[ [670] Legerdemain; a corrupted word, derived from the French, signifying properly slights of hand, such as are usually performed by the modern jugglers.
[ [671] More cunning tricks.
[ [672] Garrick's Collection of Old Plays, K. vol. ii.
[ [673] "Janino le tregettor, facienti ministralsiam suam coram rege," &c.; that is, to Janino the tregetour, for performing his minstrelsy before the king, in his chamber near the priory of Swineshead, twenty shillings. Lib. Comput. Garderobæ, an. 4 Edw. II. fol. 86. MS. Cott. Nero, C. viii.
[ [674] The same as the modern hurdy-gurdy.
[ [675] Their performances are thus described by a French poet who wrote in the year 1230:
C'il juggleurs in pies esturent,
S'ont vielles et harpes prisses
Chansons, sons, vers, et reprises,
Et gestes chante nos ont.