York Music

James Merryweather

Sessions Book Trust. ISBN 1 85072 034 7. Available via the internet:  http://www.sessionsofyork.co.uk/books/york_gen.html

Update available from the author - James Merryweather (jas@waits.org.uk) or downloadable from this site.

Drawn by Ingrid Johnson

21 Oct. 1584. "John Clarke & John Balderston two of the waites of this cittie did personallie appere in this court,
and were examined towching their evill and disorderlie behaviour, to the discredit of this cittie viz.
for that they have gone abroad, in the country in very evill apparel, with their hose forth at their heeles,
also for that they are common drunkerdes and cannot so cunninglie play upon their instruments as they ought to do ..."

The Illustrated London News, Dec. 19, 1896. - 853
THE RIVAL WAITS, By A. Forester.

The Illustrated London News, Dec. 28, 1901. - 1002
"WELCOME THE COMING, SPEED THE PARTING GUEST."
Drawn by F. W. Burton.

There is, philosophers declare,
A law of compensation,
Which soon or late with balance fair
Adjusts the situation;

Though parting guests the landlord's till
Have slyly circumvented,
The coming guest will find his bill
In like degree augmented.