[279] Strutt, 173, 197; Jusserand, E. W. L. 212; Wright, 33-7.

[280] Gautier, ii. 67, quotes Joufrois, 1146:

‘Ainz veïssiez toz avant traire

Les jogleors et maint jou faire.

Li uns dançoit ...

Li autre ovrent de nigremance.’

[281] Strutt, 194, quotes from Cott. MS. Nero, c. viii, a payment ‘Janins le Cheveretter (bagpiper) called le Tregettour,’ for playing before Edw. II. Collier, i. 30, quotes Lydgate, Daunce de Macabre (Harl. 116):

‘Maister John Rykell, sometyme tregitoure

Of noble Henry kynge of Englonde,

And of Fraunce the myghty conqueroure,