Somewhere or other I have a photocopy of an Elizabethan painting showing some mummers, one of whom is wearing a horse costume. The painting shows the mummers with a Tudor palace in the background.

Now, if I could only remember the name of the palace (or where I left the photocopy) someone might know if mummers are still in the area. However this would not prove they have existed in an unbroken lines since the painter took up his brush.

sandra