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 (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 231
47. Mummers.—XIV. Centirt. These, and the other figures in the subjoined engraving, aretaken from a beautiful manuscript in the Bodleian Library,written and illuminated in the reign of Edward III. … 48. MvMMERS.—XIV. Century. The performance seems to have consisted chiefly in dancing,and the mummers arc 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, cLap. 7. No. 264. This MS.…
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