1515 entertainerts, marginal illustration, manuscript

1532 stained glass angel
Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire

1517 Lyons (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes): a legal case appearing before the court of the seneschal suggests that
pipe and tabor players formed a distinct class among minstrels, as
"Molhet and certain others among their associates, they who called themselves sworn masters of the art of the tabor players
and minstrels of the city... wanted to force the new tabor players and instrument makers to become masters, to create
masterpieces and to pay for certain banquets and money..."

Molhet, taborin player, has been identified in accounts since 1507 and was buried in Saint Paul in 1524.

‘The musical sounds of medieval French cities : players, patrons, and politics’ by Peters, Gretchen, 2012

1537 Paris
" James Basset was studying in Paris and was taught to dance by a taberet:
Item, paid to Monsieur Simon, a tabourin , who taught him to dance for the second time
for the space of ij months. iij t s v j

‘Musical Instruments at the Court of Henry VIII’ by Palmer, Frances Lisle Letters IV, p 517

1548 Lyons; entry of Henry I and Queen Catherine de Medici. The city went to great lengths and acquired considerable
debt to impress the royal party with its loyalty and support…. Among the instrumentalists were pipe and tabor players,
some of whom were from Montbrison (Loire)

‘The musical sounds of medieval French cities : players, patrons, and politics’ by Peters, Gretchen, 2012