Note F — ENGLISH COURT FOOLS, FROM THE REIGN OF EDMUND IRONSIDE. (continued 3)

“Trunchman.” In ‘Revels at Court,’ p. 126, in an account of a “Maske of Amasones” (A.D. 1577), appears a “Troocheman” among the characters represented. At p. 140 we read of a payment made “To Patrochius Ubaldinus, by the Commandment of the Lord Chamberlain, for the translating of certain speeches into Italian, to be used in the mask.” I therefore take the “trunchman” of Archie, to mean Dragoman, or Interpreter. In Pepys’s time the word was written “Druggerman.”