1801 Weymouth July 18th
The King and Queen rode to the north Devon camp to review the Staffordshire militia. ..
”  After refreshment the noble visitors were entertained with the enlivening music
of the Staffordshire band, which, accompanied by the merry pipe and tabor, afforded
great satisfaction to the Royal Family.”
London Courier and Evening Gazette - Monday 20 July 1801

1802 essay:
“Serpents are affected by music ; and they will raise and twill themselves with every variety
of lively motion, to the pipe and tabor.”

‘The Anatomy of the Human Body’ by Bell, John, Bell, Charles, Sir

1806 India: advertised
A sale of goods, imported by ship, on 2nd January 1807 included wine, fabrics, haberdashery
and musical instruments, including a pipe and tabor.

Madras Courier - Wednesday 31 December 1806

1812 Grand Masquerade at Vauxhall, London: a newspaper reporter commented on:
“A Savoyard, with his pipe and tabor, his wife with a tambourine, and a pretty girl, his daughter ...”

Star (London) - Tuesday 21 July 1812

1814 Peckham Fair - an order was made to keep the peace:
“The grand camp formed at Camberwell Green ... Unfortunately for the sons and daughters of mirth,
the following magisterial mandate was posted at an early hour abou the town :...

whereas the multitude of places for the entertainment of the lower sort of people.is the great cause of thefts
and robberies... ; be it enacted, that any.house, room, garden, or other place, kept for public dancing, music,
or other entertainment of the like kind in the streets of London and Westminster, or within twenty miles, thereof...
A great number of lame musicians, blind sons of Apollo, and other wandering Minstrels... They retreated each
with his pipe, oaten read, tabor, oboe, Jews -harp, pedal-hare, etc.

Star (London) - Tuesday 23 August 1814

1828 musical manual
“The Tabor and Pipe have so long been united, especially as accompaniments to dancing, that there seems
to be a propriety in describing them together. The Tabor, or drum, is of small circumference, and very shallow;
the Pipe is short, and blown into at the end. They are both used at the same time, the Pipe by the left hand,
the Tabor by the right; and the combined effect is calculated to excite hilarity, and delight the common ear.”

1829 letter to the Editor:
"Departed spirits of the churn! who saw this devoted town in prosperity, who were wont to hear
the tabor and the pipe gladden the hearts of our peasantry, rise up, and save us from the evils of refinement:"

Cheltenham Journal and Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette. - Monday 13 July 1829

1791 'Country Theatricals' - a letter to the editor regarding Cheltenham Theatre:
“the house is painted and decorated in a style of neat elegance ...Cupid smilingly points his bow, an attendant genius merrily
playing the tabor and pipe ...”

October 15th 1791 quoted in Cheltenham Examiner - Wednesday 19 November 1884

1829 Morning Herald (London) - Saturday 08 August 1829

1805 Samuel Johnson ‘A dictionary of the English Language'
‘Maidmarian A kind of dance so called from a buffoon dressed like a man who plays tricks to the populace.  
A set of morrice dancers danced a maidmarian with a tabor and pipe’ Temple

1811, 19 January
Died "At Easton, near Winchester, aged 94 years,
Mr. John Bucksey, a well-known pipe and tabor player, who has assisted in promoting the merry dance
to at least three generations of the gay and sprightly."

Jackson's Oxford Journal

1811, 14 January
better known " by the name of Old Bucksey the Fiddler; his usual instrument, however, was the pipe and tabor.
Few men, in his humble walk of life, were so well known to the fashionable and gay world. "

The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle

1796 a Masquerade Ball was held at “Orchardley-House, near Frome, at which near 200 persons were
present, dressed in various fancy characters ....The principal characters were, a Dancing Bear, led by his
Keeper playing on the tabor and pipe;”

Ipswich Journal - Saturday 24 December 1796

1810 bear description
"...Sometimes we observe the rugged beast compelled to walk in an upright posture, with a monkey on its shoulder,
and surrounded by a number of dancing dogs, ridiculously dressed like so many little boys and girls, all moving to some
tune played on a pipe and tabor. It is well indeed, that these powerful animals lose much of their native ferocity, by being
reared among mankind ; and even exhibit in many cases, a great degree of attachment towards their keepers ; for their
patience is oftentimes put to the severest trials, by men who are not unfrequently more brutal than themselves. We hope,
however, that what has been stated of the mode of subduing the temper of the Bear is not true; and that he is not almost
starved to death, and severely beaten every day till he yields obedience to his savage masters, nor that he is tauglit to dance
by being set upon heated iron-plates. "

‘The wonders of animated nature consisting of descriptions at large and engraved representations of the principal animals
and birds in the Royal menageries of London and Paris’

1819 poem
XVIII.
“The Bear had late escap’d from basest labour,
And fled from dirty streets, to down and dell,
Damning his master, monkey, pipe and tabor ;
His ears still rung with drone, squeak, thump, and bell
Detain’d by man, who kept him for his pleasure,
And held it mirth to see him mar a measure….”

'The Court and Parliament of Beasts'; by Casti, Giovanni Battista,  Rose, William Stewart

1822 'The Dancing Bear' painted by Witherington
“Mr. Witherington’s Bear has afforded us much pleasant amusement, both in the original and in this admirable print.
We, however, do not perfectly approve of the mixture of dotted and line manner which has been adopted by Mr. M….
Among the features which interested us more than others, we may notice the bear-leader and the performer on the
pipe and tabour, and the group of children striving to get out of Bruin’s way. We feel pieasure in adding that, as
a whole, few prints, both as to subject and execution, have gratified us more.”

The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review 1828-02-16: Vol 9 Iss 457

1828 newspaper report of court case:

Charles Kendall was charged with destroying a drum the property of a poor Italian boy, named Joseph Bernardi.
Wilkinson, the constable, saw the defendant follow the boy, who got his livelihood by exhibiting dancing dolls,
with a pipe and tabor, and wantonly burst open the latter with his foot. The prisoner said he stumbled off the
pavement, and by accident broke the drum. He was ordered to pay 6s. for the damage, 2s. 6d. to the officer.

Star (London) - Saturday 15 November 1828