Note Ee2 — APPENDIX I. AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND.
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[This art seems to have put an end to the profession, &c.] Although I conceive that the character ceased to exist, yet the appellation might be continued, and applied to fidlers, or other common musicians: which will account for the mistakes of Sir Peter Leicester, or other modern writers. (See his Historical Antiquities of Cheshire, 1673, p. 141.)