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In the REED databases, there occur 271 instances of visits by travelling waits from other localities; of these, 242 are dated after 1572. Hence I'd have to conclude that the 1572 Act had no discernible effect on the activities of this class of entertainers, as opposed to wandering minstrels...things of shreds and patches, who are the subject of prosecutions here and there. Alan Somerset