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

[ [630] A confectioner.

[ [631] That is, if he could tell falsehoods to make men laugh.

[ [632] Lack, or want.

[ [633] Because.

[ [634] Dance, nor jump. Pass. xiv.

[ [635] Duty in their several stations.

[ [636] Lord Berners' Froissart, vol. iv. cap. 41.

[ [637] Anstis, Ord. Gart. vol. ii. p. 303.

[ [638] Liber de Computis Garderobæ, MS. Cott. Lib. Nero, C. viii. fol.82.

[ [639] Cheveretter, or bagpiper; from chevre, a bagpipe, and tregettor, or juggler, a slight of hand player; Ibid. See more on this subject in the next chapter relating to the joculator.