References
- King of Minstrels and of Heralds: described in 29 Ed I as ‘taborer’ and ‘king's trumpeter’.
- King of the Heralds of Scotland.
- An apprentice?
- Doncaster and Crakestreng were the trumpeters of Earl Warrenne.
- Not the Conrad above: these three gigatores were minstrels of the King of Germany.
- The trumpeter? See also the next reign.
- There is not enough material to attempt to identify John or Januche with either Master John or John de Cateloyne.
- Described as nakerer in 31 Ed I.
- Paid for minstrelsy in this year.
- There are several problems concerning these four trumpeters. As they do not appear on a list all together, it is possible that the two Johns are in fact one person. Also, the names are those of the four trumpeters listed under the king's household for this date.
- On this date Stephen de Northampton left the service of Thomas and Edmund because of infirmity.
- On this date William de Salisbury left the service of Thomas and Edmund.
- Elias de Garsynton seems to have left the king's service for a time after Edward I's death: he was admitted to the king's wages in January, 5 Ed II.
- Probably an apprentice.
- Possibly the piper who appears in the next reign: this is the only reference temp Ed. II.
- Perhaps an apprentice.
- Also called William and Robert in error.
- Perhaps identifiable with the queen's minstrel of the same name in Ed. Ill's reign.
- As n.6, above.
- Marshal of the Minstrels, 37–38 Ed. in.
- Perhaps John Perrot, cornemuser: seen.4, below.
- Perhaps the player of a bass shawm: see Frank LI. Harrison, Music in Medieval Britain, London, 1958, p. 206; and the New Oxford History of Music, III, London, 1960, p.494, on bagpipes. I have found other household fools playing a pipe instrument of some sort.
- Probably Perrot, piper. Possibly also the man of that name who made the eschequier taken by him as a gift to the King of France from Edward III in 1360: see L. DouetD'arcq, Comptes de L'Argenterie des Rois de France au XIVe siècle, Paris, 1851, p. 273
- Formerly minstrel of the Bishop of Ely.
- Described as ‘parvus ministrallus Regis’: he was probably an apprentice.
- Perhaps a former minstrel of the Bishop of Ely.
- See the last reign, nn. 6 and 7.
- As n. 6, above: the various psaltery-players of this reign named John may not all be the same man.
- See n. 4, above, for another possible identification.
- Perhaps to be identified with John de Mees, who may have been a piper. The name could be ‘Cornmusere’.
- In 1352 the prince employed four pipers sent to him by the Count of Eu: Hans and Soz are probably two of these.
- Also Willyn, Zeulyn or Yevelyn.
- For the last ten years of the reign the future Henry V lived at Court, and for the last five his father was an exile. During this period many Lancaster servants joined the service of the king, minstrels among them. Those known to be former Lancaster minstrels are: William de Bingley, William de York, Claux nakerer; those of the next reign are footnoted there. See Lucy Toulmin Smith, ed., Expeditions to Prussia…. made by Henry, Earl of Derby, in Camden Society, London, 1894.
- Marshal in ElOl/403/25.
- Momford appears in the Account Rolls of Durham Priory, ed. J. T. Fowler, Surtees Society, 103, 1898, 3 vols.
- E101/403/22, f. 29, contains an entry recording a gift to Gildeford on leaving Court, apparently for good (16–17 Ric. II).
- See the next reign.
- Perhaps the John Brothir who was a trumpeter of the Lancaster household.
- Melton, like Guy Middleton, was probably a vigilator: for Middleton, see under the next reign.
- Formerly of the Lancaster household.
- John Cliff II was probably dead by the end of the reign, and almost certainly by 1423, as he does not appear in the grant in the Patent Rolls of that year.
- i. e., a player of a bas instrument.
- Sergeant, 1447.
- Probably dead by September, 1451.
- Marshal in 1448: dead by May, 1449.
- Probably dead by March, 1456.
- As n.4.
- Called John Wykes in error, 30–31 Hen. VI.
- King's minstrel from Michaelmas, 1458.
- Marshal of the Trumpets, 1467.
- Marshal of the Minstrels, 19 January, 1464.
- Marshal of the Minstrels, 1477: dead by 24 July, 1482.
- Formerly minstrel of Richard, Duke of York, the king's father, and so probably a king's minstrel from Edward's accession: dead by 4 April, 1465.
- i.e., gestour. In 1477 Mason was granted the reversion of the office of Marshal of the Still Minstrels: presumably he became Marshal on John Cliff's death in 1482. See the next reign, n. 3.
- Possibly a trumpeter: I have put him with the minstrels until the reign of Hen. VII.
- King's minstrel from Easter, 16 Ed. IV.
- Formerly minstrel of George, Duke of Clarence. Clarence was executed in 1478.
- Marshal of the Minstrels in the list of minstrels at the coronation, 1483.
- William Elyston in the coronation list as published by Lafontaine.
- Mason appears in the coronation list as Saunder Marshall.
- Perhaps the harper of Prince Edward (i. e., Edward V): see the last reign.
- The list of taborers and trumpeters at the coronation does not seem to include any minstrel who was a king's minstrel at the time: and some of those listed above under minstrels may not have been royal minstrels then. But as some of them later appear as household minstrels in the reign of Henry VE, the whole list is given here.
- Probably Marshal of the Trumpets by 1487–8: see Giles E. Dawson, Records of Plays and Players in Kent, 1450–1642, in Malone Society Collections, VII, Oxford, 1965, p.5.
- As Glasebury became Marshal of the Minstrels by Easter, 1495, Mason was probably dead at that date.
- Perhaps Jaket, trumpeter.
- Marshal of the Minstrels at Easter, 1495.
- Perhaps Bountas, cornettist of the Queen of Scots.
- Lorydon, Markassen and Anows were transferred to the king's household after the death of Queen Elizabeth.
- Marshal of the Minstrels in 1509.
- Perhaps one of the two minstrels named Arnold listed with the king's household, above.
- Princess Margaret married James IV of Scotland in 1503, and after that date her minstrels became part of the Scottish royal household. Continuing service is indicated here by LHTScot, which refers to vol.11 (1900) of the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, ed. Sir J. B. Paul.
- See n. 5, above.