Chapter III

I. The British Bards--II. The Northern Scalds--III. The
Anglo-Saxon Gleemen--IV. The Nature of their Performances--V.
A Royal Player with three Darts--VI. Bravery of a Minstrel in
the Conqueror's Army--VII. Other Performances by Gleemen--VIII.
The Harp an Instrument of Music much used by the Saxons--IX.
The Norman Minstrels, and their different Denominations and
Professions--X. Troubadours--XI. Jestours--XII. Tales and
Manners of the Jesters--XIII. Further Illustration of their
Practices--XIV. Patronage, Privileges, and Excesses of the
Minstrels--XV. A Guild of Minstrels--XVI. Abuses and Decline of
Minstrelsy--XVII. Minstrels were Satirists and Flatterers--XVIII.
Anecdotes of offending Minstrels, Women Minstrels--XIX. The
Dress of the Minstrels--XX. The King of the Minstrels, why so
called--XXI. Rewards given to Minstrels--XXII. Payments to
Minstrels--XXIII. Wealth of certain Minstrels--XXIV. Minstrels
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CHAPTER IV.

I. The Joculator--II. His different Denominations and
extraordinary Deceptions--III. His Performances ascribed
to Magic--IV. Asiatic Jugglers--V. Remarkable Story from
Froissart--VI. Tricks of the Jugglers ascribed to the Agency of
the Devil; but more reasonably accounted for--VII. John Rykell,
a celebrated Tregetour--VIII. Their various Performances--IX.
Privileges of the Joculators at Paris.--The King's Joculator an
Officer of Rank--X. The great Disrepute of modern Jugglers 197