Note 281 — Chapter IV · THE MINSTREL REPERTORY
Reading edition
Strutt, 194, quotes from Cott. MS. Nero, c. viii, a payment ‘Janins le Cheveretter (bagpiper) called le Tregettour,’ for playing before Edw. II. Collier, i. 30, quotes Lydgate, Daunce de Macabre (Harl. 116):
‘Maister John Rykell, sometyme tregitoure Of noble Henry kynge of Englonde, And of Fraunce the myghty conqueroure, For all the sleightes and turnyngs of thyne honde, Thou must come nere this daunce to understonde. . . . . . . . . Lygarde de mayne now helpeth me right nought.’