Note 217 — Chapter III · THE MINSTREL LIFE
Reading edition
The entry ‘ad solvendum histrionibus’ occurs in 1364 (Compoti Camerarii Scot. i. 422). The Exchequer Rolls from 1433-50 contain payments to the ‘mimi,’ ‘histriones,’ ‘ioculatores regis’; and in 1507-8 for the ‘histriones in scaccario’ or ‘minstrels of the chekkar’ (Accounts of Treasurer of Scotland, i. xx, cxcix; ii. lxxi).