This reference from The Gentleman's Magazine was referred to in the important article in the Journal of the EFDSS in 1960, A Geographical Index of the Ceremonial Dance in Great Britain by Cawte, Helm, Peacock and Marriott. There are 3 other references to morris dance in Eyam, all by Sidney Oldall Addy, given in that 1960 index, with 1913 being given as the last date the morris dance was done in the village. I am not able to look up these 3 references, but in the late Dave Bathe's article on the Taddington, Derbyshire, morris dance, in the Folk Music Journal of 1985, he states that "few details of the [Eyam] dance are known". There are/were also morris dancers in Castleton, Tideswell and Winster.
Derek Schofield