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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that a 'groom of the stable was as good a man as a fiddler', in derision of the latter's love of music. … that a groom of the stable was as good a man as a fiddler (which terme of fiddler he did by way of derision and contempt putt upon the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Middlesex, Chapman called him 'a base gentleman and a fiddler's sonne', saying 'what he had spoken he would … carpenter of Hygate for theise words, Base gentleman, fiddler's son. For these I moved my L. Maltravers; they are … said of Sprignall that 'he was a base gentleman and a fiddler's son; and said he would justifie it.' The plaintiff …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… suggests to be a musician (as if he were a common fiddler) and whom I put into Hannay's office, the allegation …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… aforesaid county, he gave one shilling to John Cuppage, a fiddler in the said town, as a retainer to serve in Temple's …
Old and New London
… across the stage to the time and tune of one solitary fiddler, the strings of whose fidicula might easily be …