UK terminology

16th century - tabouret / tabret / taboret / taberett / taberet

1. tabouret
John Palsgrave's dictionary (c 1480 - 1551)
a dictionary to help English people learn French. 'L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse',
printed in London, was written in English and gives French translations of useful phrases.

p.549
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John Palsgrave was a priest at Henry VIII's court and became tutor to Princess Mary Tudor in 1513 in England. With her marriage to Louis XII of France he accompanied her to Paris. By 1516 he had moved to Louvain. In 1525 he was appointed tutor to Henry's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy. 

2. tabret / taboret / taberett / taberet

1510 play ‘Old English instruments of music, their history and character’ by Francis W. Galpin, 1910

“Northumberland retained a taboret, a luter, and a rebec player. Similarly, Oxford retained a taboret, a luter, and a fiddle player. Katherine of Aragon's minstrels included a taboret” ‘Patrons and performance : early Tudor household revels’ by Westfall, Suzanne R 1990

1509 'The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations' by Theodor Dumitrescu · 2017

Some entertainments during the reign of Henry VIII as described by Richard Gibson, Master of the Revels, in the Revels Accounts: 1510 Accounts of Revels  pageant prepared called "the Golldyn Arber in the Archeyerd of Plesyer."  The costumes included: “For Cornish's and the minstrel's garments, for 40 "fassys" 3 yds. 46½ yards green satin for another gown for Cornish, for 3 taborets, &c” 1514 REVEL ACCOUNTS, No. 7. Christmas Day, a mumming in which the King himself took part.  Lists of costumes included: “4 blue and white damask coats and bonnets for "drumbyllslads;" [drummers of large drums, originating in Switzerland] crimson and green satin for the taborets and rebecks.” 1516 REVEL ACCOUNTS, No. 9. for  "the story of Troylous and Pandor rychly inparylled”...“To the taborets, 2 jackets of the store.” 'Revels', in ‘Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518’

1512 a taborer kept by a noble household: ‘The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy’ The 5th Earl of Northumberland's Household Book: Page 42 lists: “MYNSTRÅLLS IN HOUSHOLD . ITEM Mynstralls in Houshold iij Viz . A Taberett A Luyte and A Rebecc = iij .” Page 45 “Mynſtralls iij Viz . A Taberett a Luyte and a Rebecc .” Page 46 and 48 ALLWAYS PROVIDITT the Wagies accustommyde of my Lordes Hous that every Person belongynge to every rowme accustomed in the foresaid roull shall have by Yere after this forme followynge if they be payde by th'assignemente of the Hous ,…Every Mynstrall if he be Taberet iiij . Every Luyte and Rebecc xxxiijs . iiijd . and to be payd in Housholde if they have it nott by Patentt or Warraunt Page 343/344 (Payments made to minstrels for other household duties for the family): AL MANER OF REWARDIS Customably usede to be Yeven by my Lorde to his Lordshipis SERVAUNTS As the Consideracion WHY more playnly hereafter followith , “ITEM My Lorde usith and accustomyth to gyf yerly when his Lordschipp is at home to his Mynstraills that be daly in his Houshold as his Tabret Lute ande Rebek upon New-Yeres-Day in the mornynge when they doo play at my Lordis Chambre doure for his Lordschipe and my Lady xx

1514 taberets were employed at court by Christmas. The accounts presented by Richard Gibson, the Master of the Revels, state four minstrels, who are identified as taberets and rebecs, who were dressed in crimson and green satin.

1898 commentry on an Italian version of the book of Saint John Climacus, 6th–7th century christian monk: ‘Transactions of the Bibliographical Society’. 4. 1896/98

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