The Pursuit of Musick
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Thomas Whythorne, c1576: The Autobiography of Thomas Whythorne, ed. J. M. Osborn (1961), 243–4
John Taverner i) 1528: John Higden, Dean of Cardinal College, letter (15 Mar. 1528) to a chaplain of Wolsey; ii) 1583: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (London, 1583 edn), ii, 251
London, 1554: J. G. Nichols, The Diary of Henry Machyn (Camden Soc.) (London, 1848), 78
Injunctions, 1559: (Act of Uniformity)
John Jewel, 1560: (Parker Soc. trans.) The Works of John Jewel, Pt 4, ed. J. Ayre (Cambridge, 1850), 1231
Church music in decline, c1567: The Praise of Musicke (MS, early 17th c), f.5v–6
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Catholic recusancy, c1586: (MS); J. L. Smith, ‘“Unlawful song”: Byrd, the Babington plot and the Paget choir’, EM 38/4 (2010), 505 & 506
England under Charles I: J. Wilson, Roger North on Music (1959), 293–4, 295
John Selden, ?1630s: Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden Esq. (London, 1689), 28 (‘King of England’)
Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1634: papers (MS); A. Ashbee, The Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins, i (1992), 32
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Civil war & the Protectorate i) 1642 Sgt Nehemiah Wharton, letter (Worcester, 7 Oct. 1642); ‘Letters from a Subaltern Officer of the Earl of Essex’s Army’, Archaeologia, 35 (1853), 332 ii) 1643: Anon., The Actors Remonstrance or Complaint for the Silencing of their Profession (London, 1643), 6–7 iii) 1650s: Thomas Tudway, Services and Anthems, ii (MS, 1716), preface; I. Spink, Restoration Cathedral Music 1660–1714 (1995), 436 (App.F) iv) 1657: William Dugdale, letter to John Langley (14 Nov. 1657); Fifth report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London, 1876), Appendix, 157
Sir William Davenant & The Siege of Rhodes, 1656: i) Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (London, 1691–2), ii, col.293 ii) The Fairy-Queen: an Opera (London, 1692), ‘Preface’
John Playford, 1659: John Playford, An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London, 1659)
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The Chapel Royal under Charles II: Pepys, diary entries; The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. R. Latham & W. Matthews, 11 vols (1970–83) i) (8 Jul. 1660) i, 195; (14 Sep. 1662) iii, 197 ii) Thomas Tudway, Services and Anthems, ii (MS, 1716), preface; I. Spink, Restoration Cathedral Music 1660–1714 (1995), 436–7 (App.F)
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Sir Bernard Gascoigne [in Florence], 1664/65 (to Sir Henry Bennet*): letters to Sir Henry Bennet (9 Dec 1664 & 10 Feb 1665, The National Archive, State Papers 98/5; Ester Lebedinski, "Obtained by peculiar favour, & much difficulty of the Singer": Vincenzo Albrici and the Function of Charles II's Italian Ensemble at the English Restoration Court', JRMA 143/2 (2018), 340
John Dryden, 1691: Henry Purcell, The Vocal and Instrumental Musick of the Prophetess, or the History of Dioclesian (London, 1691), dedication by John Dryden, f.A2r–v
Italian influences, late 17th c: J. Wilson, Roger North on Music (1959) i) 308, 310 ii) 25