | Monson Accounts | |
South Kelsey | (TF0498) | 1896 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll., Village (1937) | [37.] |
Spittlegate | (SK9134) | 1775 | No Text | Doubtful | Aswarby Collection | ||
Stainby | (SK9022) | 1910 | Plough Monday | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Cawte Coll. | [1.] |
Stixwould | (TF1766) | 1893 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Ordish Coll. | [1.] |
Stoke Rochford | (SK9227) | 1541 | 29 December | No Text | Doubtful | Lyte & Stevenson (1905) | [1.] |
Stubton | (SK8748) | No Text | Doubtful | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] | ||
Swayfield | (SK9922) | c. 1913 | Plough Monday | No Text | Doubtful Wooing | Cawte Coll. | [1.] |
Swinderby | (SK8662) | 1874 | Christmas & Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Mummer Plays, Co. Lincoln (1823-1842), Carpenter Coll. | [38.] |
( | Rudkin Coll. | [16.] | |||||
Tathwell | (TF3283) | c. 1876 | Christmas to New Year | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll., Carpenter Coll. | [39.] |
Thealby | (SE8918) | 1917 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Rudkin Coll. | [40.] | |
Thornton Curtis | (TA0817) | Christmas | Frag. | Hero-Combat + Dame Jane | Barley Coll. | [41.] | |
Threekingham | (TF0836) | 1790 | Christmas | No Text | Doubtful | Cragg (1790) | [1.] |
Wainfleet All Saints | (TF4959) | 1891 | Christmas | No Text | Doubtful | Heanley (1901), Cawte Coll. | |
Wellingore | (SK9856) | c. 1890 | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley Coll. | [42.] | |
Welton | (TF0179) | Frag. | Doubtful | Rudkin Coll. | [43.] | ||
West Halton | (SE9020) | 1917 | Christmas & Plough Monday | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Lindsey Star (1902), Barley Coll., Russell Coll., Fanoughty MS, Rudkin Coll. | [44.] |
Western slope of Lincolnshire Wolds | c. 1875 | Plough Mon. | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Peacock (1901) | ||
Whitton | (SE9024) | 1917 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley (1953), Rudkin Coll. | [40.] | |
Willingham | (SK8784) | c. 1886 | Nov. 5th to Christmas | No Text | Hero-Combat Visiting | Rudkin Coll. | |
Willoughton | (SK9293) | c. 1889 | Plough Mon. | Text | Hero-Combat + Dame Jane | Rudkin (1939b) | [35.] |
Winteringham | (SE9322) | 1913 | No Text | Wooing | Russell Coll. | ||
Winterton | (SE9218) | 1920's | Plough Mon. | Frag. | Wooing | Peacock (1889), Peacock (1901), Beckwith (1967), Ordish Coll., Fanoughty MS | [45.] |
Wispington | (TF2071) | 1898 | No Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Ordish Coll. | [46.] | |
( | Ordish Coll. | [47.] | |||||
Wootton | (TA0815) | Christmas | Frag. | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Barley (1953), Barley Coll. | [41.] | |
Worlaby | (TA0113) | c. 1884 | Christmas | Text | Wooing / Hero-Combat | Carpenter Coll. | [1.] |
Footnotes | |
1. | Pt.3 addition |
2. | Pt.2 changes: 1928 and source Barley Coll. added |
3. | Pt.2 changes: Plough Monday changed to Christmas and Plough Monday. Source Carpenter Coll. added |
4. | Pt.2 change: Sources Barley Coll. and Rudkin Coll. added |
5. | Pt.3 change: 1929, New Year and source Cawte Coll. added |
6. | The source for Carpenter Coll. is the same as Rudkin, but includes Johnson's original holograph text. Pt.2 changes: Extant year changed from late 19th cty to late 1940's. Sources Carpenter Coll. and Johnson (1966) added |
7. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. No evidence in the MS for a play and Mrs, E.H.Rudkin says the evidence is only for a title for some performance, and should not be taken to imply a play. |
8. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. No evidence in Barley MS, and MWB thinks it is a misprint for Baston. |
9. | Pt.2 changes: Extant year changed from c.1910 to 1913. Source Barley Coll. added |
10. | Pt.2 changes: c.1850 changed to c.1874. Plough Monday changed to Christmas to New Year. Text availability changed from 'No Text' to 'Text', and Class from 'Doubtful' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat' Source Carpenter Coll. added |
11. | Pt.2 changes: Text availability changed from 'No Text' to 'Frag.'. Source Fanoughty MS added |
12. | This is the play given by Barley (1953) as Nettleton. Mr Gibbons (not Dixon as given in Barley (1953)) took it from the notebook of W. Shadford whose workshop was at Caistor, but whose family was buried at Nettleton. It seems more likely that the play was performed at Caistor that Nettleton (Helm Coll.). Pt.2 changes: Extant date changed from c.1850 to c.1930, and class from 'Doubtful' to 'Doubtful Wooing'. Source Carpenter Coll. added |
13. | Pt.2 change: Source Carpenter Coll. added |
14. | Pt.3 change: 1930s, Plough Monday, and source Cawte Coll. added. |
15. | Pt.1 change: Extant year added |
16. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. Same as Bicker. |
17. | Pt.1 change: [New entry following correction of Dunsby to Dowsby.] |
18. | Pt.1 change: Amend to Dowsby TF1129 'Frag.' 'Wooing / Hero-Combat' |
19. | Pt.2 change: c.1830 changed to c.1900 |
20. | Pt.2 changes: c.1879, before Christmas and source Carpenter Coll. added. Text availability changed from 'No Text' to 'Text', and class from 'Doubtful' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat'. |
21. | Pt.2 change: Source Barley Coll. added |
22. | Pt.2 changes: 1890's and source Barley Coll. added. Class changed from 'Doubtful' to 'Doubtful Visiting' |
23. | Pt.2 changes: 1890's, Plough Monday and source Barley Coll. added. Class changed from 'Wooing' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat' |
24. | Given as Great Hole in source. |
25. | Barley (1953), p. 69, refers to Kirkington in the Wolds, which is presumably a misprint for Kirmington. Pt.2 changes: 1914 and sources Carpenter Coll., Greig (1977) and Fanoughty MS added |
26. | Pt.2 changes: 1890's changed to c.1914, and Christmas to Christmas and Plough Monday. Source Carpenter Coll. added |
27. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. No evidence for a performance from Langton, and much of the evidence is clearly from elsewhere. |
28. | Referred to as Langwith in Rudkin (1933). |
29. | Pt.1 change: Class change from 'Hero-Combat Visiting' to 'Doubtful Visiting'. |
30. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. Text from Tathwell, and the performance at Lusby was short-lived, by a drama group, and modified. Reasons for deletion are made clear in the Hamer and Rudkin MSS. |
31. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. No record in the Barley MS, and MWB thinks it is an abbreviation for Moulton Seas End. |
32. | This is the play referred to in Barley (1953) as Alford as well as Mumby. |
33. | Pt.2 change: Text availability changed from 'Frag.' to 'Text'. Source Barley Coll. Rudkin Coll. added (Either collection) |
34. | See p.26 [of 'English Ritual Drama', regarding the time of appearance] |
35. | Pt.1 change: Class change from 'Wooing / Hero-Combat' to 'Hero-Combat + Dame Jane'. |
36. | Pt.2 change: ?Late 19th century and source Barley Coll. added. Class changed from 'Doubtful' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat' |
37. | Village (1937) appears to be a reprint of Rudkin Coll.. The latter, but not the former, states that the team at North Kelsey was visiting from South Kelsey. |
38. | Pt.2 changes: 1842 changed to 1874, Christmas to Christmas & Plough Monday and class 'Wooing' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat'. Source Carpenter Coll. added |
39. | Pt.2 changes: c.1876, Christmas to New Year, and source Carpenter Coll. added |
40. | Pt.1 change: Class change from 'Wooing' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat'. |
41. | Barley Coll. gives a text which has been made of fragments from these two places. [i.e. Thornton Curtis and Wooton] Pt.1 change: Class change from 'Wooing / Hero-Combat' to 'Hero-Combat + Dame Jane'. |
42. | Pt.1 changes: Text availability changed from 'Text' to 'Frag.'. Class change from 'Hero-Combat + Dame Jane' to 'Wooing / Hero-Combat'. |
43. | Pt.1 change: Class change from 'Wooing' to 'Doubtful'. |
44. | Pt.2 changes:1902 changed to 1917, Christmas to Christmas and Plough Monday, and text availability from 'Frag.' to 'Text'. Source Russell Coll. Fanoughty MS Rudkin Coll. added |
45. | Pt.2 changes: 1880 changed to 1920's. Sources Beckwith (1967), Ordish Coll. and Fanoughty MS added |
46. | Pt.1 change: Text availability changed from 'Text' to 'No Text'. |
47. | Pt.1 change: Delete entirely. No evidence for a resident team. |