- See the charge given by the steward, at the time of the election, in Plot's hist. ubi
supra: and in Hawkins, p. 67, Burney, p. 363-4. - So among the heraldsNorreywas anciently styledRoy d'Armes de North.--
Anstis, ii, 300. And the Kings at Armes in general were originally calledReges
Heraldorum(ibid. p. 302), as these wereReges Minstrallorum. - Rymer's Fœdera, tom. vii. p. 555.
- Rymer's Fœdera, tom. ix. 255.
- Ibid. p. 260.
- See his chronicle, sub anno 1415 (p. 1170). He also gives this other instance of the
king's great modesty, "that he would not suffer his helmet to be carried with him, and
shew'd to the people, that they might behold the dintes and cuttes whiche appeared in
the same, of such blowes and stripes as hee received the daye of the batell:"-- Ibid.
Vid. T. de Elmham, c. 29, p. 72.
The prohibition against vain and secular songs would probably not include
that inserted in our first vol., For the Victory at Agincourt,. which would be
considered a a hymn. The original notes engraven on the plate before the poem, may
be seen reduced and set to score in Mr. Stafford Smith's "Collection of English Songs
for three and four voices," and in Dr. Burney's Hist. of Music, ii. p. 384.
- Tom. ix. 336.
- Rymer, tom. x. 287. They are mentioned by name, being ten in number; one of
them was namedThomas Chatterton. - Tom. xi. 375.
- See it in Rymer, tom. xi. 642, and Sir J. Hawkins, vol. iv. p. 366, note. The above
Charter is recited in letters patent of King Carles I., 15 July (11 anno regni), for a
Corporation of Musicians, &c., in Westminster, which may be seen, ibid. - Rymer, ix. 255.
- Ibid. xi. 375.
- Ibid. xi. 512.
- Here unfortunately ends a curious fragment (an. 9 E. IV.), ad calcem Sprotti
Chron. ed. Hearne, Oxon. 1719, 8vo. Vide' T. Warton's Hist. ii. p. 134. Note (c).
53 Rymer, xi. 642.
- Ibid. xii. 705.
- Ibid. tom. xiv. 2, 93.
- So I am inclined to understand the term SERVIENSnoster Hugo Wodehous, in
the original grant -- See Rymer, ubi supra. It is needless to observe thatServiens
expressed a Sergeant as well as a Servant. If this interpretation of Serviens be
allowed, it will account for his placing Wodehouse at the head of his Gild, although
he had not been one of the eight minstrels who had had the general direction. The
Serjeant of his Minstrels, we may presume, was next in dignity to the Marshal,
although he had no share in the government of the Gild. - See below, and Note (GG).