1772

“The Tabor-and-Pipe are two musical Instruments that always accompany each other ; and are mostly
used at Wakes by Country People, and at their Dancings and innocent Diversons -, and often with
Morris Dancers ; and sometimes in Concerts, if well perform'd by such as are skill'd in musick…”

‘The elements of musick display'd; or, Its grammar, or ground-work made easy: rudimental, practical, philosophical, historical
, and technical ..’ by Tans'ur, William

Record of payments to BOUGHTON, John ('John a Stunsfield') for playing the pipe and tabor:

1699 December Aynho, gave J: of ?Stonesfield for play a day in Xmas on  the taber + pipe    10-9
Northamptonshire Record Office, ML. 1306,
Cartwright Papers, Account book, October 1691 to 1722

1700 December Aynho, gave to J: of Stansfield ye taberer at Xmas        1-0-0
Cartwright Papers, Account book, October 1691 to 1722

1710 15 August Sherborne, To Jack of Stunsfield                   - 2  6 
Gloucestershire Archives, D 678/148B, Dutton family accounts,
Account book beginning 1708, f.16

1710 16 August Sherborne, To Jack of Stunsfield             - 10 –
Dutton family accounts, Account book beginning 1708

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“… they have prevail'd with the Governour to make Thomas Burton Attorney Generall,
formerly a fidler to a known pyrate or privateer…”

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 22, 1704-1705

1710. April 1,Tatler. No. 153
Addison touches lightly on faults that spoil the pleasures of social intercourse:

“I look upon myself, during the course of many years, to have resembled a tabor and pipe. I have since
very much endeavoured at the sweetness, of the lute but in spite of all my resolutions, I must confess with
great confusion, that I find myself daily degenerating into a bagpipe; whether it be the effect of my old age,
or of the company I keep, I know not.”

1723 November 1. Thomas Herbert of Eglwysilan, gentleman left in his will

“To Thomas Morgan Lewis, ' ye fidler,' the little yellow mare.”

Wills: 1719-1778 Cardiff Records: Volume 3. Originally published by Cardiff Records Committee, Cardiff, 1901.

1724, London

“Masters of various instruments flock here,
The Scottish pipe and British harp appear;
Lutes and guitars do form a beauteous line,
Whilst dulcimers with pipe and tabor join;”

‘The Session of Musicians, In Imitation of the Session of the Poets.’

1752 - died: Mr. Harwood, the celebrated Performer on the Tabor and Pipe at Covent-Garden Theatre.

Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal Wed 06 May 1752

Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, 1738 – 1822: a German-born British astronomer and composer.
Born in the Electorate of Hanover, William Herschel followed his father into the military band
of Hanover. [There is some difference of opinion as to whether he played the pipe and tabor
or the oboe in this band.] He emigrated to Great Britain in 1757 at the age of nineteen.
In addition to the oboe, he played the violin and harpsichord and later the organ. He composed
numerous musical works, including 24 symphonies and many concertos, as well as some church music.

1766 Goldsmith, 'The Vicar of Wakefield'

"Being apprized on our approach,
the whole neighborhood came out to meet their minister,
drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor:..."

1766 'Cymon' A Dramatic Romance as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The pipe and tabor were used as a simile for the romantic rural idyll.

between early 1768 and 1781
Samuel Hellier, The Wodehouse, Staffordshire, a keen musician who also purchased music and instruments
for the use of his estate and house workers, had some of his band's instruments stolen. In 1781 he wrote
"I have so very little Comfort of being down there and being so ill used, & my Things stole from me I almost
determine never to come into the Country any more". After this created a catalogue of instruments which
included:
“• Winds: 2 Flutes, 1 Flute, 2 Piccolos, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 3 Bassoons, 1 Pipe & Tabor”

Music in Country Houses of the English Midlands, 1750–1810 by Martin Perkins

Theatre Royal Drury Lane between November 1767 and December 1768 the pipe and tabor
was hired 12 times for dancing and for plays. Between November 1774 and November 1775,
they performed for 127 nights for the plays they put on in the theatre.

In a newspaper review in September 1775 readers were told:
“The music was well composed, and among other instruments were introduced the pipe and tabor”

John Randall was born 1764 in New Haven, Conn. North America, died in Australia. 
John Randall, a Negro laborer, was tried at Manchester on 14 April 1785 for stealing a watch chain on the docks at Liverpool. Sent to the Ceres hulk in 1786,aged 21 sentenced to 7 years transportation.

He was a crack shot.  He was made an official game keeper by governor Phillip and killed the first Emu seen by Europeans.  In June 1799 Randall was accused of theft of plates and glasses from the governor, but was forgiven. Randall was about 6 feet and well built. He played the flute and tambour.

1787 Charles Dibdin Senior 'A Social History of the Fool' by Billington, Sandra

1793Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852