History
The following waits are mentioned in: Roz Southey 'Music-making in North-East England during the eighteenth century' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), as well as many other local musicians, fiddlers, pipers etc (some of whom may have been waits).
Fairweather, John fl.1788
Hull, William fl.1724
Kell, Jasper fl.1711-33
Thomas Patterson was the Piper of Hexham circa 1665. Source: McCandless
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