. Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush. eneLondon and that Citty, in his late Morrice. Whereinis somewhat set downe worth note ; to reproove theslaunders spred of him ; many things merry, nothinghurtfull. Written by himselfe to satisfie his , printed by E. A., for Nicholas Ling, and are tobe solde at his shop at the west doore of Saint PaulesChurch. 1600, 4to., b. 1. * Kemp performed a sort of dancing journey betweenthe two cities in 1599, which caused suc
. Rush-bearing: an account of the old custom of strewing rushes; carrying rushes to church; the rush-cart; garlands in churches; morris-dancers; the wakes; the rush. eneLondon and that Citty, in his late Morrice. Whereinis somewhat set downe worth note ; to reproove theslaunders spred of him ; many things merry, nothinghurtfull. Written by himselfe to satisfie his , printed by E. A., for Nicholas Ling, and are tobe solde at his shop at the west doore of Saint PaulesChurch. 1600, 4to., b. 1. * Kemp performed a sort of dancing journey betweenthe two cities in 1599, which caused such a sensationthat he was induced to print an account of it in 1600, * Of the original edition, only one copy, a quarto of about twenty pages, isknown, and is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In 1840, it was reprinted for theCamden Society, with notes by the Rev. A. Dyce ; and, in 1884, Mr. EdmundGoldsmid, , reprinted it in the Collectanea Adamantrea series of re-prints, also with notes. An interesting article on Will Kemp, and his Dancefrom London to Norwich, with a facsimile of the woodcut, is given in WalfordsAntiquarian, 1886, vol. 10, pp. THE MORRIS-DANCERS. 133 dedicated to Mistris Anne Fitton, # one of QueenElizabeths maids of honour. The title-page is adornedwith a woodcut, representing Kemp dancing, and hisattendant, Tom the Piper, playing on the pipe andtabor, whom Kemp, in his book, calls Thomas Slye,his taborer. Kemp started from London at seven in the morning,on the first Monday in Lent, and, after various adven-tures, reached Romford that night, where he restedduring Tuesday and Wednesday. He started againon Thursday morning, and made an unfortunatebeginning by straining his hip, but he continued hisprogress, attended by a great number of spectators,and on Saturday morning reached Chelmsford, wherethe crowd assembled to receive him was so great thatit took him an hour to make his way through them tohis lodgings. At this town, where Kemp remained t
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