The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 227
47. Mummers.—XIV. Cf.ntup.y. These, and the other figures m the subjoined engraving, aretaken from a beautiful manuscript in the Bodleian Library,written and illuminated in the reign of Edward III.^ … 48. MlTMMEHS.—XIV. Centttiiv. The performance seems to have consisted chiefly in dancing,and the mummers are usually attended by the minstrels playingupon different kinds of musical instruments. • Warton, vol. iii. p. 156. See also Dr. Henry, Hist. Brit. vol. vi. book vi. chap. 7.No, 264. This MS.…
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