I. The British Bards--II. The Northern Scalds--III. The Anglo-Saxon Gleemen--IV. The Nature of their Performances--V. A Royal Player with three Darts--VI. Bravery of a Minstrel in the Conqueror's Army--VII. Other Performances by Gleemen--VIII. The Harp an Instrument of Music much used by the Saxons--IX. The Norman Minstrels, and their different Denominations and Professions--X. Troubadours--XI. Jestours--XII. Tales and Manners of the Jesters--XIII. Further Illustration of their Practices--XIV. Patronage, Privileges, and Excesses of the Minstrels--XV. A Guild of Minstrels--XVI. Abuses and Decline of Minstrelsy--XVII. Minstrels were Satirists and Flatterers--XVIII. Anecdotes of offending Minstrels, Women Minstrels--XIX. The Dress of the Minstrels--XX. The King of the Minstrels, why so called--XXI. Rewards given to Minstrels--XXII. Payments to Minstrels--XXIII. Wealth of certain Minstrels--XXIV. Minstrels were sometimes Dancing Masters 170 CHAPTER IV. I. The Joculator--II. His different Denominations and extraordinary Deceptions--III. His Performances ascribed to Magic--IV. Asiatic Jugglers--V. Remarkable Story from Froissart--VI. Tricks of the Jugglers ascribed to the Agency of the Devil; but more reasonably accounted for--VII. John Rykell, a celebrated Tregetour--VIII. Their various Performances--IX. Privileges of the Joculators at Paris.--The King's Joculator an Officer of Rank--X. The great Disrepute of modern Jugglers 197 CHAPTER V. I. Dancing, Tumbling, and Balancing, part of the Joculator's Profession--II. Performed by Women--III. Dancing connected with Tumbling--IV. Antiquity of Tumbling--much encouraged--V. Various Dances described--VI. The Gleemen's Dances--VII. Exemplification of Gleemen's Dances--VIII. The Sword Dance--IX. Rope Dancing and wonderful Performances on the Rope--X. Rope Dancing from the Battlements of St. Paul's--XI. Rope Dancing from St. Paul's Steeple--XII. Rope Dancing from All Saints' Church, Hertford--XIII. A Dutchman's Feats on St. Paul's Weathercock--XIV. Jacob Hall the Rope Dancer--XV. Modern celebrated Rope Dancing--XVI. Rope Dancing at Sadler's Wells--XVII. Fool's Dance--XVIII. Morris Dance--XIX. Egg Dance--XX. Ladder Dance--XXI. Jocular Dances--XXII. Wire Dancing--XXIII. Ballette Dances--XXIV. Leaping and Vaulting--XXV. Balancing--XXVI. Remarkable Feats--XXVII. The Posture-Master's Tricks--XXVIII. The Mountebank--XXIX. The Tinker--XXX. The Fire-Eater 207 CHAPTER VI.