All fencers, bearwards, common players in interludes and minstrels, not belonging to any baron of the realm or towards any other honourable personage of greater degree … which … shall wander abroad and have not license of two justices of the peace … shall be judged rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars.

--Vagrancy in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England

• St. Cecilia II Concert

• Rhyming Dictionary
• Thesaurus
• Google Translation
• English to Latin Translator
• IBards
• Renaissance Music Bibliography
• Foxit Reader is a small, fast program to view PDF files.

• The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry
• Troubadour Manuscripts
• Chansons de trouvères Université d'Ottawa, Faculté des Arts
• Recueil des poésies des troubadours, 1201-1300 (Gallicia Biblioteque Numerique)
• 16th Century Poets and Renaissance Poetry
• Study Guide for Medieval Love Songs

• The Music of Thomas Ravenscroft
• Free PDF Download Of Ravenscroft's Melismata (Phansies fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey humours)
• More free Ravenscroft secular sheet music
• Music Selections from Thomas Deloney (1543-1600)
• Facsimile of Thomas Deloney book
• Pre 1600 Song lyrics
• 16th Century Broadside Ballads
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, a project to digitize the 30,000 extant ballads

• ChoralWiki
• Early Music Chicago
• FreeScores.com Renaissance
• Petrucci Music Library
  • Petrucci Music Library Mediaeval Page
  • Petrucci Music Library Renaissance Page
• Troubadour lyrics
• Cantigas de Santa Maria
• Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers
• The Internet Renaissance Band (MIDI Files for the tunes + some Lyrics)
  • Mediaeval Music
  • Renaissance Music
  • Mediaeval Carols
• Middle English Texts (Many with mp3)
• Mediaeval and Renaissance Love Song Study Guides

• SCA Minstrel Homepage
• Rhiannon of Wye, Septentrian Harper for the reign of Aedan and Caffa [http://backup.lweb.net/musicdownload/Rhiannon/FinaleRhiannon.zip Sheet Music in Finale .MUS format]
• The Bards of Ealdormere
• Cry of the Wolf
  • Cry of the Wolf 1, Popular Songs PDF File
  • Cry of the Wolf 2, Memorial PDF File
  • Cry of the Wolf 3, Poetry PDF File
  • Cry of the Wolf 4, Our Stories PDF File
  • Cry of the Wolf 5, (Uncle J's top 10) or PDF Version PDF File
• Cariadoc's Virtual Bardic Circle
• Lord Gyric of Otershaghe's Bawdy Song Book

May not be pre-17th century, but fun or interesting to sing

• Anderer Länder Folksongs of various Countries
• SWIL Filk Songs
• Bawdy Songs
• The Robert ap Huw manuscript (B. M. Addl. MS 14905)