On New Year’s Day, the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were out. They met at the Punchbowl at 2 p.m. before processing to the Market Place, where they danced for the crowd who had gathered.
Roger Cox, in his role as Fool, introduced each dance. For one dance he drew attention to a stone, inscribed 1556 – 2006, in the centre of the Market Place, commemorating the Abingdon Charter granted by Queen Mary in 1556.
He announced ‘Queen Mary’s Favour’, a dance created in 2006, for that same 450th anniversary. Here is a video in which the Morris dance round and salute their squire – The Mayor of Ock Street, Harry Knight.
Dancing may have kept some of them warm. Being danced round may be an honour, but not a way to keep warm on a cold day
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Thanks. I misunderstood ‘for kids’.
Queen Mary may have done a good thing for Abingdon but she was a horrible queen. Look at all those Protestants she burnt at the stake, including the 3 in Oxford.
Ah yes……..Monarchs who burnt catholics were much better?