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

Du Cange, in voce Joculator.

See also sir John Hawkins's History of Music, vol ii. 44.

[ [676] Essais Hist. sur Paris, vol. ii. p. 39.

[ [677] "Orbis Sensualium Pictus," by Hoole, 1658; chap. 131.

[ [678] "Glowecesterscire. Berdic, joculator regis, habet iij villas, et ibi v car.; nil redd." Extract from Domesday.

[ [679] Essay on Ancient Minstrels, prefixed to bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry, vol. i. p. xciii.

[ [680] A Treatise against Dicing, Dauncing, vaine Playes, or Enterludes, &c. by John Northbrooke, printed at London in the time of Elizabeth.

[ [681] Egloge the third, at the end of Brant's "Ship of Fools," by Barclay, printed A.D. 1508.

[ [682] "Mirrour of Good Manners," translated from the Latin by Barclay, who was a priest and monk of Ely.

[ [683] Or hokos-pokos, as by Ben Jonson, in "The Staple for Newes." See p. [153]. This is the earliest mention I have found of this term. It occurs again in the Seven Champions, by John Kirk, acted in 1663; "My mother could juggle as well as any hocus-pocus in the world."