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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1500-1640

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Minstral(l, -ale, n. Also: mynstral(l, -ale; ministral(l; minstrel(l; ministrel. [ME. minstrale, mynstrale (14th c., Chaucer), mynstrell (1423), munstral (14–15th c.), e.m.E. minstrel(l, -all, mynystrell, OF. ministral, -terel, var. of menestral Menstral(l n.] An entertainer; espec. a musician, instrumentalist. = Menstral(l n.(a) 1329 Exchequer Rolls I. 210.
Ministrallis ad nupcias de Berwic
1529 Ib. XV. 682.
To ceis fra ony forther payment … to the Italiane ministralis
(b) 1516 Treasurer's Accounts V. 82.
To James Tabbaner, now the King's minstrale in Striveling
1531 Bell. Boece (M) I. 392.
All ydill pepill as iuglaris, mynstrallis, bardis and skafferis [L. mimos, histriones, bardos, parasitos] … to fynd sum crafft to wyn thair leving
1539 Treas. Acc.VII. 199.
To foure mynstralis that playis upoun the trumpettis of weir
1562 Dumfries B. Ct. fol. 122.
Chosin minstrale for ane ȝeir
1589 Mill Mediæval Plays 254.(c) 1586 Paterson Ayr & Wigton I. 92.
That the common ministrels of the toun, pyper and drummer, gang dayly ilk day through the toun
(d) 15.. Clariodus ii. 1474.
They micht his [the King's] minstrellis heir
15.. Ib. v. 1530, 1624. 1578 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. 77.
The toun hes feit Johne Thomson minstrell quhill Mertymes for xx s.
1579 Duncan Glasg. Physic. & Surg. 227.
Aegyptians, minstrels, sangsters and taletellers
1596 Dalr. II. 14/14. 1605 Dunferm. Ann. 263.
To the minstrellis at the touns congratulation for his Majesty being deliverit
1621 Acts IV. 626/1. 1640 Moray Synod 53.
Mr. John Marshall, minister … , hawing a minstrell playing to the church and frome the same befoir them is sharplie … rebucked

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