The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [50] Smale harpers with ther glees.

[ [51] Cornmuse and Shalmes—many a floyte and lytlyngehorne.

[ [52] Pypes made of grene corne are also mentioned in the Romance of the Rose.

[ [53] These are the author's own words.

[ [54] In the chapters on Minstrels, Jugglers, &c. pp. 170, 197. The plays and pageants exhibited at court are described in the chapter treating on Theatrical Amusements, p. 150.

[ [55] [Before 1801.]

[ [56] Garrick's Collection of Old Plays, H. vol. iii.

[ [57] No. 2220, fol. 7

[ [58] Or waits, the band of city minstrels.

[ [59] See further on, p. xlvi.