Note 1138 — APPENDIX I. AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND. (continued 2)
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Gests at length came to signify adventures or incidents in general. So in a narrative of the journey into Scotland of Queen Margaret and her attendants, on her marriage with K. James IV. in 1503 (in appendix to Leland. Collect. iv. p. 265), we are promised an account "of their gestys and manners during the said voyage."