Each month, we will post an amusing, interesting, or noteworthy entry drawn from the growing REED-NE evidence.<\/p>\n
This month\u2019s \u2018flower\u2019: \u2018Modyr Nakett\u2019<\/p>\n
In the Durham Priory Bursar\u2019s annual account running from 11th November for 1433-1434, a number of payments are recorded as having been made to various entertainers, including an entry for 4 pence given to a certain male minstrel (\u2018vni ministrallo\u2019) with the rather peculiar name of \u2018Mother Naked\u2019 (\u2018Modyr Nakett\u2019)! Mother Naked may be related to the so-called \u2018Betty\u2019 (the Man-Woman figure in the folk plays who typically claims to be the mother of the other characters), but here she seems to have been played by a solo performer. There is at least a possibility that the performance was obscene, since the payment is the smallest fee paid to any minstrel in the whole run of the Durham Bursars\u2019 Accounts. [Durham University Library, Durham Priory Bursar\u2019s Account, memb. 4d].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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