 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1825 - 330 pagina’s
...men in short coats, the usual habit of minstrels, one of whom holds an instrument resembling a lute. The extensive privileges enjoyed by the minstrels,...became so. notorious, that in the reign, of Edward U. it was thought necessary to restrain them by a public edict, which states, that many indolent persons,... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 420 pagina’s
...claim their reward by a prescriptive right, and settled its amount according to the estimation they had formed of their own abilities, and the opulence of...induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume the characters of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. These evils became at last so notorious,... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 492 pagina’s
...claim their reward by a prescriptive right, and settled its amount according to the estimation they had formed of their own abilities, and the opulence of...but also induced many idle and dissipated persons to • - un:i' the characters of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. These evils became at last... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - 1838 - 500 pagina’s
...claim their reward by a prescriptive right, and settled its amount according to the estimation they had formed of their own abilities, and the opulence of...artists not only occasioned great numbers to join their frater nity, but also induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume the characters of minstrels,... | |
 | 1850 - 688 pagina’s
...reward them as they should think fit and becoming. The large gratuities collected by these wanderers not only occasioned great numbers to join their fraternity,...dissipated persons to assume the character of minstrels, merely as an excuse for a pleasant vagabond life, enjoyed at the expense of their neighbours. This... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1850 - 688 pagina’s
...every house his own as long as his stories lasted. The large gratuities collected by these wanderers not only occasioned great numbers to join their fraternity,...and dissipated persons to assume the character of minstrel*, merely as an excuse for a pleasant vagabond life, enjoyed at the expense of their neighbours.... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1851 - 680 pagina’s
...devil." " The large gratuities collected by these artists," the same antiquarian writer further says, " not only occasioned great numbers to join their fraternity,...induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume the characters of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. These evils became at last so notorious,... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pagina’s
...thought proper to intrude. Their large gratuities drew great numbers to join their fraternity, and induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume...character of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. To restrain these abuses a mandate of 9th Edward II. (1315) ordains that no person should resort to... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - 1858 - 440 pagina’s
...thought proper to intrude. Their large gratuities drew great numbers to join their fraternity, and induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume...character of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. To restrain these abuses n mandate of ;lth Edward II. (1315) ordains that no person should resort to... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 574 pagina’s
...devil." "The large gratuities collected by these artists," the same antiquarian writer further says, " not only occasioned great numbers to join their fraternity,...induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume the characters of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. These evils became at last so notorious,... | |
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The large gratuities collected by these artists not only occasioned great numbers to join their fraternity, but also induced many idle and dissipated persons to assume the characters of minstrels, to the disgrace of the profession. 
