One Roland le Pettour, later also called "le Fartere," was rewarded by Henry II for his service, apparently a special trick of his, of making "a leap, a whistle and a fart" (saltum, siffletum et pettum) before the king on Christmas day (John Southworth, The English Medieval Minstrel [Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989], p. 47).I don't have access to Southworth's book.
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