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 Hijiory of Domeftic Manners (No. 130), from MS. Reg. 2 B. vii. fol. 83, of early fourteenth century date : they are playing on the pipe and horn. But, belides thefe inftru- No. 130. A Group of Shepherds. No. 131. A Bagpiper. ments, the bagpipe was alfo a ruftic inftrument : there is a lliepherd playing upon one on folio 112 of the fame MS. (given in our cut No. 131) : and again, in the early fourteenth century MS. Reg. 2 B. vi., on the reverfe of folio 8, is a group of fhepherds, one of whom plays a fmall pipe, and another the bagpipes. Chaucer (in the " Houfe of Fame") mentions — Pipes made of grene corne, As han thife lytel herde gromes. That kepen beft'is in the bromes. It is curious to find that even at fo late a period as the reign of queen Mary, they ftiil officiated at weddings and other merrymakings in their villages, fometimes excited the jealoufy of the profefTors of the joyous fcience, as we have feen in the early French poem againft the taborers. I give next (cut No. 132) a reprefentation of a female minftrel playing the tambourine ; it is alfo taken from a MS. of the fourteenth century (MS. Reg. 2 B. vii. fol. 182). The earlieft inftance yet met with of the modern- fliaped drum is contained in the Coronation Book of Richard II., prefervcd in the Chapter-houfe, Weftminller, and is repre- fented