Hi,

Happy New Year to all. I have finished for now my study of "Madam" and its appendices.

I've proofed Madam again (it needed it): http://bluegrassmessengers.com/8-madam-i-have-come-to-court-you-.aspx

The last appendix (folk plays) is roughed in and has the following plays with stanzas of Madam:

    A. "Plough Monday Play" recreated from tradition about 1860 by Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary of Craney Creek, Kentucky. Collected by about 1930 Marie Campbell and published in JAF, 1938.
    B. "Plough Jags," taken from Elsham-Brigg of Lincoln learned about 1880. From James Madison Carpenter and the Mummers' Play by Steve Roud and Paul Smith (Folk Music Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, Special Issue on the James Madison Carpenter Collection (1998), pp. 496-513).
    C. "Brattleby, Lincolnshire Mummers' Play" from Mrs E.H.Rudkin Collection. The words were noted by Alice Wright while the mummers still played about 1894. They were preserved In a Family Scrap Album.
    D. "Kirmington Plough-Jags Play," from Kirmington, Lincolnshire as published in R.J.E. Tiddy's "The Mummers' Play" Oxford, University Press, 1923, pp. 254-257. According to Greig: "This particular play seems to have been added to Tiddy's collection by Rupert Thomson, who edited the book for publication after the author was killed in action on August 10th, 1916."
    E. "Carlton-Le-Moorland Ploughboys," dated 1934; from Lincolnshire Plough Plays by E. H. Rudkin from Folklore, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Mar., 1939), pp. 88-97.
    F. "Barrow-on-Humber Plough Play," from a MS in M. W. Barley Collection, University of Nottingham Library. Performed at the Festival of Britain Pageant at Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, 1951.
    G. "Coleby Plough-Jag," recreated from an earlier tradition in 1974 by M.C. Ogg of Coleby, Lincolnshire from information by Mr. Roly Redhead of Burton on Stather and Mr. Arthur Gelder of Alkboro' Lane.

There may be others but theses are the ones that I found so far. The rough draft of the folk plays is here: http://bluegrassmessengers.com/8g-madam-i-have-gold-and-silver-folk-plays-.aspx

I've proofed the other appendices which are:

8A. "Oh No, John," "No Sir" and "she answered No."

8B. The Courting Case (Courting Cage); "O Miss, I Have A Very Fine Farm,"

8C. On a Mountain Stands a Lady (Children's game songs)

8D. The Quaker's Courtship, or, Quaker's Wooing

8E. The Spanish Lady ("Dublin City," "Madam, I'm a Darling," or "Chester City," "Galway City," "Ettrick Lady") All Spanish Lady variants (Five basic types).

8F. Come My Little Roving Sailor ("Roving Sailor")

8G. Madam I have Gold and Silver (Folk Plays)

Hopefully this study will shed some light on these songs,

Richie