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BIBLIOGRAPHY - TOWN BANDS OF EUROPE
Collated by James Merryweather of The York Waits

History of individual towns:

BEVERLEY Extracts from the Beverley Minute Books, collected by Alan Radford
KING’S LYNN Gutteridge, Christopher (1999-2000).The Waites of Lynn. Still in progress. See King's Lynn History
LEEDS Radford, Alan (1994). The Leeds Waits. from:the author at 40 Lee Lane East, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5RE. See also www.btinternet.com/~alan.radford/waithis.htm
LEICESTER Wilshere, JEO (1970). Leicester town waits. Leicester, Leicester research services.
LINCOLN Garrod, Allister (ongoing) http://www.lincolnwaites.org.uk/
LINCOLNSHIRE Stokes, James (1998). The Waits of Lincolnshire. Early Theatre. 1: 75-111.
NORWICH Janssen, Carole Ann (1978). The waytes of Norwich and renaissance civic pageantry. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick.
NORWICH Stephen, George A (1933). The waits of the city of Norwich through four centuries to 1790. Proceedings of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. vol. xxv.
NOTTINGHAM Bevan, Victoria (1991). The waits of Nottingham (1547-1702). Unpublished BA Thesis. University of Nottingham.
RICHMOND Merryweather, James W (1994). The town waits. The Richmond (Yorkshire) Review. 17: 18-21.
STAMFORD Simpson, Justin (1885) The Stamford Waits and their predecessors: an historical sketch Published in The Reliquary Vol. XXVI
YORK Cooper, Thomas Parsons ‘TPC’ (c. 1934). The waits and minstrels of the City of York from the earliest times to the year 1835. Unpublished draft of book (TPC died in 1937). In York City Library.
YORK Merryweather, James W (1988). York Music. York, 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  or downloadable from this site. Click here.
York Waits' Chains first published in York Historian - vol. 20

Technical Bibliography

This annotated list is very select. It contains only the most important books and articles that should help you with particular problems in archival work on town waits.

General Bibliography:

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