This method of recruiting players young, then, could account for why there are apparently so many family links within the king's minstrels and trumpeters.
The commission is also part of the documentation that proves that minstrels and trumpeters stayed a long time in the king's service.
Overall, then, it seems that there were at least nine minstrels and seven trumpeters as part of the king's household during the early 1460s.
Large frugivores (trumpeters and currasows) were also absent from the censuses.
There is no instance among the paired names in which one was a minstrel and the other a trumpeter.
My observations suggest that trumpeters may subsequently disperse some of the seeds contained in these fallen figs.
We should not expect this, unless the trumpeters were to have more expensive liveries than the rest of the minstrels.
In the striped trumpeter and red drum, the increase in sensitivity was correlated with the appearance of double cones.
