Note 273 — DIARY OF RICHARD COCKS. (continued 8)
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A technical term for a band of musicians. See an entry in Alleyn’s Diary (in this same year, 8 Dec., 1617), “given a noyse off trumpeters yt sownded, 0 : 2 : 6”.—G. F. Warner, Catalogue of MSS. of Dulwich College, 1881, p. 167.