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The Truro cordwainers' play: a "new" eighteenth-century Christmas play - Research article: focus on traditional drama
Folklore, April, 2003 by Peter Millington
[7] The Enys family were, and still are, major landowners in western Cornwall. Samuel Enys bought the manor of Kenwyn and Truro in 1706. Their country mansion is at Enys, near Mylor Bridge and Penryn, but they also had town houses in Truro.
[8] The Constable's Lists were compiled in 1803 for each parish, as part of the mobilisation for the war with France. They list all men between the ages of 17 and 55, giving their occupations, and classifying them into four broad categories according to age and marital status:
* First Class. Men aged between 17 and 30, unmarried, no children living under 10 years.
* Second Class. Men aged between 30 to 50, unmarried, no children living under 10 years.
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* Third Class. Men aged between 17 to 30, married with two children under 10 years.
* Fourth Class. Remainder of men aged between 17 and 55.
There are also remarks regarding infirmity and membership of the local militias. The Royal Institution of Cornwall holds the Constable's Lists for the Borough of Truro and the adjacent parish of St Clements, but the list for Kenwyn either no longer exists, or has been lost.
[9] While "liberty" has a long history as a war cry for revolutionaries worldwide, in Ireland the slogan "civil and religious liberty" is particularly associated with the protestant Orange Order.
[10] In 1801 and 1802 the masthead of The Cornwall Gazette and Falmouth Packet boasted "Circulated with utmost expedition through London, Liverpool, Hull, Bristol," etc. This was because Falmouth, being the westernmost port for packet ships in England, was often the first recipient of news from overseas, and the direct packets to Liverpool could deliver the news faster than the time it took for coaches to reach London and then travel on to the provinces.
[11] Alexander and the King of Egypt is currently the oldest known full hero-combat text, dated by Preston et al. (1977) somewhere between 1746 and 1769. Truro is the oldest Father Christmas and Turkish Knight text, now dated in this paper in the late 1780s. The earliest Irish text is the Smyth and Lyons chapbook dated somewhere between 1803 and 1818 (Boyes et al. 1999)
References Cited
Addison, Joseph. Rosamond, An Opera. London: Jacob Tonson, 1707.
Baskervill, Charles Read. "Mummers' Wooing Plays in England." Modern Philology 21 (1924):225-72.
Boase, George Clement. Collectanea Cornubiensia: A Collection of Biographical and Topographical Notes Relating to the County of Cornwall. Truro: G. C. Boase, 1890.
Bodleian Library. Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: The Allegro Catalogue of Ballads. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1999 (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm, accessed 7 September 2001).
Borlase, William. The Natural History of Cornwall. Oxford: W. Jackson, 1758.
Bottrell, Willam. Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall. 2nd series. Penzance: Beare and Sons, 1873.
Boyes, Georgina, M. J. Preston and Paul Smith. Chapbooks and Traditional Drama: An Examination of Chapbooks Containing Traditional Play Texts: Part II: Christmas Rhyme Books. Sheffield: University of Sheffield, 1999.
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