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The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… viz., his macebearer and clerk, and livery for three minstrels at eight shillings each, and eight shillings for a …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… suis apud London ad parliamentum, xiij s iij d." The minstrels of the Earl of Stafford receive 6 s. 8 d. and wine. … John Falke are the coroners. Livery is given to two town minstrels "voc. waytes" who in 1442 are styled "histriones," a term probably applied to minstrels as mingling some rough acting or dancing with their …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… 5th Amendment, Added the clause touching fiddlers and minstrels, declaring them to be rogues, vagabonds; &c. … out. Mr. Bodurda. In the statute touching fiddlers and minstrels, there has been a reservation of the privileges of … This privilege is excepted by another statute. These minstrels do corrupt the manners of the people, and inflame …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… Book of the Foundation; but it has been pointed out that minstrels were also reciters of poems, story-tellers, and …
Survey of London
… "harness" for the "Resurrection," paid various waits and minstrels and gave 6s. 8d. to the keepers of Barkyng …
Survey of London Monograph
… of one Granado Chester, a grocer. On a level with the minstrels' gallery a floor had been inserted, making a first …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… New Year's night, 40 s. The Styll minstrells, 4 l. Queen's minstrels, 40 s. Rewards to servants of the King, nobility … 33 s. 4 d. Bonitamps, Petie John, Cokeryn and Baltasar, minstrels, reward 40 s. Alexander, goldsmith, jewels and … my Lord of Durham to London at midnight by boat, 12 d. 4 minstrels of Normandy, 66 s. 8 d. Messenger to my Lord of …