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BONVYSE, Anthony. Not strictly a musician at all, but he was a Londoner, and it is interesting to note that when, on 25. ix. 1549 he ‘without licence from the King craftily and rebelliously took flight with all his family and went to parts beyong the seas', he left behind him, among his inventoried possessions, ‘2 pairs of old vyrgynalles’ (FLI).Google Scholar

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BROMSDEN (BROMFLET, BROMSLET, BROMFFELD, BROMFELDE, BROMFETTE) Owen. Clerk of St Dunstan-in-the-West, 1516/17–1535/36, when he apparently died, for in that year the accounts have an entry: ‘Item pd. to Bromfettes wyfe for her husbondes buriall xxs'. The spelling of his surname is unusually varied and only a selection is given here. His Welsh name was probably difficult for Englishmen to pronounce correctly (CA9). He became a lay member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1500 (GPC).Google Scholar

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BROWN (BROUNE), Thomas. Shoemaker and organ-maker. He repaired organs in London, Canterbury and Henley. Details of his life and of an important law-suit, the records of which include a detailed inventory of an organ-builder's workshop, may be found in SOR. In addition may be mentioned a payment of 26s. 8d. to Brown by the churchwardens of All Hallows Staining for 26s. 8d. repairs to the organ (CA3).Google Scholar

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BYRDE, John. Clerk of the Chapel of St Thomas, London Bridge, 1525. The following year he is mentioned as William Byrde, but there was some confusion of Christian names that year and it is doubtless the same person (CA31). Others of the same name about the same period were a Bishop of Bangor and various members of the Fraternity of St Nicholas (lay, 1502, 1509, 1512; priest, 1514) (GPC). Probably related to the composer William Byrd (1543–1623).Google Scholar

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CLAVER, Robert. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1476 (GPC). Clerk (and probably organist) of St Mary-at-Hill, 1512/13. Before Claver's engagement there had been nobody to play the organ, and it is reasonable to assume that he held this post as well (CA19).Google Scholar

CLERK, . This is a difficult surname since it sometimes seems to indicate nothing more than ‘John the clerk’ or ‘Robert the clerk'. The following biographies cannot therefore be regarded as always referring to single persons.Google Scholar

CLERK, John. Clerk, St Martin Outwich, 1508–1515 (CA17). Conduct, St Andrew Hubbard 1525/26 (CA5/2). Conduct, St Botolph, Aldersgate, 1555/58 (CA7, Rolls 61–63). A chantry priest of St Peter's Westminster (Westminster Abbey) of the same name, was executor of John Surdevall, priest of St Paul's Cathedral who died in 1522 (PCC, 28 Maynwaryng). Between this date and 1529 he was involved in legal trouble over his executorship when a clerk Thomas Harwood sued him for money and clothing alleged to have been entrusted with Surdevall (ECP, 519/6).Google Scholar

CLERK, Richard. Clerk, St Thomas's Chapel, London Bridge, 1532/35 (CA31, Vol. 6). Conduct, St Margaret, Bridge Street, 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

CLERKE, Robert. Paid 1s. 4d. by the churchwardens of St Michael Cornhill in 1474 ‘for prekyng of a messe’ (CA24, p. 55).Google Scholar

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CLYDROWE, . Sang in St Michael's, Cornhill, ‘by all Cristemas haledais’ 1472 (CA24, page 48).Google Scholar

COBBE, Thomas. Priest. Sold a pair of organs to the wardens of All Hallows, London Wall, c. 1512. He received the old organs and ‘v marke of money’ for them (CA1, p. 56). Priest, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1505 (GPC).Google Scholar

COLMAN, William. Chorister of the Chapel Royal 1509 (LP1/20). Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1520, 1524, 1526 (HCR). Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1521 (GPC). Colman, John Tyll, and John Giles were three Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal who sang at St Mary-at-Hill, 1524/25 (CA19). Colman came again in 1527/28.Google Scholar

COKE, (COOKE, KOK, COK etc.), John. A very common name at this period. Clerk of St Olave, Silver Street, in 1501 when he was Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas (GPC), and the probable composer of Mass, Venit Dilectus (YM). The Bede Roll records his death in 1507. Possibly to be identified with the clerk of St Anthony's Hospital in 1495 and 1501 (WR, xv. 37. 8, and WR, 37. 25). There was a chantry priest of the same name at St Dunstan-in-the-East in 1495 (CA8) and there were also skinners and a tailor of the same name living about the same time (as well as priests of Lincoln and Chichester). A ‘John Cok’ was at St Bartholomew's hospital, temp. Henry VI and Edward IV and wrote ‘Cok's Cartulary’ which is among the archives there.Google Scholar

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COLSON, Robert. Clerk, possibly professional music copyist. Described as ‘Songpricker’ in the Household Accounts of Edward VI, 1547–49 (WES, p. 299). Edward paid him a salary of £4 a year. Among the payments made to him by the wardens of St Benet Gracechurch Street are items ‘for prycking of Certeyne songes’ for 15s.8d. in 1548; ‘for ye pricking of certeyne songes into the grete song bookes’ for 9s. 6d. in 1549; and ‘for prycking of certeyne songes in to the ffowre bookes’ for 12s. 4d. in 1550 (though the latter entry is made in favour of Thomas Colson - no doubt a scribe's error). The sums he was paid by St Benet's were remarkably large (CA6).Google Scholar

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DOBLE, Gabriel. Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1495, when he was clerk of St Michael's Cornhill (GPC). The Bede Roll records the death of his wife Margaret in 1514, and his own death in 1518. No doubt he is the ‘Gabriell the Clerk of Saint Mighells’ who was paid 9s. 4d. by the wardens of the Drapers’ Company in 1481/2 ‘for the kepyng of our lady masse atte Drapers ffest and for the dirige & masse kept the same tyme’ (JDC, I p. 356). The Drapers’ Hall was close to Cornhill, in Throgmorton Street and there was a strong link between church and Company. Doble is not mentioned in the wardens’ accounts of St Michael's, but there are some lamentable gaps in these records at about the time of his clerkship.Google Scholar

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EVE, Thomas. As a choirmaster he provided child actors and a child organist for the Midsummer show provided by the Skinners’ Company in 1535/6 (LSK). Conduct and choirmaster, St Mary Woolnoth, 1539/40 (CA21). There was a schoolmaster of the same name at Chelmsford attached to the Morrow Mass or Corpus Christi gild in 1547 (LSR). He is described as of 40 years or more and ‘literate and of good usage'. A ‘Thomas Eve off the livery’ is mentioned in the accounts of the London Tallowchandlers, 1534/35 (MTC, vol. II, p. 277). This volume, a copy of which is in the Guildhall library was printed but never published.Google Scholar

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FARMER, William. Conduct, St Michael Cornhill, 1554 (CA23).Google Scholar

FAWCONER, Richard. Lay member, 1517; clerk, 1521 of the Fraternity of St Nicholas (GPC). Conduct of Whittington College, 1547 (ROC). He may have been related to the earlier musician who composed music preserved in the Eton manuscript. The king's master gunner, who died in 1521, had the same name. His will is PCC 14 Maynwaryng.Google Scholar

FAYRFAX, Robert. Distinguished composer and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (see Grove). Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1502 (GPC).Google Scholar

FFERYS, Benjamin. Clerk, London Bridge, chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, 1535/39 (CA31).Google Scholar

FFERYS, John. Clerk, chapel on London Bridge, 1513–41. Possibly the father of Benjamin Fferys (CA31).Google Scholar

FITZJOHN, Thomas. An inventory of the goods of St Stephen, Coleman Street opens with the words, ‘This book, written by Thomas FitzJohn, sometime clerk of this parish, in the month of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand four hundred and sixty-six’ (FSC). The inventory mentions no specific pricksong books or an organ. The wardens’ accounts of St Stephen's open in 1486; Fitzjohn is only mentioned in 1495/6 when he receives 6d. for frontals; but the clerk is not always named (CA28). It is probably his son who was a clerk in the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1515 (GPC). He was clerk of All Hallows Staining, 1525–27 (CA3/1), and bought ‘all the lynone banor clothes that covered theyeddolles [–idols, images] in lente’ from the churchwardens of St John Zachary for 2s., C. 1549 (WLC, p. 310). A ‘Thomas Ffyion’ is among the list of dead clerks of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1501.Google Scholar

FOOTEHEDDE, (FFOTEHED, FFOTEDDE etc.), John. Conduct, Barking chapel, 1547 (ROC). He is mentioned as clerk of St Botolph, Aldersgate in the accounts of 1555–58, with the small salary of 6s.8d. p.a. (though there was probably a separate account book for the full clerks ‘wages)(CA7, rolls 61–63). He was certainly clerk of this church earlier than this, though the clerk is not actually named in the accounts, for in 1551 he bought ‘one vestment blew’ for 5s. from the wardens of St Botolph's (WLC, p. 202).Google Scholar

FORTESCEWE, , Master. A payment in the accounts of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1545, runs: ‘Item payd to Mayster fortescewe for the organys Summa vjli.xiijs. iiijd.’ He may have been an organ builder, but is much more likely to have been the middleman (CA14).Google Scholar

FFOSTER (FOSTER), Henry (Harry, ‘the goodman'). Conduct, Barking Chapel, 1547 (ROC). Singing-man, St Peter, West Cheap, 1557–61 (CA25).Google Scholar

FFOSTER, Richard. Clerk, St Andrew Hubbard, 1506/07 (CA5).Google Scholar

FFOSTER, Thomas. Lay member, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1514 and again in 1518 (GPC). Conduct, St Margaret Pattens, 1524/25 (CA12).Google Scholar

FFOX, Robert (or Richard). Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1537–40 (CA19).Google Scholar

FRANKELYNG, John. Conduct, St Michael Crooked Lane, 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

FREMAN, Thomas. Brother of the Gild of the Assumption attached to the Skinners’ Company (1516) (GSK). Skinner in Walbrook, rent-payer to the church of St Stephen's there, 1521 (CA29/1). Master of the Mercers’ chapel school, 1542–49. This school had been incorporated with the school of St Thomas of Aeon, twenty years earlier and provided for the training of choristers. Freman was appointed High Master of St Paul's School (Colet's school, not the Cathedral school) in 1549, but in 1559 he was removed from office for ‘insufficency of learning’ (MPS).Google Scholar

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GELL, Edmond. ‘Senghengman', All Hallows Staining, for ¾ of 1553 (CA3/2).Google Scholar

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GLOUCESTER (CLOUCETER, GLOCETUR∗), Michael. London organ-maker. Built an organ for St Michael Cornhill in 1475 and repaired the organ of St Mary-at-Hill in 1477/9 (CA18 and CA23). He was probably identioal with the Michael of Gloucester who repaired the organs of Wells Cathedral 1449/50; and he may have been the son of John of Gloucester who built an organ at Wells in 1414 (COW). He paid rent for a house belonging to St Mary-at-Hill, 1483–87 (CA19).Google Scholar

∗GLOCETIR in CA19 should read GLOCETUR.Google Scholar

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GOLDE, Thomas. Parish clerk of St Margaret Moses and Master of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas, 1489 (GPC). Organ-player All Hallows Staining, 1511 (CA3/1). Dead clerk, 1517 (GPC)Google Scholar

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GORRAM, John. In 1462 the household accounts of John, Duke of Norfolk (15 February) have a payment of 14s. 4d. ‘to John Goram, Maister of the Children of seint Anthony, for a song booke and iiij antemys’ (CNS, p. 161). The Duke was in London at this time and St Anthony's is almost certainly St Anthony's Hospital. Goram (Goreham) is mentioned in the records of St Anthony's 1495–1502 (WR. xv. 37. 8; 23; 25), but he was not Master of the Choristers and his position is not stated.Google Scholar

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GRIFFITH, Richard. Clerk of Barking Chapel, Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1515 (GPC). Clerk of St Margaret Pattens, 1516–20. The annual payment of his salary was designated to him ‘and to his company keping of the Salve before the Rode for a yere’ or to him and James Howe ‘for kepyng of the Salve before the Roode w^t their children'. In his last year here, the scribed writes his name ‘Gressen’ (CA12). He assisted at St Mary-at-Hill in 1522/23 when he was paid 1s. 8d. ‘for a Reward for him and his children’ (CA19).Google Scholar

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HACKET, John. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1539/40 (CA19). There is a four-voice setting of Kyrie by ‘Hake’ or ‘Hacke’ in BM1 which is probably the work of John Hake who was a clerk of St George's Windsor in 1547 (FAI, p. 173) and who was master of the choristers there in 1541/2 (FOW), and who may also be identified with Hacket. Hake is mentioned in letters from Lawrence Starkey to Lord Darcy in 1523 (LP 3, 2954 & 3187); Hake was a kinsman of Starkey's and offered his services as a singing-man to Darcy through Starkey. Whether or not he was ever engaged is not recorded.Google Scholar

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HAMOND, Thomas. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1547/8 (CA19). Probably the same as William HAMOUNDE, below.Google Scholar

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HARRYSON, John. Clerk of All Hallows Staining, c. 1500–10 (CA3/1). Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1507 (GPC). A man of the same name (probably his son) was clerk of All Hallows Staining, 1551. He is again named as sexton in 1556 (CA3/2). It was probably this man who was described as ‘of the Citie of London singingman’ and named sole executor in the will of John Richarde, a vicar of ‘the cathedrall churche Saint Peter, Westminster’ which was proved in May, 1550 (PCC 14 Coode). A John Harryson was buried at St. Martin-in-the-Fields during the plague years of 1557/8 (CA14). A John Harryson was chantry priest of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1534 (VE).Google Scholar

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HAYWARDE, John. Clerk. St Thomas’ London Bridge, 1513–28 (CA31, vols. 5 & 6). Succentor of St Paul's Cathedral, 1534. Perhaps he may be identified with the buyer of ‘Crosse Stones’ from St Katherine Cree, 25 December 1547 (WLC).Google Scholar

HEATH (HEITHE, HETHE,) Lawrence, (Lancelot). Conduct, St Benet Gracechurch Street, 1549–51. In the accounts of 1554/55 ‘Lawncelot Hethe’ is described as ‘citezen and payntersteynor of London’ and is paid for doing work appropriate to this trade (CA6). In 1554/5, ‘Hethe the singing man’ was paid 7s. by the wardens of St Mary-at-Hill ‘for xxj dayes servis’ and may have been the same man (CA 19). Lawrence Heath was clerk of St Michael Cornhill in 1555 where he remained until 1590 (CA23).Google Scholar

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HICKMAN (HYCKMAN, HICMAN), Thomas. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas 1508 (GPC). Said to have been Redford's predecessor as master of the choristers of St. Paul's, died 1534 (RTD). A priest of this name appears in the Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1518 (GPC).Google Scholar

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HOBBYS, John. Clerk, St Mary Woolnoth, 1539–41 (CA21). He may have been the Hobbes who is mentioned in the accounts of St Mary-at-Hill, 1556/7. The entry runs ‘Payed to sir Iohn parkyns, a base, for helpe the quere when hobbes was dead…’ (CA19).Google Scholar

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HOLE, Richard. Conduct, St Margaret Pattens, 1512/13 (CA12). May possibly be identified with the interluder, 1526–30 (CES, vol.2, p. 295). Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1513 (GPC).Google Scholar

HOLLAND, William. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas; sang at the funeral of Sir Thomas Lovell, 1524 (CPC, p. 148). In 1549 he was living in a cottage in Bishopsgate attached to the Parish Clerks’ Hall (CPC, p. 95).Google Scholar

HOLME, Robert. Clerk, Fraternity of St. Nicholas, 1469, dead 1504 (GPC). The accounts of St Stephen, Coleman Street have an entry in 1494/5: ‘Item to Robert holme for syngers upon ye church halyday iiijs; It seems likely that he was a London choirmaster, though it is not known where (CA28). He was the composer of an optional additional bass part for the Gloria of a Mass, which is preserved in a Lambeth fragment. Another Robert Holme was a stipendiary of Mettyngham College in 1515/16 (BM.add.MS. 339, 89, f. 143').Google Scholar

HOLT, Stephen. Sexton, St Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, 1518–1528 (CA20). Clerk, St Dunstan-in-the-West, 1534–42 (CA9). Lay member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1515. (GPC).Google Scholar

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HORWOOD, William. Clerk, Fraternity of St. Nicholas, 1459; entered in the Bede Roll again in 1463; Master of the Fraternity, 1464 (GPC). Master of the choristers of Lincoln Cathedral, 1477–89 (MLV). Composer of four pieces in the Eton manuscript, and of a Kyrie O rex clemens which survives in the fragmentary form in YM. A ‘Horwods Gaude’ is mentioned in the inventory of pricksong books belonging to King's College, Cambridge in 1529 (KCP).Google Scholar

HOWE, John, father and son; London 15th/16th century organ builders. A long essay could be written about the achievements of these two men. Suffice it here to mention their main achievements. When they began work (the earliest records concern the organ of York Mnster in 1485), organ building seems to have been, almost always, a part-time job. By the time the younger Howe died, in 1571, a full-time professional practice had been built up: it was certainly the most extensive in England at the time; probably of all time. It seems probable that they carried out work on all the organs (some churches had two or mere) in all the hundred-odd City of London churches at some time or other but their practice extended also to Westminster, Wandsworth, Eton and Bletchingley; and further afield to York, Sheffield and Coventry. In London, they built new organs at St Martin Outwich (1513/4: CA17), St Dunstan-in-the-West (c. 1534: CA9) and All Hallows Staining (1545: CA3/1); and doubtless a great many others. They established a regular maintenance service for organs; most London churches paid them an annual fee of 2s. per organ for regular tuning and minor repairs. Their premises were in Walbrook at the ‘Sign of the Organ Pype'. The elder Howe died in 1519 (GPC); his son, who in old age was known endearingly as ‘Father’ Howe, in 1571. Further details may be found in SOR and MGG but the full story has yet to be written.Google Scholar

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JOHNSON, Robert. Player who took the part of Tracy in a pageant of St. Thomas a Becket arranged by the Skinners in 1518/19 (LSK). Clerk, St Thomas’ Chapel London Bridge, 1528–30 (CA31/6). This name was common in the sixteenth century and it is difficult to distinguish between the various men: there was, of course, a notable composer of this name at the time, though he probably had no connection with London (see Grove and MGG); and there were many secular Robert Johnsons - including a royal mole-catcher. (See Grove and MGG)Google Scholar

JONES, Richard. Schoolmaster of St Paul's School; legatee of his cousin Richard Pygott, 1549 (PCC 42 Populwell), who refers to him as ‘my cosyn Johns scole Master of the gramer scole in Powles'. Jones, who was a friend and correspondent of Andrew Ammonius, the King's Latin secretary, himself died in 1549, apparently of the plague, for he says of himself that there was then ‘a phwer quartyn then Reynyng in his bodye’ (PCC 43 Populwell). Jones may have been the ‘Scolle Mr of Polles’ who, in 1548, was paid 5s. by the churchwardens of St Michael Cornhill ‘for wrytyng of the masse in English & ye Benedicites’ (CA24).Google Scholar

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LORYMER, Symond. Various payments to him in the accounts of St Stephen, Coleman Street indicate he was a musician. A payment in 1494/95 of £ 1 is ‘for his labour this yere'. Another payment in 1500 runs ‘Item paid to Lorymer of Poules for hym and his company for the Masse on the Invencion day of Seint Stephens iijs iiij^d & for brede and ale spent in the chirche the same day, ijd ob, iijs vjd ob'. This seems to indicate that he had now become a vicar choral or even master of the choristers of St Paul's (CA28). There was a scrivener of the same name in London in 1474 who may have been a musician as well. A facsimile of his handwriting may be found in Hilary Jenkinson's Later Court hands.Google Scholar

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MARLOWE, John. Parish clerk of, and - with his wife Agnes - member of the parish gild of, St Botolph Aldersgate, 1499 (BM.add. MS. 37664, the book of the gild). He was clerk of the same church, 1511–13 (CA7, rolls 31–33), but there were other clerks during the intervening period. Parish clerk, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1538–40 (CA14). A London wait in 1502 (CCM) and (though he is not named as wait on this occasion) c. 1530 (ECP 656/1) may possibly have been his father. He was a member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1499 (GPC). There was an abbot of Bermondsey (+1519) of this name.Google Scholar

MARTYN, John. A regrettably common name during this period.Google Scholar

1) Clerk, Fraternity of St. Nicholas, 1487, dead clerk 1501 (GPC). Gentleman of the Chapel Royal; left a bequest to his church, St Peter West Cheap, in his will, dated 1500, proved the following year (PCC 7 Blamyr) so presumably he resided in the City.Google Scholar

2) Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1511 (GPC). Gentleman of Wolsey's Chapel, 1521 (BM4, f. 24). Conduct, St Sepulchre, 1547 (ROC). In the accounts of that church he is described as sexton, 1347–52 (CA27).Google Scholar

There was also a conduct of this name at St Dunstan-in-the-East, 1500–04. He is paid ‘for kepyng of our lady masse and techyng children and to kep the quere every sonday and every dobill ffest in the yere as well thei that be no halidays as holy days’ (CA8). A ‘John Marton’ was boy bishop of York in 1526 (Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal XII, 400); and a John Martyn was sub-sacrist of St. Stephen's Westminster, mentioned in the will of Henry Sharp, dean of St Stephen's, 1489 (PCC 19 Milles).Google Scholar

MARTIN (MARTEN, MARTON), Thomas. Parish clerk of St Mary-at-Hill, 1547 (ROC). He is mentioned in this capacity in the accounts of the church, 1547/8, but the following year he was replaced by William Mundy (CA19).Google Scholar

MASON, Peter. Conduct, St Michael Cornhill for a quarter of the year 1550/51 (CA23).Google Scholar

MANFFELD (MAWUDEFFEILD), Thomas. Clerk, St Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, 1522–28 (CA20). See also MAWUDFELDE.Google Scholar

MATEWS, Edmond. Assisted the choir of St Andrew Hubbard for 1s. on St Andrew's Day, 1532/33 (CA5/33).Google Scholar

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MATRAVERS (MATREVERSE, MATERVERSE), Richard. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1514 (GPC). Parish clerk, St Margaret Pattens, 1518–21, where he was also paid ‘for oure lady Messe & antemns'. (CA12).Google Scholar

MATRYVERS, Edmund. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1529–32 (CA19). The accounts for 1550/31 also include a payment of 6d. ‘for papur to Edmond and for pryckyng the'reof'.Google Scholar

MARPERLEY, William. Conduct, St Magnus, 154 (ROC). No doubt he is to be indentified with the William MAUPERLEY who was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, temp. Edward VI (HCR).Google Scholar

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MAY, Thomas. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1549/50 (CA19).Google Scholar

MAY, Richard. Singing-man who assisted the choir of St Dunstan-in-the-East in 1500/01 (CA8). Clerk_eD Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1514 (GPC).Google Scholar

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MAYHEW, John. Clothworker; cceduct, St Benet Grace church Street, 1548–52. Over and above his ordinary-wages he was paid extra ‘bycause he shoulde bside the holydayes also come on the wedynsdayes and frydayes to syng the suffrages in the mornyng’ (CA6).Google Scholar

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MICHELSON, John. Clerk, London Bridge, St Thomas’ Chapel (1528–38). (CA31/VII).Google Scholar

METYNGHAM, (Matthew). Organ-player, St. Margaret's Westminster, 1478/80 (CA13). The will of ‘Mathew erinest alias metyngham’ of the parish of ‘Allhalowen berkyng beside the towre hille of London’ is among the accounts of St Dunstan-in-the-East for 1503/4, and may refer to the same man though there is no reference in it to confirm this (CA8).Google Scholar

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MORECOCKE, Robert. Conduct and choirmaster, St Mary Woolnoth, 1542–45 (CA21). Teaement holder of St Martin Outwich, 1545 (CA17). Conduct, St Michnel Cornhill, 1547, acting in place of a chantry priest in John Langethorne chantry. Conduct at the same church, 1547–9; he was paying rent for ‘a chamber’ to the church in 1551/52 (CA23). Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, temp. Edward VI; clerk of the cheque, 1561; died 1582 (HCR). A 3-voice Gloria laus by Morecocke is preserved in HM5.Google Scholar

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MUNDY, William. Chorister, Westminster Abbey, 1542/3 (PWA), probably son of Thomas Mundy. Conduct, St. Martin Vintry, 1547 (ROC). Parish clerk, St Mary-at-Hill, 1548–58. Among the entries concerning him, one of 2s. on May 12 1557 – ‘for his charges to Rochester to hier a conducte, a base, for our churche’ – shows that he was responsible for running the music at the church. He was sworn a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1563/64 and died c. 1591. He was a prolific composer and father of the composer John Mundy; for further details see Grove.Google Scholar

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NORTHFOLKE, John. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1523/4–29/30. He is mentioned frequently in the accounts of the church during this period when he was evidently the leading musician. He inaugurated a regular choir-school; in 1523/4 arrangements were made to ‘clene a chambre in the Abbottes yn for to be a skole howse for Northfolkes children and for havyng away of Strawe and Rubbush owte of that howse'; and the same year, ‘Northfolke and his company & the children’ were granted ‘a playng weke to make mery'. He was probably the organist, and at least he had ideas about organ-building, for there is a payment of 2s. in 1524/5 ‘to the orgon maker for mendyng the orgons Accordyng to the mynde of Mr Northfolke and at his devyse'. He was also a music copyist and in 1529/ 30 provided pricksong books ‘of the whiche v of them be with Antemys and v with Massis’ (CA19). He may have been the son of William NORFOLKE.Google Scholar

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PASSHE (PASCHE & c.), William. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas 1513. The enrolment of his wife Embryth is not entered, but her death is recorded in 1517 (GPC): Evidently both of them were Welsh: He was clerk of St Peter West Cheap for a short period the accounts of that church have two references to him. In 1527 there is a payment of 10s. to ‘Master Passhe apon lamas daye for hys dyner and the syngers at the Egyll’ – the Eagle may have been the tavern of that name in Leadenhall. The following year there is a payment of £5, 5s. ‘to Passhe the clerke for hys wages for iij quarters, that is to saye from Myghellmas onto mydsomer next, after vij^li the yere’ (CA25). He is no doubt identical with the ‘Mr Passhe of london', who in 1514/15 was paid 1s. 8d. for ‘oversyght of ye orgens’ of Kingston-on-Thames parish church. In 1536/7 the churchwardens paid him a further 4d. ‘in Ernest', probably for his continued care of the organs (CAK). A number of compositions by Passhe survive (see Grove).Google Scholar

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SAVERNAKE, John. Minstrel who lived in London close to Philip van WYLDER. He was a Frenchman: in 1518 wages of 1s. 4d. a day were paid to ‘John Saverneac of France, the King's minstrel’ to play the rebeck. His name appears in various forms until 1558 (WES, p. 297). The will of van Wylder makes it clear that he is to be identified with Pety John Cokeren who has hitherto been regarded as a different minstrel. The two names of Pety John and John Savernake appear frequently in the royal accounts.Google Scholar

SAWNDER, Hugh. Clerk, St Peter, West Cheap, 1528/9 (CA25).Google Scholar

SAYE, Robert. Conduct, St Magnus, 1547 (ROC). In an inquisition post mortem of 1555, ‘Robert Saye, citizen and clerk of London’ is mentioned as living in St Mary Hill Lane. (FLI).Google Scholar

SAYER, Nicholas. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1513 (GPC).Google Scholar

Clerk and organ-player, St Botolph Aldersgate, l519–23(CA7, Rolls 39–42). Clerk of the Skinners’ Company, 1533/34 (GSK).Google Scholar

SCAMPYON, John. Conduct, St Michael Cornhill, 1547 (ROC). He is not mentioned in the accounts of the church, but these only resume in 1547/8 after a long gap.Google Scholar

SCARLETTE, Robert. Secular member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1469 (GPC). Organ-player, St Dunstan-in-the-East, 1495/6 – 1498/9 (CA8).Google Scholar

SELERS, John. Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1487; master again in 1496 when he was clerk of St Dunstan-in-the-West (GPC). A payment in the accounts of St Dunstan-in-the-East, 1500/01, seems to indicate that he was in some way connected with that church also; it runs, 'paide to John Selers for his childern and a man from midsomer til michelmas xl^siij^d'. His death is recorded in the Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1503.Google Scholar

SETTYLL, William. Organ-maker of London. Named as one of the defendants in a chancery case concerning the price of ale which proved unmerchantable between 1533 and 1538 (ECP, 824/36).Google Scholar

SEWELL, William. Clerk, St Clement Eastcheap and Master, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1505 (GPC).Google Scholar

SHARPE, John. Conduct, St Margaret Pattens, 1511/12 (CA12).Google Scholar

SHARPULLES, James. Conduct, 1535–38, St Mary-at-Hill, (CA19). The James Sharpwith named in the accounts, 1537/38 is doubtless the same man. Conduct, St Martin Orgar, 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

SHAXTON, John. Clerk, St Mary-at-Hill 1536/7 (CA19).Google Scholar

SHERMAN, Thomas. Mus. Bac. (Oxon), 1508/9 (WDM). Apparently sang at St Andrew Hubbard 1521/22 (CA5/1). Parishioner of St Katherine Cree, 1547, consenting to the sale of the church plate (WLC).Google Scholar

SCHORT, James. Organ-player, St Andrew Hubbard, 1527/28 (CA5/2).Google Scholar

SIBILIS, William. Clerk, St Stephen Walbrook, Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1488 (GPC).Google Scholar

SIDBOROUGH (SUDBOROW), John. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1503–1520 (HCR). Probably lived in the parish or St Mary-at-Hill, for it was he who provided dinner for visiting Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal (such as John Kyte and Henry Prentes) in 1509–11 and he also assisted at the selection of a new clerk for the church in 1512/13 (CA19). His death is recorded in the Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1520 (GPC)Google Scholar

SKREWYNE, John. Parish clerk of All Hallows Staining from 1559 (CA3/2)Google Scholar

SKYNNER, John. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1537/38 (CA19).Google Scholar

SMYTH, John. A name of such frequent recurrence that it is impossible to decide how many different men are involved in the entries given below:Google Scholar

Organ-player, St Andrew Hubbard, 1507/8 (CA3/1). Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1509 (LP 1/20), though hot in 1511 (LP I/707). Organbuilder, repaired the bellows of organs at St Peter, West Cheap, 1524 (CA25). Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1514 (GPC) Gentleman of the Chapel Royal temp. Edward VI (HCR). Interluder c.1547–80 (CES). Canon of St Paul's (alias HARRYS), died 1540; his will is PCC 19 Alenger. Peti-canon of Westminster, died 1554; his will is PCC 2 More.Google Scholar

SMYTH, Henry. Clerk, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1559 (CA14).Google Scholar

SMYTH, Peter. Singing-man in the Drapers'Midsummer Show, 1522 (RDR).Google Scholar

SMYTH, Thomas. 1) Organ builder. Installed a pair of portatives in St Thomas's Chapei London Bridge for £ 2 16s. 8d. in 1514/15, and carried out repairs there in 1523/24 (CA31). Repaired great and small organs of St Margaret's Westminster for 16s. in 1514/15 (CA2) Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas and clerk of St Andrew Undershaft, 1490 (GPC). Clerk, St Botolph Aldersgate, 1511/12 – 1515/16 (CA7, rolls, 32–35). Dead clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1514 (GPC).Google Scholar

SMITH, Reynold. Conduct, St James Garlickhythe, 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

SMYTH, William. Clerk, Fraternity of St Nicholas, 1516 (GPC). Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill 1523/24 (CA19). Conduct and Lady Mass singer, 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

SPREVER, John. Conduct, 1514/15, St Mary-at-Hill (CA19). Clerk, chapel of St Thomas, London Bridge, 1517–20 (CA31, vol. V).Google Scholar

SQUIRE (SQUIER, SQUYRE), William. Conduct, St Mary Woolnoth, 1544–47 (CA21); he was also master of the choristers. Conduct, St Mary-le-Bow, 1547 (ROC). He is probably the ‘Squyre’ who was clerk of All Hallows Staining, 1537/38 (CA3/1 & 2).Google Scholar

STANBANK, Robert. Clerk, St Mary Woolnoth, 1550/51–57 (CA21).Google Scholar

STEPHENS, William. Conduct, St James Garlickhythe, 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

STODDARD, Richard. Clerk, St Thomas, London Bridge, 1531–34 (CA31, vol. VI).Google Scholar

STRETTON, Thomas. Teacher of children who took part in the Drapers’ Midsummer pageants of 1541 (JDC, vol. II, p. 273). He was also the composer of a song, Behold & see how byrds dothe fly, one voice part of which is preserved in BM. Pr. K. l. e. l. The words have been reprinted in Anglia XII, 1889, p. 596 (footnote). May be identified with the ‘Streton our Clarke’ of All Hallows, Lombard Street, who in 1552 bought ‘our churche bookes’ for £1 (WLC).Google Scholar

SWAYNE, Lawrence. Organist, St Mary-at-Hill, 1509–12 (CA19).Google Scholar

SWAYNE, William. Clerk, St Stephen Walbrook, (CA29/2).Google Scholar

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TAYLOR, John. Composer, Dramatic producer, and choirmaster, diedl569. Many details of his life may be found in PWA. Pine, however, assumes that the entry in the accounts of St Mary Woolnoth, 1556/57, implies that he was choirmaster there. The entry runs ‘Item paide the same day to Tailour the clark maister of the syngynge chyldren of the hospitall for hym and his chyldren… xvjd’ (CA21). In fact this reference almost certainly means that he was successor to Richard Lee as master of the choristers of St Anthony's Hospital (which was close to St Mary Woolnoth) and brought his boys to sing at St Mary's. Lee had established a connection with the Merchant Tailor's company, providing child actors for their pageants, and this connection was evidently maintained by Taylor. He became choirmaster of Westminster about 1560 and from then until his death he took part in various dramatic productions as a provider of child actors. Several of.these took.place in the City of London: in particular, pageants staged by the Merchant Tailors and the Ironmongers. He was probably the composer – ‘Mastyre Taylere’ – of a pavane (which is followed by a galliard, and therefore probably by the same composer) in the Dallis manuscript which dates from about 1560. This manuscript is discussed by Thurcton Dart in Music and Letters, XXXV (1954). A modern edition of the manuscript is The Dublin Virginal Manuscript, ed. John Ward. (Wellesley College, U. S. A. 1954).Google Scholar

TALLIS, Thomas. The facts about this important musician's life after the dissolution of Waltham Abbey in 1540 are well known and need not be rehearsed here. In 1531/32, he was ‘joculator organorum’ of Dover Priory; this was probably the first place that the King came into contact with him, for the computus of the Prior contains a payment of 4s. ‘in respect of servants and joculator for our Lord the king’ (HDP). He probably stayed at Dover (the accounts for other years than 1531/32 do not survive) until he became conduct of St Mary-at-Hill in 1536/37. He only stayed there until the middle of 1537/38, when, doubtless, he went to Waltham. The accounts of St Mary's suggest that there were strong links between that church and Waltham - the town house of the abbot was very close to the church - and this may have influenced his move (CA19). Some of his earlier works, particularly those in BMl and his settings of Matthew Parker's metrical psalms, may well have been written while he was at St. Mary's. He became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, it is believed, towards the end of the reign of Henry VIII; he was certainly a Gentleman in the reign of Edward VI (HCR), and he was a legatee and overseer of the will of Richard Pygott in 1549 (PCC, 42 Populwell).Google Scholar

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TANNER, Robert. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1547/48 (CA19). Perhaps he was the ‘Tanner, the basse’ who sang at the same church for a quarter of the year 1557/58. He is noted as conduct of St Mary's in the chantry certificates of 1547 (ROC).Google Scholar

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TENNE, (Sir) John. Priest, organ-player, St Dunstan-in-the-West, 1520/21, in the absence of John Scarlette (CA8).Google Scholar

TENWINTER (TYNWYNTYR), Andrew. Master of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1490, when he was clerk of St Bride, Fleet Street (GPC). Died in 1518. The death of ‘Marget Tymwynter', presumably his widow, is recorded in 1520.Google Scholar

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THORNE, John. Conduct, St Mary-at-Hill, 1539/40 (CA19). May possibly be identified with the ‘Thorn of York’ who was appointed organist of York and master of the choristers in 1543 (FAI/2). This Thorne was composer of an organ offertory ‘Exultabunt sancti’ in BM6, a motet ‘Stella celi extirpavit in BM5 and a four-part ‘In nomine at Oxford (Bodley 212–216).Google Scholar

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TYLL, John. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal; his name appears in lists dated 1520 and 1524 (HCR) but he was certainly singing for a much longer period than this., for he is mentioned as a Gentleman of the Chapel in the will of another Gentleman, Robert Skynner, dated 1527 (RCC, viii, 137'-138); and ‘John Tylle, gentleman of the King s chapel’ is complainant in a chancery case that was heard between 1533 and 1538. This case was against an innkeeper of Godmanchester, and was concerned with a horse which ‘febeld and fayled’ (ECP, 905/62–63) Together with William Golman, Tyll was a visiting singer at St Mary-at-Hill in 1524/25 (CA19).Google Scholar

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WALKER, Robert. Conduct, St Mary-le-Bow, 1547 (ROC). In the dissolution inventory of this church he is described as the clerk; in 1550 he paid £2 for two copes, two tunicles, a chasuble, an altar cloth of roses of gold and stars, ‘very sore worne'; £1 for 29 ragged old vestments; and 7s. for the rood loft – ‘and he paid for taking Downe of it’ (WLC).Google Scholar

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