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The
Worshipful Company
of
Musicians.
SECOND EDITION.
Issued by the Livery Club of the Company for Private
Circulation.
1905.
[Entered at Stationers' HALt.]
CONTENTS.
Page
Preface ... ... ... ... ix.
Introduction to 1902 Edition ... ... xv.
Master, Wardens and Court of Assistants
(190S) ••• ... ... ... T
Pages from the History of the Company ... 3
Charter of Edward IV. ... ... ... 21
Charter of James I. ... ... ... 29
Bye-Laws, 1606 ... ... ... 47
The Arms of the Company ... ... 82
Act of Common Council relative to Musicians
and Dancing Masters, 1700 ... ... 83
Laws and Orders, reprinted from a Book
issued by the Company in 1825 ... 89
Fines and Fees ... ... ... 100
Masters of the Company from 1800 to 1905 loi
A Past Member of the Company ... ... 105
Contents — Contd.
Page
The Company's Medal.
The Gold Medal ... ... ... 107
The Silver Gilt Medal ... ... 107
The Silver Medal ... .,. ... 107
Medallists from the Schools of Music ... 107
Awards in recognition of services to the
Company ... ... ... 109
Miniature Medals ... ... ... no
The Company's Scholarships.
Composition Scholars ... ... in
The Carnegie Scholars ... .., 112
The Ernest Palmer Scholarships ... n 3
Prize Competitions
The Coronation March ... ... 115
The "Grace" ... ... ... 117
Prize Setting by Dr. Charles Wood
Prize Setting by Mr. Arthur Henry
Brown (for Male Voices)
The Rev. Henry Cart's Prizes ... 118
The Cobbett Prize Competition ... 119
Contents — Contd.
Page
Recent Gifts to the Company.
The Rube Cup .. ... ... 120
The Crews Cup ... ... ... 122
Gowns for Master and Wardens ... ij2
The Banner ... ... ... 123
Portrait of Handel .. . ... ... 124
Gift for poor Students ... ... 124
Commemoration of the Tercentenary.
The Music Loan Exhibition ... ... 125
The Master's Banquet ... ... 140
The Honorary Freemen.
H.R.H. Prince Christian of Schleswig
Holstein, K.G., G.C.V.O. ... 141
Mr. Andrew Carnegie ... ... 142
Mr. S. Ernest Palmer ... ... 143
Dr. W. H. Curamings, and the Rev.
F. W. Galpin ... ... ... 144
The Maske of "The Golden Tree." ... 145
VI.
Contents — Contd.
The Musicians Company and Stationers' Hall
Roll of the Company, 1905,
The Livery
Honorary Freemen .. .
Apprentices
Index to the Roll ...
The Livery Clue.
Officers (1905)
History
Rules
Presidents
Members ...
Page
148
151
168
169
I 70
173
173
176
177
178
Vll.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page
Arms of the Company ..
Frontispiece
Master and Wardens
1
The Beadle's Mace
... 89
Sir John Stainer
lOI
Charles J. Ashley
... 105
The Medal
107
The Rube Cup
121
The Crews Cup
122
The Banner
123
Portrait of Handel
124
The Tercentenary Exhibition Poster
... 125
The Maske of " The Golden Tree "
MS
The Company's Form of Invitation
148
PREFACE.
The President and Committee of the Livery
Club have much pleasure in issuing this new
Edition of the Handbook, wherein will be found
historical notes concerning the Company, its
ancient Charters, Bye-laws, Roll of Members,
etc., together with a record of some recent
occurrences.
Since the issue of the first edition of this
volume in October, 1902, events of the highest
importance in the history of the Musicians' Com-
pany have taken place, and the whole period has
been one of continued progress. The Livery has
increased until its numbers have nearly doubled.
The Tercentenary of the granting of the 2nd
Charter by James I. has been commemorated by
the holding of a Music Lo^an Exhibition which is
believed to have surpassed in completeness any
that has hitherto been held. A member of the
Royal family and other distinguished persons
have been presented with the Honorary Free-
dom ; the system of Apprenticeship has been
revived ; Musical Scholarships have been
founded ; prize competitions held, and valuable
gifts made to the Company. Moreover, an
arrangement has been entered into with a
sister Company, the Worshipful Company of
Stationers, whereby the latter have conceded
the use of their fine old Hall for the official
gatherings of the Musicians' Company. These
events are all fully recorded.
The interesting notes contained in the Guide
Book to the Tercentenary Exhibition of 1904,
entitled, "Pages from the History of the Com-
pany," are reproduced.
The translations of the Charter of James I.
and the Bye-laws of 1606 have been carefully
compared with the text of the originals, and
sundry errors have now been eliminated.
Marginal notes have been added to the copies
both of the Charter and the Bye-laws.
The Act of Common Council of 1700 con-
firming the jurisdiction of the Company over
dancing masters is now included, and throws
some light on the position of the Company in
London at that period.
The information concerning the general his-
tory of the Company, at present available, is
very limited and of a more or less fragmentary
XI.
character ; a detailed history must be still left to
the future. It may, however, be mentioned that
the Company's jurisdiction was enforced as late
as 1763. In that year an action was successfully
brought by the Company before the Recorder
of London against Barton Hudson for employ-
ing persons not free as musicians at a Lord
Mayor's Banquet.
The list of Masters of the Company has been
carried back to 1 800, and the compilers consider
that by further enquiry it may be possible to
obtain much interesting information concerning
past Members of the Company.
The Roll of the Livery has been revised and
brought up to date. The number of Members
shown to be directly interested in Music is very
satisfactory. It must not, however, be
supposed that Members against whose names no
notes appear are lacking in activity in Music. It
is known that many of them are enthusiastic
amateurs giving great support to musical art,
and that others are accomplished instru-
mentalists. The Compilers invite the assist-
ance of Members to make this list as complete
as possible, and to forward particulars from
time to time to the Clerk of the Company.
The Illustrations in this Book form a feature
of new interest.
The Portrait of Sir John Stainer, from Her-
komer's painting (exhibited at the Loan
Exhibition at Fishmongers' Hall in 1904), is
reproduced by kind permission of Lady Stainer,
to whom the President and Committee tender
their sincere thanks.
Thanks are also due to Mr. C. T. D. Crews,
Master of the Company, for the Illustration of
The Maske of "The Golden Tree"; to Mr.
Arthur F. Hill, for the Portrait, from a painting
in his possession, of an old Member of the
Company, Charles Jane Ashley ; to Messrs.
James Truscott and Son., Ltd., for the Illustra-
tion of the Company's Medal ; to Messrs.
Metzler and Co., Ltd., for permission to include
copies of the Prize Settings of The Grace ; and
to Mr. C. R. Rivington, Clerk of the Stationers'
Company, Mr. T. L. Southgate and Mr. J. F. R.
Stainer for assistance in completing this work.
The beautifully-designed form upon which
the Court issues its invitation to the Livery and
guests is thought worthy of reproduction in this
book. It is almost an exact copy of the
Invitation used by the Company in 175 1, as
Xlll.
discovered by Mr. Arthur F. Hill in one of
the Company's old books. In the original the
motto upon the scroll was "Harmony/' but at
the suggestion of Sir John Stainer it was altered
to "Preserve Harmony." The plate was pre-
sented by Mr. Hill to the Court, and the thanks
of the Company are therefore due to him for
restoring the use of this handsome form.
■3)rd October, 1905.
Introduction to the First Edition.
' I '^ HIS book has been compiled with the
-^ object of placing in the hands of the
Livery of the Worshipful Company of Musicians,
a translation of the Charter granted by
James L, (under which the Company is at present
constituted,) together with the Bye Laws of the
Company, and other particulars, including a List
of the Livery at this date.
A copy of the earlier Charter granted by
Edward IV. to the Guild originally constituted
as a Fraternity of Minstrels, is also included.
This Charter is not in the possession of the
Company, but is preserved at Hereford, and the
text is printed in Rymer's Fcedera.
The List of Liverymen is arranged in order of
seniority according to the dates of their Admis-
sion on the Livery. Particulars are given, as
far as known to the Compilers, showing in what
directions Members of the Livery are actively
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interested in the Art of Music. It is hoped that
in a future issue these notes may be amplified,
and the Compilers invite the assistance of Livery-
men in making this List as complete and correct
as possible, while bespeaking their kind indul-
gence for any errors that may have crept into
the present edition.
6th October, 1902.
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THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY
OF MUSICIANS.
1905.
Master.
C. T. D. CREWS, Esq., D.L., J.P., F.S.A.
Wardens.
E. E. COOPER, Esq.
Sir HOMEWOOD CRAWFORD.
T. P. JONES, Esq.
H. R. FRISBY, Esq,
J. H. SKILBECK, Esq.
R. B. WARRICK, Esq.
Sir J. F. BRIDGE, M.V.O., Mus. Doc
J. C. COLLARD, Esq.
C. D. HOBLYN, Esq.
F. HARWOOD LESCHER, Esq.
Assistants.
WM. CORDY HERRING, Esq.
A. C. HUNTER, Esq.
T. L. SOUTHGATE, Esq.
The REV. R. H. HADDEN, M.A
ALFRED H. LITTLETON, Esq.
ARTHUR F. HILL, Esq. F.S.A.
W. P. FULLER, Esq.
Col. T. B. SHAW-HELLIER, J. P.
Honorary Chaplain.
The REV. ROBINSON DUCKWORTH, D.D., C.V.O.
Sub-Dean and Canon of Westminster.
Clerk.
T. C. FENWICK, Esq.,
1 6, Berners Street, W.
Beadle.
Mr. S. HILLS,
i6, Berners Street, W.
PAGES FROM THE
HISTORY OF THE COMPANY.*
The story of the Company of Musicians,
could it be fully told, would hardly fail to prove
one of the most interesting chapters in our
national annals, considering how intimately
music was associated, particularly from the
twelfth to the sixteenth century, with the life of
the EngHsh people. It carries us back in fact
to the days of the Minstrels, of whose guild the
Company may claim to be the lineal descendant
and modern representative. Unfortunately,
however, its history can never be fully written,
for its records have been hopelessly scattered
and lost. Industrious researches, which it is
hoped to continue, have nevertheless resulted in
bringing to light some more or less disjointed
records of the Company, which offer interesting
glimpses of the state of the Musical Art and of
the condition of its practitioners up to the open-
ing of the seventeenth century. Incomplete as
they are, it is felt that a glance at them will be
acceptable to the reader.
• Reprinted from the Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition held by the
Company at the Fishmongers' Hall, 1904.
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An Early Charter.
The earliest extant Royal Charter as yet
known, by which musicians in England were
incorporated into a fraternity or guild, was that
granted by Edward IV. to his Minstrels on April
24th, 1469. That ecirlier Charters must have
existed, however, may be inferred from the fact
that in this instrument reference is made to
similar fraternities founded "in times past." It
may also be inferred from the text of the
document that the Minstrels were already fallen
from the honourable position they held in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and were on the
road to the unhappy condition in which we find
them a century later, when they were classed with
"rogues and vagabonds." Indeed, the Charter,
the Latin text of which has been preserved for
us by Rymer, was granted at the prayer of the
King's Minstrels (of whom Walter Haliday was
the Chief or Marshal) to remedy the low state
into which their fortunes were fallen. Their
grievances are thus set forth in the preamble to
the Charter : —
" Be it known that we have learned from the
" complaint of our beloved Walter Haliday
"(Marshal), John Cliff, Robert Marshall, Thomas
5
"Grene, Thomas Calthorn, William Cliff, William
"Christean, William Eynsham, our Minstrels,
" that certain ignorant rustics and craftsmen of
" various callings in our Kingdom of England have
" falsely represented themselves to be Minstrels,
" of whom some, assuming our licence, which has
" in no way been granted to them, represent
" themselves as our Minstrels ; under the coloui
" of which licence and of the said art or occupation
" of Minstrels they in various parts of our
" Kingdom collect and receive large sums of
" money from our subjects.
" And although they are in that art or occupation
" by no means learned or skilled, and practise
" divers arts and callings on holidays and ordinary
" days and derive a sufficient living therefrom, they
" nevertheless move from place to place on festival
" days and collect all those profits by means of
" which our aforesaid Minstrels and our other
" Minstrels for the time being, sufficiently learned
" and instructed in the aforesaid art or occupation
" and practising no other craft, trade, or calling,
" should obtain their living.
" Furthermore, we learn that much disgrace
" is thus brought upon that art or occupation
" and manifold and manifest deterioration of our
" Minstrels practising the said art or occupation,
" and moreover no slight loss and grievance to our
" people engaged in agriculture or otherwise."
To remedy this state of things the King
granted to his Minstrels power to establish a
perpetual brotherhood or guild (" such as we learn
that brothers and sisters of the Fraternity of
Minstrels of our Kingdom in times past formed,
established and ordained ") into which they
might admit such persons, whether men or
women, as were likely to adhere loyally by them.
The guild was constituted one body and com-
munity with perpetual succession and was em-
powered to elect from among themselves a
marshal (to hold office for Hfe) and two wardens
yearly for the governance of the fraternity. To
it were committed full powers for the supervision,
examination and control of all Minstrels in the
Kingdom (except those in the county of Chester),
together with the appointment, subject to the
Royal approval, of the King's Minstrels. It is
characteristic of the age that in addition to these
duties the guild was
" specially bound to pray for the well-being of
" us and of our most dear Consort, Elizabeth,
" Queen of England, so long as we live, and for
" our souls when we shall have departed from
" this world, as also for the soul of our most
" dear lord and father, Richard, late Duke of York,
" and for the souls of our renowned progenitors,
" and for all the faithful departed, both in the
" Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary within the
" Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, and in
" our Royal Free Chapel of St. Anthony in our
" same City of London.''
Moreover, part of the fines levied upon offend-
ing brethren was assigned to the provision by
the Guild of "wax candles, commonly called
tapers," in the Chapels named.
A Picturesque Incident.
It will be noted that the Minstrels of the
county of Chester are exempted from the juris-
diction of the Guild. The exemption is due to a
curious incident in English history, upon which
Mr. G. P. R. James based a pretty little story
entitled " The Fight of the Fiddlers." A copy of
the book, which is probably now somewhat rare,
is exhibited in the present Exhibition. An
account of the event referred to, taken from Sir
Peter Leycester's "Historical Antiquities of
Cheshire," is printed both by Sir John Hawkins
in his "History of Music," and by the author of
the "Memorials of the Buttons of Button in
Cheshire," in which family was vested juris-
diction over the Minstrels and "other Vagrants "
of the county. This authority was conferred
upon Hugh de Button in the time of King John
by Randle, third Earl of Chester, under the
following circumstances : —
" Randle among the many conflicts he had was
" distressed by the Welsh and forced to retreat
" to the Castle of Rothlent in Flintshire about
" the reign of King John, where they besieged
" him. He presently sent to his Constable of
" Chester, Roger Lacy, surnamed Hell for his
" fierce spirit, that he would come with all speed
" and bring what forces he could to his relief.
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" Roger having gathered a tumultuous rout of
" fiddlers, players, coblers, both men and women,
" out of the City of Chester (for it was then the
" fair time in that City) marched immediately
" towards the Earl. The Welsh, perceiving a
" great multitude coming, raised the siege and
" fled. The Earl coming back with his constable
" to Chester gave him power over all the fiddlers
" and shoemakers, but John, his son, conferred
" this authority on his steward, who was then
" Hugh de Button, and his heirs."
Out of this concession arose a custom of
licensing the Minstrels of the county, for which
purpose a Court was held annually at Chester on
St. John the Baptist's Day (Midsummer Day),
when each Minstrel who sought for a licence had
to give four flagons of wine to the representative
of the Dutton family, who presided, and pay
4^d. The right of the Duttons in this matter
was tested by the Crown by writ of Quo
Warranto and was admitted, and it was sub-
sequently recognised in various Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to Vagabonds. The last Court
was held in the year 1756.
The Minstrels of the City of London.
How long the Fraternity of Minstrels estab-
lished by the Charter granted by Edward IV.
endured, or whether it wrought any improve-
ment in the condition of the Minstrels, there is
9
nothing to show. Search has brought to Hght
entries in various records of the Corporation of
the City of London relating to the employment
of Minstrels as far back as the year 1334, but
they contain no mention of the guild. About
the year 1500, however, we find in existence a
"Fellowship of Minstrels and Freemen of the
City of London," and we see that they too were
suffering under precisely the same grievances as
those of which the Minstrels of Edward IV. had
complained. For in a petition to the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen they set forth that owing
to the " Continuell recorse of foreign* Minstrells
daily resorting to the Citee out of all the contrays
of England " they are "brought in such povertie
and decaye that they be not of power or habilitie
to have charges to pay lote and scot and do their
dutie as other freemen doon." The plaint is
thus in substance a repetition of that made by the
King's Minstrels some thirty years or so before.
And for a remedy the fellowship demand that it
shall be ordained that "no maner of foreigner of
whatsoever condition he be " shall under penalty
of paying a fine of 3 s. 4d. to the Fellowship be
* By "foreign" here is clearly meant not only aliens, but all
musicians who came into the City from other Englisn towns and had
not been admitted to the freedom of the Fellowship of Minstrels.
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permitted to "occupie any Minstrelsy, singying,
or playeng upon any jnstrument," within the city
or its franchises. They also ask for the approval
of certain rules and regulations which they had
framed for the better government of the Fellow-
ship. By these the members are forbidden to
"rebuke, revile or greve each other with any
sclanderous wordes or wordes of velanys " ; they
are not to " tech or inform any other person than
their own apprentices in any point of this feat of
Minstralsy," and no freeman is to take any
servant for any term " otherwise than by appren-
tishode for vij. yeres according to the laudable
custome of this Citie." This petition was
granted by the Court of Common Council.
This revision of the fellowship rules apparently
failed to overcome the abuses which it was in-
tended to repress; for in 15 18 the Master and
Wardens again appeared before the Lord Mayor
with a petition for further alterations in the
statutes. Powers were now sought to slightly
change the method of electing the governing
body, and rules were introduced to prevent any
freeman from proceeding against another at law
until he had first laid his grievance before the
Master and Wardens, who "for the honestie of
II
the ffeliship shall charitably call the parties
before them if they can or may to settle the said
parties at reest and peace." Members are further
forbidden to induce servants to leave their
masters during the time they are under covenant
to serve; to "rebuke, revyle, or smyte each
other " ; no freemen, unless they have been
master or wardens, are permitted to take more
than one apprentice, "to the intent that the
apprentice may thus better be applied, lerned, or
sette at work " ; no minstrell " shall supplante or
get out another being hired or spoken to " for
any musical engagement ; and no apprentice is
allowed till he is declared free of the Fellowship
to "use or occupie his instrument openly or
privately " in any tavern or at any ceremony.
With all the efforts made to repress them, the
"foreigners " were clearly a source of perpetual
trouble to the Fellowship. In 1555 the Master
and Wardens again complain of the " dyverse and
many foreyn Mynstrells " who "exercise the
scyence of Mynstralsie within the Cytie and
Lyberties thereof, to the great losse and
hindraunce of the gaines and profits of the poore
mynstrells being fremen of the same Cytie."
Rules were accordingly enacted forbidding all
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such "foreign Minstrells " to exercise their craft
under a penalty of 3s. 4d. The rule against the
employment of more than one apprentice is
renewed, and it is further forbidden to play upon
any instrument in the open streets, lanes or alleys
of the City between the hours of ten at night and
five in the morning, though the City "waits " are
permitted to play and keep their "accustomed
watches as thei at their accustomed tymes and
howres vse and heretofore have vsed the same."
And forasmuch as
" dyverse and menie artyfycers and handye crafts
" men, as tayllers, showmakers, and such others,
" leving the vse and exercyse of their crafts and
" manuell occupacions and giving themselves
" wholy to wandering abrode, ryott, vyce, and
" idlenes, doe commonly vse nowe a dayes to
" singe songs called Thre mens songs in the
•' Taverns, ale houses, Innes, and such other
" places of this Cytie and also at vyeadings, &c.,"
they are forbidden so to do, inasmuch as the
practice tended to the "greate losse, preiudyce,
and hindraunce of the said poore felowship of
the Mynstrells of the said Cytie." It is also
forbidden to^ any person " f oren or f reman " to
keep or teach any school of dancing. In 1561
an order was issued calling upon Minstrels, not
being free of the City Fellowship, to be obedient
to its Wardens.
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In the course of the next twelve years the
members of the fellowship had clearly fallen
away from the standard of conduct which their
rulers were striving to maintain among them ;
for in June 14, 1574, another scheme of reforma-
tion was propounded. It begins by reciting that
the ancient Company of Minstrels
" hath of late tyme not only much decayed but also
" hath bynne brought into contempt and hatryd by
" occasion of sondry disorders and inormyties vsed
" by persounes exercisinge that arte being not sub-
" jecte to the good lawes and ordinaunces of the
" Company, to the great dishonour of the Cittye,
" disfurniture of that service, pestering of the
" Cittye with multitudes of apprentices, dishonest-
" inge of the said arte and greate occasion of
" vnchast, wastful, lewde and dangerous practises
" amonges good citizens children and apprentices."
With a view therefore to remedy this state of
things, the rules contained in the former
ordinance are strictly re-enacted, and members
of the fellowship are warned to be obedient to
the laws and rules passed for its good
governance.
A New Charter.
In spite of the efforts which we have thus seen
continually renewed to infuse new life into the
Fellowship, it appears to have been unable to
keep its members wholly in hand. And so it
14
comes that in 1604 we find the Society of
Minstrels in London petitioning the Crown for a
new Charter of Incorporation. This was granted
by the King, James I., on the 8th July of the
year named. The company thus constituted is
styled "The Master, Wardens and Commonalty
of the Art or Science of the Musicians of
London." They are erected into one body
politic with perpetual succession and a common
seal, and are invested with all the privileges
usually bestowed upon such corporations. They
are to be governed by a Master, two Wardens
and thirteen or more (not exceeding twenty)
assistants. The first Master (Phillip London),
first Wardens (Isaac Thorpe and Thomas
Carter) and fourteen assistants were nominated
by the Charter. (It is interesting to note, as
showing the continuity of the new Fellowship
with its predecessor, that amongst the assistants
was William Warren, who had been Master of
the old Company in 1 594). Provision was made
for the annual election of officers, and powers
were given for the governance of the Fellowship.
These powers included authority to make all
" reasonable laws, statutes, constitutions, decrees
" and ordinances whatsoever, in writing which
" shall be necessary for the good rule and govern-
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" ment of the Company and of all other Minstrels
" and Musicians of the City of London and within
" three miles of the same city ; and for the decla-
" ration in what manner the Master, Wardens and
" assistants, and all persons of the Company, shall
" behave themselves in their ofl&ces, art and
" science."
Power is further given to make and provide
pains, punishments and penalties by imprison-
ment and fines or by both, against offenders
against the said laws and ordinances.
To the Company is also committed "the
survey, search, correction, and government of all
and singular Musicians and Minstrels within the
City of London and within three miles thereof."
How the Company was governed.
In accordance with the authority thus con-
ferred upon them, the Company adopted by-laws,
which were confirmed by the proper legal
authority, the Lord Chancellor and the Judges.
Some of these regulations are curious and
interesting.
After providing for the election of the Master
and Wardens and the proper discharge of their
duties, rules are laid down for the conduct of the
ordinary members. They are not permitted to
exercise their art within the jurisdiction of the
Company without having first obtained written
permission under the common seal.
No person of the Fellowship " shall unseemly
revile, rebuke, smite, or abuse any brother of the
same Fellowship, either by facing, bracing, evil
reproaching or affraying."
It is forbidden to "supplant, defeat or put out,
or wittingly practice to supplant, defeat or put
out any musician free of the said Fellowship,
being first hired and spoken to to serve at any
triumphs, marriages, revels, feasts," &c., &c.
A most important rule, which many would
like to see generally followed at the present day,
provided that
the Master and Wardens, or such other discreet
and skilful persons as shall be appointed, shall
and may at all times call before them to the
Common Hall or to other convenient place
appointed, all persons, as well free of the
Fellowship as all others, which use or exercise
the Art or Science of Musicians in the teaching
of musick or dancing within the City of London
and three miles thereof, and there examine,
approve, and allow the said parties for their
sufficiency and skill in the said Art or Science
and to reject or disallow of any party for his
insufficiency and want of skill. And that no
person being disallowed as insufficient and unfit
shall presume to exercise the Art or Science.
Fines were imposed for disorder and abuse
tending to the hurt or prejudice of the art ; for
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introducing any foreigner to use or practise it,
and upon all persons not being free of the
Company who used or exercised it. Strict rules
were enforced with regard to the fitness of the
apprentices and their number. After an order
forbidding dancing on Sundays we find the
following: — "Neither shall any person sing any
ribaldry, wanton or lascivious songs or ditties
at any time or place whereby God may be dis-
honoured, or any slander or infamy may arise or
be given of or to the said Science ; " and this
under pain of fine and imprisonment.
It was further ordained "that no persons free
of the said art or science, or any of their servants
or apprentices, or any other persons professing
the art or science, either in consort or otherwise,
shall at any time play upon any kind of
instrument either evening or morning, at or
under any nobleman, knight, or geiitleman's
windows or lodging in the street, or the window
or lodging of any other person whatsoever,
without license or leave " of the Company.
A similar law forbids the same persons to play
at any weddings, feasts, banquets, revels, or other
assemblies or meetings, under the number of
four, in consort or with violins.
c
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A fine of twelve pence is imposed upon any
person "who shall go himself, or suffer his
servant or apprentice to go, in ciny open street
from house to house with an instrument uncased
or uncovered, to be seen by any passing by."
The next law dealt with strangers, who were
clearly as unwelcome in those times as in many
quarters we know them to be to-day. By this
rule musicians were forbidden "by themselves,
their servants, or apprentices, to play upon or
with any instrument, or use the said art or science
of music, or any other thing concerning the same
in consort, or any kind of instrument whatsoever
of or with any foreigner or foreigners, servants,
or apprentices, upon pain to forfeit for every such
offence three shillings and four pence."
Then comes a regulation with regard to
apprentices and servants. It enacts that no
musicians
" shall suffer their servants or apprentices to serve
" by themselves with any music at any feasts,
" banquets, weddings, hunts up, or at any other
" assemblies, triumphs or occasions, either to go
" abroad in the streets or to play at any taverns,
" victualling houses or any other place whatsoever,
" except they do go in with the Company of two
" freemen at the least, well and sufficiently exer-
" cised and experienced in the said art or science
" of music, whereof one to be the Master of some
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" one of tlie said apprentices or servants. As also
" foreigners shall in like manner observe the same
" orders as the freemen, v?hereby they may be the
" better guided and directed in that science for the
" laud, honour, and commendation thereof ; and
" that the freeman or foreigner being Master of the
" said apprentice or servant shall himself, or the
" other freemen or foreigner master, offer or present
"the music, and not any other his apprentice or
" servant, upon pain to forfeit for every offence
" three shillings and four pence."
That the Company had an eye to the morals
of apprentices is sufficiently attested by the
following enactment : " Be it also ordained that
if any person professing the said art or science
of Music shall at any time by any means, directly
or indirectly, by himself or willingly know or
suffer his servant or apprentice to use or practice
any manner of unlawful games at any time or
in any place with any freemen's servants or
apprentices either of the said art or being free
of any other Company whatsoever, or any
foreigners, shall in any wise or by any means
countenance him or them therein," he shall for
every such offence forfeit ten shillings or suffer
imprisonment.
Other regulations provide for the adjustment
of grievances between members by the Master
and Wardens, whose permission is necessary for
the institution of lawsuits.
Translation of
CHARTER OF EDWARD IV.*
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE KING'S
MINSTRELS.
THE KING TO ALL THOSE TO
WHOM, &c., GREETING.
Be it known that we have learned from
the complaint of our beloved Walter Haliday
(Marshall), John CHff, Robert Marshall, Thomas
Grene, Thomas Calthom, William Cliff, William
Christean, William Eynsham, our Minstrels, thai
certain ignorant rustics and craftsmen of various
callings in our Kingdom of England have falsely
* This Charter is still extant, and is printed in Rymer's *' Foedera "
(XI. 642).
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represented themselves to be Minstrels. Of
whom some assuming our Hcence which has in
no way been granted to them, represent them-
selves as our Minstrels ; under the colour of
which licence and of the said art or occupation of
Minstrels they in various parts of our Kingdom
collect and receive large sums of money from
our subjects.
And although they are in that art or occupa-
tion by no means learned or skilled, and prac-
tise divers arts and callings on holidays and
ordinary days and derive a sufficient living there-
from, they nevertheless move from place to place
on festival days and collect all those profits by
means of which our aforesaid Minstrels and our
other Minstrels for the time being, sufficiently
learned and instructed in the aforesaid art or
occupation, and practising no other craft, trade
or calling, should obtain their living.
Furthermore, we learn that much disgrace is
thus brought upon that axt or occupation, and
manifold and manifest deterioration of our
Minstrels practising the said art or occupation,
and moreover no slight loss and grievance to our
people engaged in agriculture or otherwise.
Therefore, our Minstrels have humbly be-
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sought us that we would of our grace and special
favour deign to provide for them a suitable
remedy in this matter.
We, considering the foregoing and being
favourably inclined to their reasonable supplica-
tion in this matter, have of our own favour,
certain knowledge and of our own motion,
granted and given our licence and by these
presents do grant and give licence for ourselves
and our heirs as far as in us lies to the said
Walter Haliday (Marshall), John Cliff, Robert
Marshall, Thomas Grene, Thomas Calthom,
William CHff, WiUiam Christean and WilHam
Eynsham, our Minstrels, that they to the praise
and honour of God, and that they may be the
more specially bound to pray for the well-being
of us and of our most dear Consort Elizabeth
Queen of England so long as we live and for
our souls when we shall have departed from
this world; as also for the soul of our most
dear lord and father Richard late Duke of York,
and for the souls of our renowned progenitors
and for all the faithful departed, both in the
Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary within the
Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London and in
our Royal Free Chapel of St. Anthony in our
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same City of London, to found, to continue and
to increase a certain perpetual Brotherhood or
Guild (such as we learn that brothers and sisters
of the Fraternity of Minstrels of our Kingdom
in times past formed, established and ordained),
and that they may be enabled to^ receive, to
admit and to accept as brothers and sisters of
the said Brotherhood or Guild, whatsoever
persons, both men and women, adhering to them
with loyal intention ;
And that our aforesaid Marshall and Minstrels
are and shall be in law and name a body sole
and community sole and perpetual, able and
capable at law, and shall have perpetual suc-
cession ;
And that the aforesaid Minstrels who now are
as well as our other Minstrels and those of our
heirs in perpetuity, shall be able at their pleasure
to name, elect, ordain and successively constitute
from among themselves, a Marshall capable and
fit to remain in that office for the term of his
life, and also each year two Wardens to rule and
govern the said brotherhood or guild ;
And furthermore we will and by these presents
grant for the support and increase of the said
brotherhood or guild that no Minstrel of our
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Kingdom, even though he be sufficiently in-
structed in the art or occupation, shall hence-
forth in any way practise or publicly exercise
the art or occupation within our Kingdom afore-
said, unless he belong to the said Brotherhood
or Guild and shall have been admitted to the
same and shall have contributed to it with the
other brethren (provided that none of the afore-
said brethren or those to be admitted shall pay
for entrance or admission more than three shil-
lings and four pence) ; and if he should do other-
wise or should in any way contravene he shall
by the aforesaid Marshall and Minstrels of our-
selves or our heirs for the time being be fined
according to their discretion ;
And that our aforesaid Marshall and Minstrels
and their Wardens and their successors shall
be able lawfully and with impunity to summon,
make, and ordain lawful and orderly meetings
and communications among themselves and
lawful statutes and rules for the proper govern-
ment and the advantage of the Brotherhood or
Guild when and as often as it may be necessary ;
And if any of our Minstrels or those of our
heirs should depart or die or should on account
of shortcomings or offences or other cause what-
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soever be released, removed or deposed from our
service, then the Marshall and other Minstrels
at the time existing shall on our behalf elect and
nominate another Minstrel, fit and sufficiently
learned and skilled in the art or occupation
wherever in our Kingdom, whether within or
without the Liberties, they may chance to find
him (the County of Chester excepted) in the
stead and place of the one departed, released,
removed or deposed, and to instal him. as one of
our or our heirs' Minstrels to- be retained in our
service, to receive our pay, or royal assent thereto
having been obtained.
And moreover we will and by these presents
grant to the aforesaid Marshall and Minstrels
that they and their successors shall have the
power and faculty to- inquire by all reasonable
and lawful ways, methods and means throughout
the whole of our aforesaid Kingdom, as well
within as without the Liberties (the aforesaid
County of Chester excepted) concerning each
and every person pretending to be a Minstrel
and falsely claiming our Licence and improperly
and illegally professing or exercising the afore-
said art or occupation, or not belonging to the
aforesaid Brotherhood or Guild ; and concerning
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all other matters and circumstances regarding
the foregoing ;
And from time to time, as often as may be
necessary, as well within as without the Liberties
(the County of Chester excepted) to supervise,
to examine, to rule and to govern all and each
of those persons practising the art and occupa-
tion of Minstrels and to justly and properly
correct and punish any one of them for offences
or shortcomings in respect of the foregoing.
And all penalties, fines, forfeitures, or damages
whatsoever (if in accordance with the foregoing
any such should be properly or probably ad-
judged, assessed or imposed by reason of such
inquisition, examination or scrutiny, upon any
one pretending to be Minstrels or otherwise
offending) shall be collected, applied and ex-
pended for the use and advantage of the
Brotherhood, for the continual and perpetual
maintenajice of certain wax candles (commonly
called tapers), for the expenses in the aforesaid
Chapels of the Brotherhood at present existing
or which may come to exist in the future.
Shall be held, occupied, exercised, enjoyed
all and singly the aforesaid inquisition, scrutiny,
supervision, rule, government, correction, punish-
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ment, and other things aforesaid in the ways
and forms above cited by the aforementioned
Walter, John, Robert, Thomas Grene, Thomas
Calthorn, WilHam Cliff, William Christean and
William Eynsham our Minstrels and -their suc-
cessors for ever without let, hindrance, impedi-
ment, molestation, disturbance, or injury of us,
our heirs, justiciaries, escheats, ministers or
others whatsoever.
Translation of
CHARTER OF JAMES I.
Taken front the contemporary copy in the
Possession of the Company.
James, by the Grace of God King of England, 2 jsmes 1.
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, &c. To all to whom these present letters
shall come, greeting : Know ye that of our
special grace, certain science, and mere motion,
and at the humble petition of our faithful Petition ot
subjects the freemen of the Society of Minstrels Minstrels
of our City of London, we have willed, ordained, °' ''°"''°"-
constituted, declared, and granted, and by these
presents for us, our heirs and successors, do
will, ordain, constitute, declare, and grant, that
they, the foresaid freemen of the Society afore-
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Incorporation
and Title of
Company.
Power to
acquire and
deal with
Property
said, or by what other name or names the same
Society is called or named, and their successors,
from henceforth for ever may be and shall be
by force of these presents one body corporate
and politic in substance, deed, and name, by the
name of master, wardens, and commonalty of
the Art or Science of the Musicians of London,
and them, by the name of the master, wardens,
and commonalty of the Art or Science of the
Musicians of London, one body corporate and
politic in substance, deed, and name, really and
fully for us, our heirs and successors) we do
erect, make, ordain, appoint, confirm, and declare
by these presents ; and that by that name they
shall have perpetual succession, and so from
henceforth shall be named, called, and accepted
in our City of London and elsewhere, and not
otherwise : And that they and their successors,
by the name of the master, wardens, and com-
monalty of the Art or Science of the Musicians
of London, be and shall be at all times for ever
to come persons able and capable in law to
have, purchase, receive, and possess messuages,
lands, tenements, hberties, privileges, jurisdic-
tions, franchises, and hereditaments, of what
nature, kind, or property soever the same shall
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be, to them and their successors in fee and
perpetuity, or for term of year or years, or other- ■'o"' "«»' '"'*
Personali
wise howsoever, and also goods and chattels and
other things whatsoever, of what kind, name,
nature, quality, or property they shall be : And
to give, grant, demise, alien, assign, and dispose
lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and to
do and execute all and every other deeds and '° "'^"'
^ Corporate
things, by the name aforesaid ; and that by the Name.
same name of the master, wardens, and com-
monalty of the Art or Science of Musicians of
London they shall be able and may plead and
be impleaded, make answer and be answered,
defend and be defended in whatsoever courts „
Power to sue
and places, and before whatsoever judges and andbesuei.
justices, and whatsoever other persons and
officers of ours, our heirs and successors, in all
and singular actions, pleas, suits, plaints, causes,
matters, and demands whatsoever, of what kind,
nature, quality, or form they be or shall be, in
the like manner and form' as any other our
liege people of this our realm of England,
persons able and capable in law, or any other
body corporate and politic within our realm of
England, can or may have, purchase, receive,
possess, enjoy, retain, give, grant, demise,
Common Seal.
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alienate, assign, and dispose, plead and be
impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and
be aefended, do, permit or execute : And that
the master, wardens, and commonalty of the
Art or Science of Musicians of London aforesaid
shall have for ever a common seal to serve for
the dispatching of the affairs and business what-
soever of them and their successors; and that
it shall and may be lawful to the same master,
wardens, and commonalty of the Art or Science
of Musicians of London aforesaid from time to
time, at their pleasure, to break and change that
seal, and to make a new one, as to them shall
be thought meet : And, moreover, we will and
Election oi ^y these presents for us, our heirs and suc-
Master,
cessors, do grant to* the foresaid master, wardens,
and commonalty, and their successors, that
there may be and shall be for ever one of the
commonalty aforesaid, to be chosen in form
hereafter in these presents mentioned, who shall
be and shall be named the master of the said
Art or Science of Musicians of London : And
that likewise there may be and shall be two of
two Wardens, the commonalty of the same art or science, to
be named and chosen in form hereafter in these
presents mentioned, who shall be and shall be
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named wardens of the Art or Science of
Musicians of London aforesaid : And that like-
wise there may be and shall be thirteen or more, '"'' '^ or more,
notexceediDg20
not exceeding the number of twenty in the Assistants,
whole, to be chosen of the commonalty aforesaid
in form hereafter in these presents mentioned,
who shall be and shall be named assistants of
the Art or Science of Musicians of London, and
shall be from time to time aiding ajid assisting to
the same master and wardens for the time being
in all causes, business, and matters touching or
concerning the said commonalty ■- And, more-
over, we will and by these presents for us, our
heirs and successors, do grant to the foresaid
master, wardens, and commonalty of the Art or Power to mike
Science of Musicians of London aforesaid, and Jl- '"*""
' Ordinances.
to their successors, that the master, wardens, and
assistants of the Art or Science of Musicians of
London for the time being, or the greater part
of them, upon summons of the master and
wardens for the time being, or the greater part
of them (being gathered together for this pur-
pose), in that behalf to be made, may have and
shall have full power and authority to frame,
appoint, ordain, and make from time to time
reasonable laws, statutes, constitutions, decrees,
D
u
or the
government of
the Company
and of all
Minstrels and
Musicians of
the City of
London and
within 3 miles
thereof.
and to impose
fines and
penalties
and ordinances whatsoever, in writing, which to
them, or the greater part of them, according to
their good discretions, shall seem to be good,
wholesome, profitable, honest, and necessary for
the good rule and government of the master,
wardens, and commonalty of the art or science
aforesaid, and of all other minstrels and
musicians of the City of London, and within
three miles of the same city, for the time being,
and for the declaration in what manner and
form the same master, wardens, and assistants,
and all and singular persons of the commonalty
aforesaid, shall bear and behave themselves in
their office, art, and science, for the further public
weal and common profit of the same master,
wardens, and commonalty of the art or science
aforesaid, and in all other affairs and causes
whatsoever touching or in anywise concerning
the art and science aforesaid : And that the
same master, wardens, and assistants of the art
and science aforesaid for the time being, or the
greater part of them, as often as they shall make,
frame, ordain, or establish such laws, statutes,
institutions, ordinances, and constitutions in
form aforesaid, shall and may make, limit, and
provide such pains, punishments, and penalties,
3^
by imprisonment of body, or by fines and ameir-
ciaments, or by both of them, towards and upon '<"■ breach of
11 a- 1 • , , ^'^"^ Bye-Law
all oltenders against the same laws, statutes,
institutions, ordinances, and constitutions, or any
of them, as to the same master, wardens, and
assistants for the time being, or the greater part
of them, shall be thought necessary or requisite
for the observation of the same laws, ordinances,
and constitutions; and the same fines and
amerciaments to have to the use of the said
master, wardens, and commonalty, and their
successors, without impediment of us, our heirs
or successors, or of Einy officers or ministers of
us, our heirs or successors, and without any
account therefore to be yielded to us, our heirs
or successors: All and every which said laws,
ordinances, statutes, and constitutions so as
aforesaid to be made we will shall be observed
under the pains therein contained, so that the
same laws, ordinances, constitutions, imprison- provided they
. 1 1 b' reasonable.
ments, fines, and amerciaments be reasonable,
and not repugnant, nor contrary to the laws,
statutes, customs, or rights of our realm of
England : And for the better execution of our
will and grant in this behalf we have assigned,
named, created, constituted, and made, and by
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MASTER .
Phillip London,
till 2gth Sept.,
1604.
FIRST
WARDENS.
Isaac Thorpe
and
Thomas Carter,
till 29th Sept.,
1604.
these presents for us, our heirs and successors,
do assign, name, create, constitute, and make,
our beloved PhiUip London to be the first and
present master of the foresaid Art or Science of
the Musicians of London : Willing that the same
Phillip London shall be and continue master of
the art or science aforesaid from the date of
these presents untO' the Feast of St. Michael the
Archangel next following after the date of these
presents, and from the same feast until one
other to the office of master of the art or science
aforesaid shall be in due form chosen and
elected according to the orders and provisions
hereafter in these presents expressed and de-
clared, if the Scune Phillip London shall so long
live : We have also assigned, named, and
appointed, and by these presents fox us, our
heirs and successors, do assign, name, and
appoint, our well-beloved Isaac Thorpe and
Thomas Carter to be the two first and present
wardens of the said Art or Science of the
Musicians of London, to continue in the said
office of wardens of the said art or science from
the date of these presents unto the foresaid
Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next coming
after the date of these presents, and from the
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same feast until two others to the same office
of wardens of the same art or science shall be
elected and chosen according to the ordinances
and provisions in these presents expressed and
declared, if the said Isaac Thorpe and Thomas
Carter shall so long live, unless in the mean-
time they, or either of them, shall be removed
from that office for their evil government or evil
behaviour in that behalf, or for some reasonable
cause: And we have assigned, named, created,
and constituted, and by these presents for us,
our heirs and successors, do assign, name, con-
stitute, and make, our well-beloved Anthony p,„^j,
Tindall, James Sherman, Walter Lowman, assistants
WilHam Warren, Arthur Norton, Tristram Anthony xindaii
and 13 others,
Waters, William Benton, Rowland Robedge, appointed for
life.
Robert Baker, John Mitchell, John Popson,
Vincent Johnveryn, John Bickley, and Simon
Hopper to be the first and present assistants
of the same master, wardens, and commonalty
of the art or science aforesaid, to continue in
the same offices during their natural lives, unless
they or any of them shall be in the meantime
amoved from thence for their evil government
or evil behaviour in that behalf, or for any other
reasonable cause: And that it shall and may
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The Court from
time to time to
elect
'* Ancientest
'and most
'* worthy
"Freemen of the
** Commonalty"
lobe Assistants.
Oath of
Assistants.
Master and
Warden to be
elected
annuallvi
be lawful to the same master, wardens, and
assistants for the time being, or to the greater
part of them for the time being, at their
pleasure, to elect, name, and admit from time
to time such and so many of the ancientest and
most worthy freemen of the same commonalty
as to them shall be thought meet to be the
assistants of the same master and wardens, and
their successors ; and that he or they, after he
or they shall be so elected and named, shall
take a corporal oath before the master and
wardens for the time being to execute that
office rightly, well, and honestly in all things
touching that office (so that the number of the
said assistants do not at any time exceed the
number of 20 persons) ; and to remove any of
the said assistants for the time being, or which
hereafter shall be, for any reasonable cause, and
to choose, appoint, and admit others of new :
And, moreover, we will and grant by these
presents for us, our heirs and successors, to the
said master, wardens, and commonalty, and
their successors, that the said master, wardens,
and assistants of the art or science aforesaid
for the time being, or the greater part of them,
from time to time, at all times to come, shall
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and may have power and authority every year
for ever at the Feast of St. Michael the Arch- •' Michaelmas,
or within
angel, or within 20 days after that feast, to name 20 days atter.
and choose, and that they shall and may name
and choose, one of the freemen of the common-
alty aforesaid, the which shall be master of the
Art and Science of the Musicians of London for
one whole year then next following : And that
he which shall be elected and named to be
master of the art or science aforesaid shall,
before his admittance into that office, take his
corporal oath before the last master, his prede- O""' "' Master
cessor, and the wardens of the art or science
aforesaid for the time being truly, well, and
faithfully to execute that office in all things
touching the same office ; and also two others
of the foresaid commonalty of the art or science
aforesaid which shall be wardens of the same
art or science aforesaid for one whole year then
next ensuing: And that he which shall be
elected and chosen as aforesaid into the office Master and
Wardenstohold
of the master of the art or science aforesaid office for one
shall and may execute the office of the master '"'"'■
of the art or science aforesaid for one whole year
then next following ; and that they which shall
be elected and chosen as aforesaid into the
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Oath of
Wardens.
office of the wardens of the art or science afore-
said shall execute the office of the wardens of
the same art or science for one whole year then
next following, and take a corporal oath before
the master of the art or science aforesaid, the
last wardens, their predecessors, smd so many of
the assistants as shall be then present, to
execute the office of wardens of the art or science
aforesaid well, uprightly, and honestly in all
things touching that office : And, further, we
will and by these presents grant for us, our
heirs' and successors, to the foresaid master,
Proviso m event yy^rdens, and commonalty, and their successors,
of vacancy by "^
that if the master and wardens of the com-
monalty aforesaid, or any of them, shall happen
to die or to be removed from their office at any
time within one year after they or any of them
shall be elected and chosen as aforesaid to the
office of the master or to the office of wardens
of the art or science aforesaid (which said master
and wardens and every of them we will shall
be to be removed for evil government or for
any other reasonable cause, by the greater part
of the same master, wardens, and assistants),
that then and so often it shall and may be
lawful for such and so many of the same master,
r vacancy by
death or
removal of
Master or
Wardens.
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wardens, and assistants who shall then survive
or remain, or the greater part of them, at their
pleasure, to elect and choose one other to be
master, and one other or two others to be warden
or wardens of the art or science aforesaid, accord-
ing to the ordinances and provisions before by
these presents declared, to execute and exercise
the said office of master or the said office or
offices of warden or wardens aforesaid until the
Feast of St. Michael the Archangel then next
following, the like corporal oath being taken
as aforesaid in form aforesaid, and so as often
as any such occasion shall happen : And, more-
over, of our more abundant special grace, certain
science, and mere motion we have given and Licence to hold
. land in
granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs Mortmain,
and successors, do give and grant, to the said
master, wardens, and commonalty, and their
successors, special free license, lawful power,
faculty, and authority to have, purchase, receive,
and possess to them and their successors for ever
messuages, lands, tenements, meadows, feed-
ings, pastures, woods, underwoods, rectories,
tithes, rents, reversions, and other hereditaments
whatsoever within our realm of England or else-
where within our dominions, as well of us, our
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heirs and successors, as of any other person or
persons, which are not immediately held of us,
our heirs or successors, in capite or by knight's
service, so as the same messuages, lands, tene-
ments, meadows, feedings, pastures, woods,
underwoods, rectories, tithes, rents, reversions,
services, and other hereditaments do not exceed
Net nnnusi in the wholc the yearly value of twenty pounds
exceed twent '^^^^ ^^'^ above all charges cind reprises, (the
pounds. statute of lands and tenements not to be put
into mortmain, or any other statute, act, ordi-
nance, or provision heretofore had, made, or pro-
vided, or any other cause, matter, or thing what-
soever to the contrary thereof in anywise not-
withstanding) : And also we give and grant for
us, our heirs and successors, by these presents
to every subject and subjects of us, our heirs
and successors, free and special license, lawful
power, faculty, and authority that they or any
of them may give, grant, sell, bequeath, or
alienate messuages, lands, tenements, meadows,
feedings, pastures, woods, underwoods, rectories,
tithes, rents, reversions, services, and other
hereditaments whatsoever, which are not held
of us, our heirs and successors, in capite or other-
wise by knight's service, unto the said master,
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wardens, and commonalty of the Art or Science
of the Musicians of London, and to their suc-
cessors, so that all the same messuages, lands,
tenements, meadows, feedings, pastures, woods,
underwoods, rectories, tithes, rents, reversions,
services and other hereditaments so to be given,
granted, bequeathed, or alienated to the said
master, wardens, and commonalty, and their
successors, by virtue of these presents do not
exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of
twenty pounds by year above all charges and
reprises ; the statute of lands and tenements
not to be put into mortmain, or any other thing,
cause, or matter whatsoever before this time
had, made, ordained, or provided to the con-
trary thereof in anywise notwithstanding:
And, moreover, we will and by these presents
for us, our heirs and successors, for the better
rule and government of all those which in our
City of London, and within three miles of the
said city, do profess and exercise and here-
after shall profess and exercise the art or
science of music, we give and grant to the said
TheCompanyto
master, wardens, and commonalty of the Art or have the control
Science of Musicians of London, and to their """ «''^""'"""
successors, that the said master and wardens.
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and Minstrels
in London and
witiiin 3 miles
thereof.
and their successors for the time being, at all
times to come shall have the survey, search,
of all Musicians Correction, and government of all and singular
musicians and minstrels within our said City of
London, or within the suburbs, liberties, and
precincts of the same city, or within three miles
of the same city, and within all liberties, fran-
chises, jurisdictions, and places, as well exempt
as not exempt, situate and being within the said
city, suburbs, and three miles of the same city :
Also we will and by these presents grant to the
said master, wardens, and commonalty of the
Art or Science of Musicians of London that they
may have and shall have these our letters patents
under our great seal of England in due manner
made and sealed without fine or fee, great or
small, to be yielded or paid unto us in the
Hanaper of our Chancery, or otherwise to our
use howsoever, albeit express mention of the
true yearly value or certainty of the premises,
or any of them, or of other gifts or grants by us
or any of our ancestors or progenitors before
this time made to the foresaid master, wardens,
and commonalty of the Art or Science of
Musicians of London be not mentioned in these
presents, or any statute, act, ordinance, provision,
This Charier
granted free
from fine or fee-
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proclamation, or restraint to the contrciry thereof
before this time had, made, ordained, or pro-
vided, or any other thing, cause, or matter
whatsoever in anywise notwithstanding. In
witness whereof we have caused these our letters
to be made patents. Witness ourself at West-
minster, the eighth day of July, in the second Dated
8th July, 1604.
year of our reign of England, France, and
Ireland ; and of Scotland the seven and
thirtieth.
By Writ of Privy Seal,
T. RAVENSCROFT.
BYELAWS:
Confirmed by the Lord Chancellor on
the 25th August 1606.
Taken from the contemporary copy in
the possession of the Company.
To all people to whom these presents shall
come, Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor
of England ; Thomas Earl Dorset, Lord Trea-
surer of England ; and Sir John Popham,
Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Pleas before
His Majesty to be holden, send greeting in our
Lord God everlasting. Whereas in a certain
Act or Statute in the Parliament holden at
Westminster the five and twentieth day of
January, in the nineteenth year of the reign of
the late King of famous memory after the
Conquest, Henry the Seventh, made and
ordained for the weal and profit of the sub-
jects, it was, amongst other things, ordained,
established, and enacted that no master,
wardens, or fellowships of crafts or mysteries.
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or any of them, nor any rulers of guilds or
fraternities should take upon them to make any
act or ordinance, or to execute any acts or ordi-
nances by them theretofore made, in disheritage
or diminution of the King's prerogative, or any
other, or against the common profit of the
people, but if the same acts and ordinances
were examined and approved by the Chancellor
Treasurer of England, the chief justices of either
bench, or three of them, or else before both the
justices of assize in their circuit or progress in
that shire where such acts or ordinances be
made, upon pain of forty pounds for every
time that they do the contrary, as in the said
Act of Parliament more plainly doth and may
appear. Know ye that Tristram Waters, master
of the Art or Science of Musicians of London,
and William Benton and Vincent Janvrin, now
wardens of the said art or science, with the
whole assent and consent of the assistants of
the same, willing and desiring the said Act of
Parliament in all and every thing to be duly
observed and kept, the first day of August, in
the year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord
James, by the Grace of God King of England,
France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, the
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Fourth, and of Scotland the Fortieth, have
exhibited a certain petition containing divers
articles for acts and ordinances for the better
rule and government of the Art or Science of
Musicians of London dwelling and inhabiting
or which hereafter shall dwell or inhabit in the
said city, the suburbs thereof, and within three
miles of the said city, in the Art or Science of
Musicians of London aforesaid, and for the com-
mon weal and conservation of the good estate
of the said Art or Science of Musicians, and
have instantly desired us that we all and every
their acts and ordinances hereafter mentioned
to us exhibited would examine and approve, and
those and every of them correct and amend in
due and convenient manner and form as the
said recited Act of Parliament requireth -. We
well perceiving and considering their said sup-
plication to be good and acceptable according
to their desires, and by authority of the said
Act of Parliament to us given, all and every their
acts and ordinances to us exhibited, have seen,
read, and well understood, and all and every of
them examined, corrected, and reformed, the
tenor whereof hereafter followeth : The Election
Imprimis, be it ordained that from henceforth, wapjens.
so
yearly, at the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-
angel, or within twenty days next after the same
feast, the master and wardens of the said Art
or Science of the Musicians of London, with
the assistants of the same fellowship, or the
greater part of them, shall from time to time
elect and choose out of the freemen of the said
Company one master and two wardens of the
same art and science to rule and govern the
same fellowship for one whole year then next
ensuing : And if any of the master or wardens
so chosen or to be chosen shall hapf)en to die or
for reasonable cause be removed or deprived
from his place and office within one year next
after he shall be so elected, that then, within
fourteen days next after such death, deprivation,
or removing of any of the said master or
wardens, one other or others of the freemen of
the said Company shall be in like sort elected
and chosen by the rest of the wardens and
assistants of the same fellowship to serve in the
place or stead of such of them as shall so happen
to die, be deprived, or removed until the Feast
of St. Michael the Archangel then next ensuing :
And the said master and wardens so newly
elected and chosen shall take a corporal path for
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ihe due execution of their offices and places in
manner and form hereafter prescribed, and
according to the limitation of the letters patents
granted to the said master, wardens, and com-
monalty by our now Sovereign Lord the King :
And whatsoever person or persons of the said
fellowship being chosen by the said wardens
and assistants, or the more part of them, to be
master or any of the wardens of the said art or
science, if he shall refuse to take upon him the
said office of master or warden and the charges
thereunto belonging, or to take the said oath,
being thereunto required, he shall then presently
pay to the commonalty and fellowship of the
said Art or Science of Musicians for his or their
refusal for every time he or they shall so refuse
the sum of five rciarks, to be levied of his or
their goods and chattels, and to be employed
as hereafter is specified. 2.
Item : be it ordained and established that, ''''"' Election ot
the Livery, etc-
according to the ancient custom of the City of
London, the master and wardens and assistants
of the foresaid Art or Science of Musicians of
London for the time being, and their successors,
may and shall elect and choose, at all such times
as shall seem good unto them, so many of the
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said fellowship into the livery and clothing of
the same fellowship as shall seem unto them
meet and convenient for the worship of the
said City and the credit of the said Art, Science,
and Commonalty of the Musicians of London :
And whatsoever person or persons of the said
science or fellowship shall be at any time here-
after enabled and called by the said master and
wardens and assistants for the time being, or by
the said master and wardens and eight of the
said assistants at the least, to be one of the livery
of the said fellowship, and of his obstinacy and
frowardness shall refuse and deny to take the
same upon him at the time appointed unto him
by the said master and wardens and assistants,
that then he so refusing shall forfeit and pay as
often as he so refuseth forty shillings ; and that
also all and every person and persons being
called and chosen into the assistants or livery as
aforesaid, and taking upon him or them the said
clothing, shall pay to the said master and
wardens of the said fellowship, to the use of the
said fellowship, twenty shillings at his admit-
tance.
3- Item: be it ordained that if any person or
Change of
Company. persons of the said Art, Science, or Fellowship
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of Musicians, of his own motion or frowardness,
or by the procurement of any other person or
persons, at any time hereafter shall go out of
the said fellowship to any other mystery, fellow-
ship, or occupation without the express consent
of the master, wardens, and assistants of the
fellowship of the said Art or Science of the
Musicians of London for the time being, or the
more part of them, in writing under their
common seal to be had and obtained, shall
forfeit and pay ten pounds of good and lawful
money, to be levied of his or their goods and
chattels.
4.
Item: be it ordained and established that Attendance
upon warning.
every person and persons of the said art or
science shall be obedient to all manner of lawful
summons and warnings given to him or them
in the master and wardens' names for the time
being by the beadle or other common of&cer of
the said art or science and commonalty, or other-
wise in the behalf of the said master and
wardens of the said art or science for the time
being, and shall be always ready to come and
shall come unto them in such lawful and decent
manner as he shall be assigned to do, at the hour
and place to him conveniently appointed, for
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such causes and matters, either concerning the
affairs of the King's Majesty, his heirs and
successors, Kings and Queens of this realm, or
the estate of the City of London, or anything
concerning the said art or science or any
brother or sister of the same fellowship, whereof
he shall have further knowledge at his coming,
or for the burial of a brother or sister of the
said fellowship ; and if he will not come upon
such warning, and in such manner, at his hour
and place appointed him, that then he shall
forfeit and pay for every default, for not keeping
his hour and place, twelve pence ; and if he shall
not come at all upon such warning to the place
of assembly while the master or wardens and
assistants shall be there together, but shall
wittingly absent himself without a reasonable
excuse, to be allowed of by the said master and
wardens, he shall forfeit and pay for every such
offence two shillings.
Item : be it ordained if any person or persons
the Science of of the said fellowship, art, or science, or any
MusiC'
other person whatsoever, shall use or exercise
the said Art or Science of Musicians, or any
faculty thereof, or make that any means toward
the getting of his living within the said City
5.
License to use
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of London and suburbs thereof, or three miles
compass of the said city, without the Hcense or
consent of the said master, wardens, and assist-
ants, or the more part of them, in writing under
their common seal first had and obtained, or
shall not observe and obey the orders to be set
down by the said master, wardens, and assist-
ants, or the more part of them, every one so
offending shall forfeit and pay such sum or sums
of money or fines as shall by the said master,
wardens, and assistants, or the more part of
them, be imposed upon them for every such
offence, so as the same exceed not the sum of
forty shillings.
Item : it is also ordained that the master and Quarter and
wardens of the said Art or Science of Musicians
of London for the time being shall or may yearly
keep four quarter days in the year; and also
within every quarter of the year quarterly for
ever two other courts or assemblies, or more if
need so require, at their common hall or other
convenient place of meeting, as well for reforma-
tion of the defaults or abuses used in the said
art or science as to hear the complaints of all
such as shall find themselves grieved con-
cerning the same, and determine thereof accord-
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ing to their knowledge, wisdoms, and discre-
tions ; all which quarter days, courts, and
assemblies shall be kept at convenient times to
be appointed at the discretion of the said master
and wardens of the said art or science for the
time being: And every brother or widow of
the same art or science shall pay for quarterage
at every of the said quarter days quarterly for
ever sixpence : And if any of the said master
and wardens absent themselves and come not
unto the common hall of the said fellowship at
every such quarter day, and to every of the said
other courts or assemblies, or if they shall not
keep every of the said courts or assemblies ac-
cording to the times or in form abovesaid, that
then for so doing or neglecting to do as aforesaid
he or they shall forfeit at every time in the name
of a pain five shillings, without a reasonable
excuse proved and allowed by and before the re-
sidue of the said master, wardens, and assistants
of the said art or science, or the more part of
them : And also every one of the said assistants
that shall be at any time hereafter lawfully
warned to come to such day and place appointed
for the said courts and shall make default shall
forfeit and pay for every such default, without
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a reasonable excuse proved and allowed by and
before the said master and wardens, two shillings
and sixpence.
7.
Item : be it ordained that no person of the Ajiinst reviling,
said fellowship shall unseemly revile, rebuke, °'°'
smite, or abuse any brother of the same fellow-
ship, either by facing, bracing, evil reproaching,
or affraying, in the presence of the said master
and wardens or elsewhere, nor in anywise dis-
order or misbehave him or themselves toward
the master or wardens of the said fellowship,
nor to any other of the said fellowship, upon
pain to forfeit for every such offence forty
shillings.
8.
Item : be it ordained if any person or persons Against
that do or shall use the said art or science shall, »"pp'»"'"«
at any time or times, in any place, by any means,
directly or indirectly, supplant, defeat, or put
out, or wittingly practice to supplant, defeat,
or put out, any musician free of the said fellow-
ship, being first hired or spoken to to serve at
any triumphs, marriages, revels, feasts, dinners,
suppers, banquets, meetings, guilds, or brother-
hoods, or for any such like occasions, to the
hindrance of any brother of the said fellowship
that was formerly bespoken, that then every
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person so offending shall forfeit and pay for
such offence forty shillings, and suffer imprison-
ment of his or their bodies till he or they do
pay the same.
Apposers. Moreover, be it ordained that the master and
wardens of the said art or science, or such other
discreet and skilful persons of the said Company
as for the time being shall be by the said master
and wardens assigned or appointed, shall and
may at all times hereafter, so often as they shall
think needful and requisite, call before them to
the common hall of the said Company, or to
such other convenient place of meeting as the
said master and wardens or the parties by them
assigned shall appoint, all persons, as well free
of the said fellowship as all others, which do or
shall use or exercise the said Art or Science of
Musicians, or the teaching of music or dancing,
or any faculty belonging to the said art or science
of musicians or music, and used for their main-
tenance, gain, or living within the City of London,
and in the liberties thereof or within three
miles of the same city, and there to examine,
approve, and allow the said parties and every
of them for their sufficiency and skill in the
said art or science, or to reject and disallow of
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any pairty for his insufficiency and want of skill ;
and that no person or persons, whether he be
master, servant, or apprentice, so called before
the said master and wardens, or before the
parties by them assigned, and being by them
disallowed as insufficient and unfit, shall pre-
sume to use or exercise the said art or science,
thereby to make any gain or have any reward
for the same, until he shall afterwards be
allowed, upon pain to forfeit for every time he
shall so offend the sum of twenty shillings :
And it is ordained that if the said master or Against
wardens, or their deputies, shall find any abuse '°°'' "^'
or disorder used or practised in the said art or
science, or any the faculties or qualities afore-
said, within the limits aforesaid, to the slander,
hurt, or prejudice of the said art or science, or
shall find any foreigner to use or practise the
said art or science within the freedoms and liber-
ties of the said city, or three miles compass of
the same ; or if any person summoned or Wcurned
to appear at the said common hall or other
convenient place of meeting to be examined,
apposed, approved, allowed, or disallowed as
aforesaid shall refuse to appear or obey what
shall be done and set down by the said master
11.
Qnarteraee.
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and wardens, or the persons that by them shall
be assigned, that then all and every such person
and persons so offending shall forfeit and pay
to the said master and wardens and commonalty
for every such offence twenty shillings, and shall
suffer imprisonment of his and their bodies, at
the discretion of the said master and wardens :
And that the same penalty of twenty shillings
for every offence cormnitted by any apprentice
or servant contrary to this ordinance or the
ordinance next preceding with the privity and
allowance of his or their master, shall be levied
and paid of and by the master of the said
servant or apprentice.
Item : it is ordained that all persons not being
free of the said Company that shall use or exer-
cise the said art or science, or any faculty or
quality touching and concerning the same,
toward the getting of his or their living within
the said city or liberties thereof, and all others
allowed to use the same within three miles of
the said city, and getting his or their living
thereby to their own use, shall forfeit and pay to
the said master, wardens, and commonalty at
the four quarter days, at or in their common
hall or other convenient place in that behalf
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assigned, sixpence quajterly : And if any of
them shall fail to present themselves or pay the
said quarterage at the said common hall or other
place aforesaid at the said quarter days, having
such sufficient warning thereof as the freemen
of the said Company are to have, then he or
they so failing shall forfeit and pay for every
such default one shilling, except he show such
reasonable cause in excuse of his default as shall
be allowed of by the said master and wardens.
12
Item : it is ordained that all and every persons presenting
free of the said commonalty that shall entertain Apprentices
or take any apprentice shall, at the assembly
of the said master and wardens at the court or
quarter day next and immediately after the
sealing of the indentures to be made between
them, present the same his apprentice to and
before the master and wardens of the said Art
or Science of Musicians of London for the time
being, to the intent the same master and
wardens may have due examination of the said
apprentice whether he be free born or not, and
to see that he be clean and whole limbed ; also
to know what age he is of, and, further, to imder-
stand the number of years that the said appren-
tice shall serve, and when the same shall begin
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and end ; and that every master shall pay to
the master and wardens and commonalty of the
said art or science two shillings sixpence for the
presentment of every such apprentice, according
to the ancient custom of the said city ; and that
every person that shall do contrary to this
ordinance shall pay for every time offending
twenty shillings.
Number of Item : it is ordaincd and established that
from henceforth no person or persons whatso-
ever that now or hereafter shall be master or
wardens of the said Art or Science of Musicians
of London shall take, have, or keep above two
apprentices using the said art or science at any
one time : And that none other person or persons
of the same art or science not being or having
been warden of the said Company shall either
take, have, or keep above one apprentice at once
using the said art or science tmtil the said
apprentice hath served with his master unto the
last half year of the term of his apprenticeship
mentioned in his indenture, and then the same
master may take one other apprentice : And
that no person or persons which are not free of
the said commonalty that do or shall use the
said art or science within this city or the liberties
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thereof, or within three miles of the same city,
shall at any time hereafter, directly or indirectly,
have, take, or retain to be brought up in the said
art or science any more apprentices than only
one apprentice at one time, unless the master of
such apprentice shall have continually used the
same art or science to his own use for his main-
tenance and living by the space of fourteen
years after the expiration of his term of appren-
ticehood : In which case it shall be lawful for
any such person to have and keep two appren-
tices at one time, and not above ; and that every
person which shall offend against the true
meaning of this act shall forfeit and pay the sum
of twenty shillings for every month that he shall
continue the keeping of any such apprentice.
Item : it is ordained that no person using the Against abuse
said Art or Science of Musicians of London, or si„ging,
any quality or faculty of dancing, shall teach,
keep, or play, nor haunt, exercise, or use, any
dancing in any school of dancing upon any
Sabbath Days within the said city or liberties
thereof, or within three miles of the same city,
upon pain to forfeit for every such offence forty
shillings.
Neither shall any person sing any ribaldry,
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wanton, or lascivious songs or ditties at any
time or place within the City of London or
liberties thereof, or within three miles of the
same city, whereby God may be dishonoured,
or any slander or infamy may arise or be given
of or to the said science, upon pain that every
person offending against the true meaning of
this branch of this act shall forfeit for his oifence
ten shillings, and suffer imprisonment of his or
their bodies for such convenient time as shall
be thought fit by the discretion of the master
and wardens of the same society for the time
being.
Ordering of Item : it is ordained that no person or persons
the end oj their '^^ the Said scicnce or fellowship from henceforth
shall present any of his apprentices before the
Chamberlain of London, or his deputy, to be
made free of the said city after his years be
expired, until he have presented his said appren-
tice before the master, wardens, and assistants of
the said Art or Science of Musicians of London,
or the more part of them, for the time being at
their common hall or meeting place to be
examined of his service and continuance of the
same : And if upon due proof, as in such case is
used, it shall appear unto the said master and
15.
term.
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wardens that the said apprentice hath duly
served and continued as an apprentice during
the term of his years, as in such case is used, then
the same apprentice to submit himself to the
rules and ordinances of the same fellowship in
maimer and form hereafter specified, and then
to lay down and pay for his admission to the
said master and wardens three shillings and
fourpence : And after that the same master
and wardens shall present the same late appren-
tice before the said chamberlain, or his deputy,
for the time being, and thereupon shall cause the
said late apprentice to be admitted into the
said society and into the freedom of the said
city, upon pain to every master of such appren-
tice doing contrary to this ordinance to forfeit
for every such offence forty shillings.
And it is further ordained that if hereafter seiiing
any person or persons of the said Art or Science App""""^-
of Musicians of London, being a freeman of the
said commonalty, or any other using or that shall
use the said art, science, faculties, and quahties
aforesaid, or any of them, within the said city
and liberties, or within three miles compass
thereof, having an apprentice bound unto him
in the science or mystery aforesaid, be minded
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and will sell the term of years of the same
his apprentice to any other man of the same
art or science, or to any other, that
then he shall first bring the same his
apprentice to and before the master and
wardens of the said Art or Science of Musicians
of London for the time being that they may
note and write the selling and turning over .of
the same apprentice in their hall book : And the
master that so shall make sale of his apprentice
shall forfeit and pay two shillings ; and that
every person of the said art or science that shall
offend contrary tO' this ordinance shall pay for
every such offence twenty shillings.
17.
Playing under Item: it is Ordained and established that no
windows. person or persons free of the said art or science,
or any their servants or apprentices, or any
other person or persons professing the said art or
science, or any their servants or apprentices,
either in consort or otherwise, shall at any time
or times hereafter play upon any kind of instru-
ment or instruments, either evening or morning,
at or under any nobleman, knight, or gentleman's
window or lodging in the street, or the window
or lodging of any other person or persons what-
soever within the City of London, suburbs,
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liberties, and precincts aforesaid, without license
and leave of the master, wardens, and eight
of the assistants at the least of the said Art or
Science of Musicians of London for the time
being, upon pain that the master of every such
servant or apprentice shall forfeit and pay for
every person so offending and for every time
that he or they shall so offend the sum of three
shillings and fourpence.
1 8-
Item : it is likewise ordained and established ordering of
that no person or persons free of the said Art Consorts,
or Science of Musicians, nor any their servants
or apprentices, nor any other person or persons
using or exercising the said art or science, or
any their apprentices or servants whatsoever,
shall play at any weddings, feasts, banquets,
revels, or other assemblies or meetings within the
City of London, suburbs, or precincts aforesaid,
under the number of four, in consort or with
violins, upon pain that the master of every such
servant or apprentice shall forfeit and pay for
every person, servant, and apprentice, and for
every time he or they shall offend contrary to
this ordinance, the sum of three shillings and
fourpence. i9.
Item : it is ordained and established that the O''''"'"^ "'
Leases.
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master and wardens of the said Art or Science
of Musicians of London for the time being shall
not at any time hereafter demise, grant, let, or
set any lands or tenements which shall here-
after belong to the Company of the said Art or
Science of Musicians of London to any person
or persons by lease for term of years or other-
wise, nor shall receive any fine or fines or
incomes, nor shall do any act whatsoever which
shall bind, charge, or hinder the said Company,
and the master, wardens, and commonalty
thereof, without the special agreement, will,
consent, and assent of all the assistants of the
same Company for the time being, or of eight
of the same assistants at the least, and of the
same master and wardens, upon pain of for-
feiture of twenty pounds for every time they or
any of them shall do contrary to the meaning
of this ordinance .- And that all and every
demise, grant, act and acts hereafter to be made,
procured, or done by the master or wardens to
the contrary shall be utterly void and of no
force.
20.
Neeiigence of Item : it is Ordained that if hereafter the
master and wardens of the said Art or Science
of Musicians for the time being, or any of them.
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during the time of their continuance in their
office, shall be found partial, remiss, negligent,
or not indifferent in executing any of the said
acts or ordinances comprised in this book, or else
shall favour any person or persons in his or their
offences, or for meed, favour, affection, or dread
shall not execute the said ordinances and every
of them indifferently to and upon every person
after their offences according to the meaning
of this book and the ordinances herein com-
prised, that then, upon a due proof thereof had
before the other wardens and the assistants
of the said art or science for the time being,
or before the other wardens and eight of the
same assistants at the least, every person so
found partial, negligent, or not indifferent as is
aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every time
so offending forty shillings, more or less, at the
discretion of the other wardens and of the said
assistants.
21.
Item: it is ordained that the master and Account,
wardens of the said Art or Science of Musicians
of London for the time being, and their succes-
sors master and wardens of the said art or
science for ever, shall, within one month next
and immediately after the expiration of their
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office of wardenship and the admission and oath
of the new master and wardens that shall supply
their place, make and yield up yearly unto the
same new master and wardens for the time
being, and to the assistants of the same company
or fellowship or eight of the same assistants at
the least, a true, whole, plain, and perfect
account, payment and delivery of all and all
manner sums of money and of all other things
whatsoever which have been delivered unto
them, or otherwise by any whatsoever means
come or ought tO' come tO' the hands, possession,
order, or custody of them, or any of them, to
the use of the commonalty of the said Art or
Science of the Musicians of London during the
year of their office and charge, and of the office
and charge of every or any of them, upon pain
to forfeit and pay at every time for doing con-
trary to this ordinance ten pounds.
22.
Auditors. Item: it is also ordained that every year,
yearly, against the foresaid day of account to
be made to the new master and wardens of the
said Art or Science of Musicians of London for
the time being by them that last were in the
same office before, there shall be chosen by the
same new master and wardens, with the advice
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of the said assistants, four or more to audit,
hear, try, and examine the same account, which
auditors shall be chosen out of the foresaid
assistants of the said art or science ; and such
person or persons being chosen as aforesaid
which shall refuse to take upon him or them the
said office of auditor shall forfeit and pay every
of them five shillings.
*= 23.
Item : it is ordained and established that all Disposition of
fines.
and every of the same penalties, fines, amercia-
ments, forfeitures, and sums of money by these
ordinances limited and appointed to be taxed,
forfeited, or paid shall be sued for, levied, and
recovered by the said master, wardens, and
fellowship to the use of the said master, wardens,
commonalty, and fellowship of the said Art or
Science of the Musicians of London, to be
employed by the said master and wardens of the
said art or science for the time being in and
about the relief of the poor of the commonalty
and fellowship of the said Art or Science of the
Musicians of London, and to the sustentation of
the charge to be borne by the master, wardens,
and commonalty of the said art or science in the
common occasions of the said Company: And
if any person or persons, of his or their froward
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disposition or otherwise, shall hereafter refuse
or deny to pay in good and lawful money of
England any quarterages, penalties, fines, forfeit-
ures, or other amerciaments whatsoever, set or
assessed, or to be set or assessed, upon him or
them, that then it shall be lawful to the said
master and wardens, and their successors
master and wardens of the said art or science,
to command and commit all and every such
person and persons to ward until he shall agree
with the master and wardens for the time being
for his contempt and misbehaviour in that
behalf, and have paid the same : Provided
always that the said master, wardens, and assist-
ants for the time being, by their discretions, may
mitigate, diminish, or abate the said forfeitures,
penalties, and amerciaments, or any of them, as
the case shall require, according to equity and
good conscience : Provided also that these acts
or ordinances, or anything herein contained,
shall not in anj^vise extend or be construed to
extend unto the King's Majesty's musicians in
ordinary being not free of the said commonalty
of the musicians of London, anything herein
contained or expressed to the contrary in any-
wise notwithstanding.
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24.
Item : it is ordained that all and every person Submission to
1 • (• 1 r 11 r ''" orders.
and persons, being of the full age or 2i years,
which now are or hereafter shall be of the said
Art or Science of Musicians of London, now
using or exercising or which hereafter shall use
or exercise the said art or science, as well masters
as journeymen and apprentices, and every of
them, within the places and precincts aforesaid,
shall, upon reasonable warning and monition to
them given personally, appear at the common
hall, at the time and times for that purpose ap-
pointed, before the said master, wardens, and
assistants, or the greater part of them, and then
and there shall in willing and obedient manner,
under their hands, submit themselves and yield
their consents to the true and due performance
of all and singular the ordinances, laws, constitu-
tions, and orders above in these presents, upon
and under the pains in them and every of them
mentioned, specified, contained, and set down.
Ye shall swear that ye shall be true to our me Masier and
Sovereign Lord the King, and to his heirs and '^"''"'' °''"'
successors Kings and Queens of the realm of
England : And that you and every of you,
effectually and diligently, during the time and
season you shall be or remain in your said office,
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shall, as far forth as you lawfully and conveni-
ently may, see to and keep the said Art and
Science of the Musicians in good order and rule,
and execute your office in every case thereunto
appertaining truly, justly, and indifferently. So
help you God, and by the contents of this Book.
The Assistants' Ye shall swear that ye shall always, in what
lawfully and conveniently you may, to your
power faithfully aid and assist the master and
wardens of the Art or Science of Musicians of
London for the time being, and every of them,
as well in the execution of the rules and ordi-
nances made and ratified for the good order
and government of the said art as in all other
affairs whatsoever concerning the same cirt. Good
and faithful counsel to the best of your know-
ledge from time to time shall ye give unto them.
You shall not procure nor consent that the lands,
revenues or goods of the foresaid Company
shall be inordinately spent, consumed, or em-
bezzled, but to the best of your skill and power
ye shall the same let and withstand. So help
you God, and by the contents of this Book.
The Ratification All which acts. Ordinances, constitutions, and
oaths in manner and form aforesaid, as well at
the request of the said Tristram Waters, now
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master of the said Art or Science of Musicians of
London, and of the said WilHam Benton and
Vincent Janvrin, now wardens, and the com-
monalty of the same, by the authority and virtue
of the same Act of Parhament made in the
nineteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, we,
the said Chancellor, Treasurer, and Chief Justice
aforesaid, have seen, perused, read, examined,
and approved, and for good, laudable, and lawful
ordinances, constitutions, and oaths we do allow
and approve. In witness whereof to these
presents we, the said Lord Chancellor, Lord
Treasurer, and Chief Justice, have subscribed
our names and set our seals, the five and
twentieth day of August, in the fourth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord James, by the
grace of God King of England, France, and
Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of Scotland
the fortieth.
Ye shall swear that ye shall be faithful and xheOathofs
true to our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, freeman
and to his heirs and successors Kings and Queens
of England; ye shall not do nor consent
to be done any treasons or felonies, but all such
as you shall know ye shall duly to your power
1^
do to be revealed and known to the King or
his Council : And ye shall be obedient unto the
master and wardens of the Art or Science of
Musicians of London for the time being in all
things concerning the same art and science,
being agreeable to the ordinances of the said art
and customs of the City of London, and shall
come duly and truly upon every lawful sum-
mons to any assembly to be made for any matter
or cause to be treated and communed upon by
the master, wardens, and assistants of the said
art or science, except ye reasonably or lawfully
be letted, or else to pay such penalties and fines
as ye shall forfeit by reason of your default : And
also ye shall be at all times contributory to all
manner of charges done or to be done by them
in and about the weal and continuance of the
said art or science to your power : Also well
and truly after your power ye shall in all things
obey, keep, and observe all the acts and ordi-
nances made for the governance and good order
of the said art and science, and confirmed
according to the laws and statutes of this realm
in that case provided. So help ye God, and by
the contents of this Book.
Item : be it ordained if any person or persons
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of the said fellowship, art, or science, or any For not
. _ . - - covering of
other person, either free or not free, whatsoever, instruments,
that shall use or exercise the said art or science
of music or musicians, or any faculty thereof,
shall go himself, or suffer his. servant or appren-
tice to go, in any open street within this city or
liberties thereof, or within three miles of the
same city, from house to house with any instru-
ment or instruments uncased or uncovered in
any part, to be seen by any passing by, upon
pain of forfeiture of twelve pence for every such
offence.
Item : be it ordained that if any person or Against playing
persons of the Art, Science, or Fellowship of
Musicians, or any other person whatsoever that
shall use the said Art or Science of Musicians
within this city or liberties thereof, shall by
themselves, their servants, or apprentices play
upon or with any instrument, or use the said art
or science of music or any other thing concern-
ing the same in consort or any other kind of
instruments whatsoever of or with any foreigner
or foreigners, their servants, or apprentices,
within the city or liberties thereof and not else-
where, upon pain to forfeit and pay for every
such offence three shillings and fourpence.
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For government Item : be it Ordained if ciny person or persons,
of goers abroad. . r i a o •
free or foreign of the Art, Science, or Fellowship
of Musicians, shall suffer their servants or appren-
tices to serve by themselves with any music
within this city or liberties thereof, or three miles
of the same, at any feasts, banquets, weddings,
huntsup, or at cuiy other assemblies, triumphs, or
occasions, either to go abroad in the streets or
to play at any taverns, victualling houses, or
any other place whatsoever, except they do go
in or with the company of two freemen at the
least well and sufficiently exercised and experi-
enced in the said art or science of music, whereof
one to be the master of some one of the said
apprentices or servants ; As also foreigners
without the city and liberties and within the
three miles of the same city shall in like manner
observe the same orders as the freemen of the
same city doth, whereby they may be the better
guided and directed in that science for the laud,
honour, and commendation thereof; and that
the freeman or foreigner being master of the
said apprentice or servant shall himself, or the
other freeman or foreign master, offer and pre-
sent the music, and not any other his apprentice
or servant, upon pain to forfeit for every offence
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contrary to this act three shillings and four-
pence.
Item: be it also ordained that if any person An Act against
. • 1 A n ■ unlawful games.
or persons professing the said Art, bcience, or
Fellowship of Musicians of the City of London
or the liberties thereof, or three miles of the same
city, shall at any time hereafter by any means,
directly or indirectly, by himself or wittingly
know or suffer his servant or apprentice to use
or practice any manner of unlawful games at
any time or in any place with any freeman's
servants or apprentices, either of the said art or
science or being free of any other company
whatsoever, or any foreigners, within three miles
of this city, shall in anywise or by any means
countenance him or them therein, upon pain of
forfeiture of every such offence being justly
proved against them or him, shall for every
time he or they shall so offend forfeit and pay
to the master and wardens and commonalty ten
shillings, or suffer imprisonment of his or their
bodies till he or they have paid the same.
It is also ordained and established, consented. Not to arrest
, , , .. , . without license.
and agreed that if hereafter any person of the
said art or science be grieved with any other
person of the same art or science, that then he
8o
that is so grieved shall first complain to the
master and wardens of the said Art or Science
of Musicians of London for the time being, and
show his cause of grief unto them without any
his further complaint, to the intent that the same
master and wardens may understand the same
and the circumstances thereof, and thereupon
to take order for good agreement, peace, and
concord to be had between the said parties,
according to the right, equity, and good con-
science, either by mutual agreement of the
parties themselves or else by way of arbitra-
ment : And also that no person of the said art
or science maintain any matters or quarrels
against or between any persons of the same art
or science, nor that any of the same art or science
shall arrest, sue, or molest any other of the said
art or science for any matter of controversy, evil
words, or debt not exceeding ten pounds, before
such time as the master and wardens of the
said art or science for the time being do give
licence unto the same parties to enter into the
law, if reasonable order cannot be by them
therein taken, upon pain that every person that
shall do contrary to the intent and meaning
hereof shall pay for every such offence twenty
shilhngs.
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It is also enacted, ordered, consented, and An Act tor the
choice of
decreed that there shall be chosen every year stewards,
two stewards, to provide for one whole year
upon the four quarter days four dinners for the
master, wardens, and assistants of the said Com-
pany, unto which charge it is also enacted,
ordered, consented, and agreed that every assist-
ant that shall come to every or any of the said
dinners shall contribute and pay to the stewards
towards the charge of the said quarter dinners
twelve pence : And also it is further enacted,
ordered, consented, and agreed that every person
refusing to hold steward as aforesaid shall pay
unto this Company the sum of forty shillings for
his fine for every time that he shall so refuse
the same stewardship, being thereunto chosen
by the master, wardens, and assistants, or the
greater part of them : And it is further ordered,
consented, and agreed that the said four quarter
dinners, and every of them, shall be from time
to time kept and held at such place as the
master and wardens for the time being shall
think fit, meet, and convenient, and shall nomi-
nate the same place unto them the said
stewards.
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SDije ^rms of t!je (fCompans.t
The Arms of the Company granted by Camden,
15th October, 1604, and approved by Sir Henry St.
George Richmond, 1634. — Philip Pikeman being
Master, Walter Clarke and Philip Janvrin, Wardens,
and Nicholas Pinny, Clerk.
Arms: — Azure within a double tressure flory
counterflory Or a Swan rousant Argent, on a chief
Gules a Pale between two Lions passant guardant
of the second thereon a Rose of the fourth barbed
vert and seeded gold.
Crest : — On a wreath of the colours An ancient
Lyre Or.
The following is an extract from the " The Epistle
Dedicatorie " in ' The Principles of Musik, etc.,' by
" Charls Butler Magd. Mafter of Arts," published in
London, 1636 : —
"*Hence is it, that the learnedft of Kings (your moft
" Noble Progenitor) hath graced the Profeffors of this
" profound Myftery, with an Emblematicall Coat of
"Armes: and made them a free Company of the great
" Citti, or third Univerfiti."
to which is attached the following note.
"*This is recorded by S"" George Buck
" (Gentleman of the Kings privi Chamber) in his
" Treatice of the third Vniver/iti, annexed unto Stows
" Chronicle. Cap. 38.
' ' In this third Vniverfiti ar the beft Muficians of
" this kingdom : and equall to any in Europ for their
' ' skill, either in Compofing and Setting ; or in Singing
'•' and Flaying upon any kinde of Muficall Inftrume7its .
" whereupon it foUoweth,
" The Muficians have obteined of the King Letters
'■'■patents., for a Societi and Corporation. And, for
'■'■their Arms, they bare Azure, a Swan Argent,
" within a treffure Counterflour Or : and, in a chief
" Gules, a Rofe between two L'yons Or. And, for
" their Creft, the Signe called, by the Aftronomers, the
" Orphean Lyre."
t See Frontispiece.
ACT OF COMMON COUNCIL
Relative to Musicians and Dancing
Masters, Ilth September, 1700.
Whereas the Master, Wardens, Assistants and
Commonalty of the Art or Science of Music in
the City of London freemen of the said City,
have been an ancient Brotherhood and Com-
pany, and whereas by the ancient custom of
the City of London (confirmed by divers Acts of
ParHament) no person not being a freeman of
the said City ought to use or exercise any Art
occupation or Mystery for lucre or gain within
the said City and liberties thereof. Notwith-
standing which many persons as well aliens, as
other foreigners to the said City, do take upon
them to teach, practise and exercise the Arts of
Music and dancing; and also keep Public
Schools in Halls and other places within this
City and the liberties thereof, and do publicly
use, exercise and teach the art, mystery or
occupation of dancing, not being free of this
City, nor Member of any Company or fraternity
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and so not subject to any of the rules or govern-
ment of the same. Whereby debauchery and
many disorders are much promoted and in
danger of being committed, and the youth of
the City much abused in their education, to the
great dishonour of the good government of this
City. And whereas the dancing masters have
of ancient times, and for many years past, been
under the rule, inspection and government of
the Company of Musicians ; but being under no
obligation to be free, or members of the same,
the Company hath no power to correct or punish
the abuses by them committed. For remedy
and redress whereof for the future, and to the
intent the aforesaid inconveniences and mis-
chiefs may be prevented for a time to come, and
that the said Company may have the oversight
and punishment of all offences committed by
any of the members professing and keeping of
schools for teaching of music or dancing within
this City and liberties thereof for the future.
Be it enacted, ordained and established, by
the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men and Commons of the City of London in
Common Council assembled, and by the
authority of the same, that an Act of this Court,
8s
made the eleventh day of September, in the
Mayoralty of Sir Wm. Ashurst, Knight and
Lord Mayor of this City, relating to the said
Musicians and Dancing Masters, and every
clause, matter and thing therein contained, shall
be and is hereby absolutely repealed and made
void ; and be it further enacted and ordained
that all and every person or persons, using,
practising or exercising, or which shall here-
after use, practise, exercise or teach, the arts,
mysteries or occupations of music or dcincing,
or either of them for lucre or gain within the
City of London or liberties thereof, who hath
already served an apprenticeship in the said
arts and mysteries, or in either of them, and not
yet made free of this City, and having a right
to his freedom in any other company within this
City. And also cdl and every other person or
persons, using, exercising or teaching the said
arts or either of them, for lucre or gain as afore-
said, who shall procure his freedom of this City by
redemption shall be made free of the said Com-
pany of Musicians ; and if any such person shall
be made free of any other company by patri-
mony or service, and shall exercise the said
arts, mysteries or occupations, or either of them
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for lucre or gain, that then all and every such
person and persons so doing and offending, in
all, or any, or either of the said cases, shall
forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum
of forty shillings of lawful money of England.
And be it ftxrther enacted by the authority
aforesaid that from and after the twenty-fifth
day of December, 1700, if any person or persons
not being free of the said City and Company,
nor free of the said City and any other Com-
pany within the said same City shall for lucre
or gain, publicly use, exercise or teach the, said
arts, mysteries or occupations, or either of them
within the said City or liberties thereof; that
then all and every such person or persons so
doing or offending shall forfeit and pay for
every such offence the sum of four pounds of
lawful money of England. And be it further
enacted and ordained by the authority afore-
said, that all dancing masters and musicians
as shall take apprentices or servants to teach
them the said arts, or either of them, and all
others that are free of the said Company shall
from henceforth bind their servant and
servants apprentice and apprentices in the said
Company to a freeman thereof under the
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penalty of forty shillings for every apprentice
he shall bind in any other Company. And no
freeman of the said Company shall teach and
instruct any such intended apprentice in the
said arts or either of them above the space of
three months before he be bound an apprentice
to a freeman of the said Company as aforesaid
under the like penalty of forty shillings. All
which pains, penalties, forfeitures, sum and sums
of money to be forfeited by this Act shall be
recovered by action of debt, bill or plaint,
to be commenced and prosecuted in the
name of the Chamberlain of the City
of London for the time being in some
one of His Majesties Courts of Record
within the said City, and that the Chamberlain
of the said City for the time being in all such
suits to be prosecuted by virtue of this present
Act against any offender, shall recover his
ordinary costs of suit to be expended in and
about the prosecution of the same. And be it
further enacted by the authority aforesaid that
one moiety of all forfeitures to be recovered by
virtue of this Act (the costs of suit for the
recovery of the same being first deducted and
allowed), after recovery and receipt thereof,
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shall be from time to time peiid into the
Chamber of the City of London for the
use of the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens
of the said City of London, and the other
moiety to the Master Wardens and Assistants
of the said Company for the time being for the
use of the poor of the said Company. And be
it further enacted by the authority aforesaid.
That no person or persons, using, practising or
exercising for lucre or gain the said arts,
mysteries and occupations of music and dancing,
or either of them, who shall have a right by
patrimony or service, shall from henceforth be
admitted by the Chamberlain of this City into
the freedom thereof, in any other Company than
the said Company of Musicizms. And that the
said Chamberlain shall not admit any using or
exercising the said arts of music or dancing
for lucre or gain, commonly known by the name
of musicians or dancing masters into the free-
dom of this City, until such persons are first
admitted into the freedom of the said Company
of Musicians any usage or custom to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
Journal 53, fos. 358-9,
THE BEADLE'S MACE.
Presented by RICHARD LOYDE, Master of the Company in 1726.
To face page J
LAWS AND ORDERS
of
THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF
MUSICIANS*
The Charter of Incorporation was granted by
King James I. July 8. anno 1604, and Bye Laws
confirmed by the Lord Chancellor, 25 th August,
1606, upon which the following Articles or
Extracts are made and established for the
Government of the Master, Wardens, and Com-
monalty of MUSICIANS of London, who may
have a legal Seal for Despatch of Business.
I. The Master and Wardens shall be chosen Election o(
Master and
yearly on the Feast of St. Michael the Arch- wardens,
angel, or within twenty days after the same;
and upon any refusal to hold either of the said
Offices and take the Oath prescribed, the refus-
ing Party shall forfeit Three Pounds Six °"'."' ""
° •' refusing,
Shillings and Eightpence. In Case of Death ^^ es. sd.
or Removal others are to be elected in their
Stead.
• Reprinted from a book issued by the Company in 1825.
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Election of
Assistants.
Refusing to
serve» each
time, 40s.
Two years'
Non-Attend-
ence deemed
a Resignation-
II. The Court of Assistants to consist of not
less than Thirteen Members, or more than
Twenty, to be chosen by the Court ; and upon
Resignation or Demise, others are to be elected ;
and upon Refusal to serve, the offending Party
is to pay a fine of Forty Shillings, as often as he
refuseth. The said Assistants, upon neglecting
to attend the Duties of the Office for Two Years
successively, are to be considered as having re-
signed, and new Members are to be chosen in
their Room.
Cal] upon
the Livery
Fine ;£IS 15s.
Refusing
each Time,
40s.
III. The Master and Wardens, and Eight
Assistants, may call so many Freemen of the
Company upon the Livery, as shall seem unto
them meet and convenient for the Worship of
the City, and Credit of the Art. And every
Freeman taking upon him the Cloathing, shall
pay a fine of Fifteen Pounds Fifteen Shillings,
including all Charges. Every person who shall
obstinately and frowardly refuse to take the
Cloathing, shall, every Time he offends, forfeit
Forty Shillings.
N.B. Such Members who have paid a Part
only of Fifteen Pounds Fifteen Shillings, are
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still liable to the Payment of the Remainder of
the Fine.
IV. Any Person who shall, of his own motion g^^ ^^^ Law,
or Frowardness, desire or demand to be trans- '^''"■"i'le "
to £15 15s
lated to any other Company, shall forfeit and foUo 9.
pay Ten Pounds, which may be levied on his
Goods or Chattels.
V. Four Quarterly Courts are to be held in p^^^ q^,^.
every Year for ever ; viz. : in the Months of "■''>' Courts
January, April, July and October (or more, if
Occasion shall require), for reforming Defaulters
and Abuses in the said Science. Master and Master and
Wardens not attending forfeit Five Shillings ; [^"^(^"ss.
Assistants Two Shillings and Sixpence : the
same on every other Court Day.
N.B. The Second Wednesday after every
Quarter Day is fixed for holding Courts, and Six
Days previous Notice by Summons is to be
issued.
VI. Every Member of the Company not p^^,,^,, j^
appearing upon Summons at the Hour ""■ ^^^
appointed, shall forfeit One Shilling ; if he does
not appear at all. Two Shillings for every
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Offence ; and every Member is required to pay
Sixpence per Quarter.
VII. All the Accounts of the Company are
to be Audited at every Quarterly Court by four
Members, made up annually, and yielded to the
new Master and Wardens.
Common VIII. By the Act of Lord Mayor and
Council and „ - „ ., , , i -r^ i
Charter Common Council, dated nth December, i;!00,
Grant con- relative to Musicians and Dancing Masters it is
solidated.
enacted that all Musical and Dancing Men, play-
ing for Hire in the City of London and Liber-
ties (the King's Musicians excepted), shall take
upon them the Freedom thereof, and in the
Company of MUSICIANS, and none other, con-
otfenders £.\. formable to the said Act. Offenders herein
forfeit Four Pounds, and may be sued in the
Name of the Chamberlain.
Power of
Court of
Assistants.
IX. Masters and Wardens, the Court of
Assistants (not less than Eight) may purchase,
demise, grant, possess or sell Lands, Tenements,
etc., for Term of Years; may execute Deeds,
make Laws or Ordinances for Rule and good
Government; may sue in any Court of Law;
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plead, or be impleaded; answer and defend;
may inflict Pains and Punishments on offenders.
All Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures re- pingg ,„ ^^
covered, shall be applied to the Use of the Poor ^^^^^Vot
of the Company ; the Sustenation and Charge the poor,
of the Recovery to be borne by the Master and
Court.
ORDERING APPRENTICES.
X. A Master on taking an Apprentice Apprentices.
should by original Charter, present him to the
Court, and pay Two Shillings ; and when out of
his Time, report his having duly served, and pay
Three Shillings and Fourpence ; then present
him with their Approval, before the Chamber-
lain for his Freedom of the City. Selling or
turning over an Apprentice should be noted in
the Court Book, and the Master pay Two Shil-
lings. Offenders against this Law, forfeit
Twenty Shillings.
And for the more effectual carrying into
Execution the said several Acts, Clauses, or
Articles, the following further Rules and Orders
are made standing and fixed Decrees, for the
Management and good Government of the Wor-
shipful Company of MUSICIANS.
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ORDERED.
I. That a Clerk and Beadle be appointed and
elected annually on the Master's Day, to collect
Quarterage, issue Summonses, to attend the
Master and Court, and execute the necessary
Business of a Clerk and Beadle, as is the Custom
in other Companies.
II. That all the Business of the Company be
regularly entered in proper Books, and the Pro-
ceedings of the last Court and intermediate
Business be read and confirmed.
III. That a Treasurer be appointed an-
nually, to keep the Accounts of the Company,
and enter all Receipts and Payments in a Book ;
to be audited Quarterly by the Committee, and
annually made up and delivered to the Master
and Court, with all Sums of Money and other
Things placed in his Possession.
IV. That the Master do receive all Monies
for Fines and Fees during the Year; that he
make up his Account thereof Quarterly, which
shall be audited at a Committee, and the Ac-
count and Balance transferred to the Treasurer.
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V. That a Receipt Book in Manner of a
Banker's Cheque, on Copper-plate, be constantly
used, and the Christian and Surname, Residence,
and Business, be entered in the Margin ; the
receipt signed by the Master and witnessed by
the Clerk.
VI. That no Member bind, make free, turn
over, or withdraw from the Company, without
first paying all Arrears of Quarterage.
VII. That the Expense and Charge for hold-
ing the Quarterly Court, and every other Meet-
ing holden on the Company's Affairs, be paid
out of the Company's Stock. The Master and
Wardens to appoint Time and Place of Meeting.
VIII. That the Company's Cash be vested
in some of the Public Funds ; transferred to
Three Members of the Court, with Power to
appoint a Receiver of the Interest; upon the
Death or Resignation of either, a new one to be
chosen.
IX. That Ten Shillings and Sixpence be
allowed each Member of the Court who shall
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attend at Twelve o'clock precisely and Five
Shillings to each of such Members as shall attend
within One Quarter of an Hour after that Time ;
but that no allowance be made to any member
who shall attend after that Time.
X. That the Laws and Orders, and a correct
List of the Company, with the Name, Date of
Admission, and other Additions, be printed in
a Book for the Use of the Court, and a Sheet
List of the Livery, as often as the Court shall
see Occasion.
XL That no Person admitted on the Court
of Assistants shall in future be elected a Warden
until he has been on the Court two years ; and
that the Wardens in case of necessity shall be
chosen out of the Members, that have passed the
Chair.
XII. That no Person be translated to any
other Company, until he pays the Livery and
Steward's Fine, together with the Clerk and
Beadle's Fees. Vide fol. 5 for the Penalty.
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The Master and Wardens' Oath.
YE Solemnly and sincerely declare, that ye
will be true to our Sovereign Lord the King,
and to his Heirs and Successors, Kings and
Queens of the Realm of England. And that
you and every of you effectually and diligently,
during the Time or Season you shall be, or re-
main, in your said Office, shall as far forth as you
lawfully and conveniently may, see to, and keep
the said Art and Science of the MUSICIANS
in good Order and Rule, and execute your
Office, in every Case thereunto appertaining,
truly, justly, and indifferently.
I do.
The Assistants' Oath.
I or we sincerely declare that we will faith-
fully aid and assist the Master and Wardens of
the Art or Science of MUSICIANS of London,
for the time being, and every of them ; as well
in the Execution of the Rules and Ordinances
made and ratified for the good Order and
Government of the said Art, as in all other
Affairs whatsoever concerning the same Art ;
That you will not procure or consent that the
H
98
Lands, Revenues of, or Goods of the aforesaid
Company, shall be inordinately spent, con-
sumed, or embezzled, but to the best of your
Skill and Power ye shall the same let and with-
stand.
I do.
The Oath of a Freeman
of the
Worshipful Company of Musicians.
You solemnly and sincerely declare, that you
will be faithful and true to our Sovereign Lord
the King's Majesty, and to his Heirs and Suc-
cessors, Kings and Queens of Great Britain. You
will not do nor consent to be done, any
Treasons or Felonies ; but all such as you shall
know, you shall duly to your Power do to be
revealed and known to the King or his Council.
And you will be obedient unto the Master and
Wardens of the Art or Science of Musicians of
London for the Time being, in all Things con-
cerning the same Art or Science being Agree-
able to the Ordinances of the said Art and
Customs of the City of London. And you shall
come duly and truly, upon every lawful Sum-
99
mons, to any Assembly to be made for any
Matter or Cause to be treated and communed
upon by the Master, Wardens, and Assistants
of the said Art or Science. Also well and truly,
after your Power you will in all things obey,
keep and observe all the Acts and Ordinances
made for the Governance and good Order of the
said Art or Science, and confirmed according to
the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, in that
Case provided.
I do.
H 2
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FINES AND FEES.
On Admission to the Livery.
£
s.
d.
Fine on Admission 35
Freedom Fine
13
Clerk's Fees 2
19
6
Beadle's Fee
2
6
Stamp Duty on Admission by Redemption 3
(Stamp Duty on Admission by Servitude
or Patrimony, ;£i.)
£41
15
Admission to the Freedom of the City
of London ...
£42 16 o
On Admission to the Court.
£ s. d.
Court Fine 50 o o
Clerk's Fee i iS o
£5^ IS °
SIR JOHN STAlNhK',
A\ASTER of the WoRSHlPFL'L Cu.^\HA^V OF AlUMClANS, I.'S'J4-,^, 1900-1.
(Fr<mi the Paintini^ hy HfrknnK-r.)
To lace paf;e loi.
lOI
MASTERS OF THE MUSICIANS'
COMPANY
From 1800 to 1905.
1800-
— I.
William Huson
I80I-
—2.
Thomas Gross
1802-
-3-
James Smith
1803-
-4-
John Ashley
1804-
-5-
Job Williams
1805-
-6.
Thomas Fellows
1806-
-7-
Thomas Ashby
1807-
-8.
John Rutler
1808-
-9-
William Moore
1809-
-10.
Joseph Gough
I8I0-
-II.
Thomas Wood
i8n-
-12.
John Axford
l8l2-
-13-
Joseph Staines
1813-
-14.
Joseph Green
1814-
-15-
Job Williatns
181S-
-16.
John Axford
1816-
-17-
Joseph Staines
1817-
-18.
Joseph Green
1818-
-19.
Joseph Delagons
1819-
-20.
Alexander Glennie
1820-
-I.
John Chaplin
1821-
-z.
Richard Jones
1822-
-3-
Thomas Bingham
1823-
-4-
Alexander Glennie
I02
1 824— 5.
Joseph Todd
1825—6.
William Suttaby
1826—7.
Frederick William Collard
1827—8.
Thomas Fellows
1828—9.
Edward Batten
1829— 3G
1. John Joseph Skilbeck
1830— I.
William Ward, M.P.
1 83 1— 2.
Thomas Fellows, Jnr.
1832—3-
i John Strachan Glennie*
\ Henry Wadd
1833—4-
Thrower Buckle Herring
1834—5-
Giddes Mackenzie Simpson
1835-6.
WilHam Chaplin
1836—7.
Robert Albron Fellows
1837—8.
Thomas Herring
1838—9.
Henry Patteson
1839—40.
William Ward
1840 — I.
John Evans
1841—?.
Edward Wiggins
1842—3.
James Southby Bridge
1843—4.
John Skilbeck
1844—5.
James Wedderburn Simpson
1845—6.
Frederick William Collard
1846—7.
Frederick William Collard
(re-elected)
1847—8.
William Ward
1848—9.
Thomas Fellowes
1849 — 50. Thrower Buckle Herring
J. S. Glennie went abroad, and in July, 1833,
Hy. Wadd was elected Master in his place.
103
1850 — I. William Chaplin
1 85 1 — 2. Thomas Herring
1852 — 3. Thomas Herring (re-elected)
1853 — 4. John Evans
1854 — 5. Edward Wiggins
1855 — 6. James Southby Bridge
1856 — 7. Joseph Skilbeck
1857 — 8 Robert Philip Jones
1858—9. John Wood
1859 — 60. Thomas Fellowes
i860 — I. William Chaplin
1861 — 2. Thomas Herring
1862 — 3. James S. Bridge
1863 — 4. John Evans
1864 — 5. Charles Lukey Collard
1865 — 6. Charles Lukey Collard (re-elected)
1866 — 7. John Hilditch Evans
1867 — 8. Robert Philip Jones
1868 — 9. John Peter Theobald
1869 — 70. John Barnwell Herring
1870 — I. Thomas Prowett Jones
1 87 1 — 2. Joseph Sidney Lescher
1872 — 3. George Wood
1873 — 4. William Costall May
1874 — 5. Henry Richard Frisby
1875—6, William Chappell
1876 — 7. John Henry Skilbeck
1877 — 8. William Stuartson Collard
1878 — 9, Walter Meacock Wilkinson
1879 — 8°' Robert Betson Warrick
1880 — I. John Hilditch Evans
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i88i— 2, John Peter Theobald
1882 — 3. John Barnwell Herring
1883 — 4. Thomas Prowett Jones
1884 — 5. George Wood
1885 — 6. Henry Richard Frisby
1886—7. William Costall May
1887—8. William Chappell
1888—9. John Henry Skilbeck
1889 — 90. William Stuartson Collard
1890— I. Walter Meacock Wilkinson
i89r — 2. Robert Betson Warrick
1892 — 3. Professor John Frederick Bridge
1893 — 4- John Clementi Collard
1894 — 5. Sir John Stainer
1895 — 6. Henry Richard Frisby
1896 — 7. William Stuartson Collard
1897 — 8. Walter Meacock Wilkinson
1898 — 9. Sir John Frederick Bridge
1899 — 1900. John Clementi Collard
( Sir John Stainer* and
r9oo — I. J ■'
' John Clementi Collard
1 901 — 2. Charles Dennis Hoblyn
1902 — 3. Frank Harwood Lescher
1903 — 4. William Cordy Herring
1904 — 5. Charles Thomas Daniell Crews
* Sir John Stainer died 31st March, ipoi.
CHARLES JANE ASHLEY.
1773-1S43.
Frou a Painting in the Possession of ARTHUR F. HILL, Esq.
To Jacu page 105.
105
A Past Member of the Company-
Charles Jane Ashley.
Charles Jane Ashley (1773-1843) was the son
of John Ashley, who was Master of the Com-
pany in its Bicentenary year 1804. He was a
performer of considerable excellence on the
violoncello, and had great reputation as an
accompanist. He was one of the founders of
the Glee Club in 1793, an original Member of
the Philharmonic Society, and for some years
Secretary of the Royal Society of Musicians.
John Ashley and the members of his family are
well known to musical historians.
The Portrait is from a painting in the posses-
sion of Mr. Arthur F. Hill.
MEDAL OF THE Company.
Tu foce page 107.
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THE COMPANY'S MEDAL.
INSTITUTED 1SS9.
The GOLD MEDAL of the Company was
graciously accepted by
H.M. KING EDWARD VII.
(then Prince of Wales) on the 19th July, 1893.
The SILVER GILT MEDAL was unani-
mously voted to Sir Homewood Crawford, 17th
January, 1905, for his services as Chairman of the
Committee of the Company's Tercentenary
Exhibition, 1904.
The SILVER MEDAL of the Company is
presented annually to the most distinguished Student
at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of
Music, or the Guildhall School of Music, in rotation,
the Recipient being nominated, without competition or
examination, by the Principal or Director of each
Institution in turn, assisted in each case by two of
his principal Professors.
Silver Medallists from the Schools
of Music.
1890. Mr. Stanley Hawley, Pianist, Royal
Academy of Music*
1 891. Miss Ethel Sharpe, Pianist, Royal Col-
lege of Music.
* Mr. Stanley Hawley was admitted to the Livery of the Company
n the i7tb July, 1903.
io8
1892. Mr. Joseph Spaight, Pianist, Guildhall
School of Music.
1893. Miss Llewela Davis, Pianist, Royal
Academy of Music.
1894. Miss Clara Butt, Singer, Royal College
of Music.
1895. Mr. Francis Lloyd Chandos, Singer,
Guildhall School of Music.
1896. Mr. Percy Hilder Miles, Violinist and
Composer, Royal Academy of Music.
1897. Mr. Samuel Grimson, Violinist, Royal
College of Music.
1898. Miss Fanny Woolf, Violinist, Guildhall
School of Music.
1899. Mr. Harry Farjeon, Composer, Royal
Academy of Music.
1900. Miss Muriel Foster, Singer, Royal Col-
lege of Music.
1 901. Miss Mabel Monteith, Pianist, Guildhall
School of Music.
1902. Mr. Adam Ahn von Carse, Composer,
Royal Academy of Music.
1903. Miss Kate Elizabeth Anderson, Singer,
Royal College of Music
1904. Mr. Henry Ernest Geehl, Composer,
Guildhall School of Music.
1905. Mr. Edwin York Bowen, Pianist and
Composer, Royal Academy of Music
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The Silver Medal has also been awarded
to the following gentlemen : —
January 20th, 1903.
Sir Walter Parratt, M.V.O., Mus. Doc, Oxon.,
Master of the King's Musick ; and
Sir Hubert Parry, Bart., M.A., Mus. Doc, Cantab.,
Oxon., et Dubl., D.C.L., Director of the Royal
College of Music,
in recognition of their services as Adjudicators
for the Coronation Prize March.
Charles Ernest Rube, Esq.,
in recognition of his gift of a Loving Cup to
the Company.
April 28th, 1903.
Thomas Lea Southgate, Esq. ;
Cyril Arthur Pearson, Esq. ; and
James Munro Coward, Esq.,
in recognition of their services in connection
with the Coronation Prize March.
no
17th January, 1905-
Arthur Frederick Hill, Esq., F.S.A. ;
John Frederick Randall Stainer, Esq.,
M.A., B.C.L.; and
Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier, J.P.,
in recognition of their services in connection
with the Company's Tercentenary Exhibition^
igo4.
11th July, 1905,
William Hayman Cummings, Esq., Mus. Doc,
Principal of the Guildhall School of Music, and
Carl Hentschel, Esq., Chairman of the Music
Committee of the Corporation of the City of
London,
in recognition of their services at the performance
of the Maske of " The Golden Tree," 2gth
fune, igoj.
Miniature Medals to Past Masters.
Since ipoi a Miniature replica of the Medal
has been presented to Past Masters of the
Company.
Ill
THE COMPANY'S SCHOLARSHIPS
AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL
OF MUSIC.
Composition Scholarships.
On the 31st October, 1893, the Court resolved
to grant an Annual sum for an Exhibition to be
competed for by Students of Composition at
the Guildhall School of Music.
The Exhibition has been awarded to : —
Mr. H. Waldo Warner* 1895
Miss Evangeline Morgan 1897
Mr. Herbert Philip Thomas ... 1901
Miss Emmeline Brooke 1905
• Of Mr. Warner it may be noted that he was the winner of the
composition prize given in 1897 by Mr. W. W. Cobbett (now a Livery-
man of the Company). He has also composed an Opera, entitled
"The Royal Vagrants," produced at the Guildhall School in igoo
with considerable success.
112
The Carnegie Scholarships.
In 1904, the munificence of Mr. Andrew
Carnegie (Honorary Freeman of the Company)
enabled the Company to found two Scholarships
at the Guildhall School of Music, each Scholar-
ship entitling its holder to three years' free
tuition. In addition to other necessary qualifi-
cations, it is imperative that the candidates
for these Scholarships should show special
ability in reading Music at sight.
The first Examination of Ccindidates was held
at the Guildhall School of Music on the 17th
January, 1905, by Sir Frederick Bridge, Dr. F. J.
Sawyer and Dr. E. Markham Lee (Members of
the Company).
Forty-seven Candidates, of both sexes, were
examined, and the Scholarships were awarded to
Miss Elizabeth Tarttelin, aged 16, and
Miss Catherine Ethel Harman, aged 17.
113
The Ernest Palmer Scholarships.
In July, 1905, Mr. S. Ernest Palmer, the
Founder of the Patron's Fund of the Roya!
College of Music and of the Berkshire Scholar-
ship, an Honorary Freeman of the Company,
presented the Company with a sum of one
thousand pounds, which has been appropriated
with his consent to the establishment of two
further scholarships at the Guildhall School of
Music. The interest on this munificent gift is to
be devoted (i) to paying the fees for a Chorister,
selected after competition, who' has left the St.
Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey Choir,
to be taught for two years, and who will then have
obtained a complete musical education ; (2) to
performing the same service for a girl, also to
be trained in music at the Guildhall School.
Candidates must be British born, under 21
years of age in the case of males, and under
18 years of age in the case of females,
and in making the selection, preference will
be given to those who evince most aptitude
in reading music at sight. Dr. G. J. Bennett and
Mr. Stanley Hawley (Members of the Company)
have been nominated Judges for the competition.
"5
Prize Competitions.
The Coronation March.
1902.
On August 1st, IQOI, The Master, Wardens
and Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Com-
pany of Musicians offered a Prize of Fifty
Guineas together with the Freedom and Livery
of the Musicians' Company for the Composition
of an Orchestral March, suitable for performance
at Festivities that might be held in celebration
of the Coronation of His Majesty King
Edward VII. in ig02. The adjudicators were
Sir Frederick Bridge (Past Master of the
Musicians' Company), Sir Walter Parratt (Master
of the King's Musick), and Sir Hubert Parry
(Director of the Royal College of Music). One
hundted and eighty-nine competitors took part,
and the prize was awarded to Mr. PERCY
Godfrey, Mus. Bac, Master of Music at the
Ii6
King's School, Canterbury. The March was
played at His Majesty's Coronation on the gth
August, 1902.*
On the 1 2th February, 1903, a Deputation,
consisting of the Master, Wardens and Clerk,
attended at York House, St. James', and pre-
sented H.R.H. the Prince of Wales with a cheque
for ;£^866 2s. od. for King Edward's Hospital
Fund, the money being derived from the sale of
this March. A copy of the March, in appro-
priate binding, was at the same time presented
to the Prince.
• The March is published by lUessrs. Metzier & Co., I-td.
THE PRIZE GRACE.
By
CHARLES WOOD. M.A.Mns-.D.
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117
Mr. C. T. D. Crews' Prize.
1904.
For the Best Setting of THE GRACE:—
" Occuli Omnium in Te sperant, Domine, et Tu das
escam illorum in tempore opportuno.
Gloria Tibi Domine, Amen"
This Prize was won by Charles Wood, M.A.,
Mus. Doc, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
An additional Prize was given by Mr. Crews for a
very excellent setting of the Grace by Mr. Arthur
Henry Brown, of Brentwood, Essex.
There were 370 competitors.
The Adjudicators were Sir Frederick Bridge
and Sir George Martin.
A Copy of each setting of the Grace is here given.
Dr. Wood's for S.A.T.B. Mr. Arthur Henry Brown's
or A.T.T.B.*
•These Compositions are published by Messrs. Metzler & Co., Ltd.
Ii8
The Rev. Henry Cart's Prizes.
Presented on the 300/A Anniversary of the Charter of
fames /., %th fuly, 1904.
A Cycle of Three Songs : —
I. " How sweet the Moonlight sleeps upon
this Bank."
II. "To Music."
III. " Music in the air."
Prize of ;^2i won by Miss May Dawson.
Seven Short Pianoforte Pieces, entitled: —
"The Week."
Prize of £,2C„ won by Percy Carter Buck,
M.A., Mus. Bac, Oxon.
Two Pieces for Violin and Pianoforte
(grouped together), entitled : —
{a) "Spanish Shepherd Song."
{b) "Spanish Dance."
Prize of ;£i2, won by Herbert Walter Wareing,
Mus. Doc, Cantab.
Organ Postlude : —
" Allegro Maestoso "
Prize of ;^io, won by Herbert Walter Wareing,
Mus. Doc, Cantab.
Part Song for S.A.T.B. :—
" Phcebe sat, sweet she sat."
Prize of ^10, won by James Lyon, Mus. Bac,
Oxon.
The Adjudicators were Sir Frederick Bridge,
Sir George Martin, and Dr. Markham Lee,
Members of the Company.
These Prize Compositions will shortly be published by
Messrs. Metzler & Co., Ltd,
119
The Cobbett Prize Competition
Mr. W. W. Cobbett has presented the sum of
£^o to the Company, to be awarded as a prize
for the composition of the best "Phantasy," to
take the form of a short Quartet written for
strings. Other prizes are added by the Master
and Mr. H. L. Sternberg, and from a
" Donors' Fund " contributed to by Members of
the Company. The object is to popularise a
modification of the String Quartet among
general audiences, and to endeavour to bring
into life a new Art Form which should provide
fresh scope for the composer of Chamber Music.
The Manuscripts are to be sent to the Clerk of
the Company before the close of the year 1905.
The Competition is restricted to British subjects.
Sir Alexander C. Mackenzie, Principal of the
R.A.M., and Mr. Alfred Gibson, R.A.M., with
Mr. W. W. Cobbett and Mr. H. L. Sternberg
(Members of the Company) are the Judges for
determining these Prizes.
The works selected for publication will be
assigned to and issued by the Company.
120
RECENT GIFTS TO THE
COMPANY.
Reference has been made to the generosity
of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. S. Ernest Palmer,
The Rev. Henry Cart, Mr. W. W. Cobbett
and other members of the Company, whereby
Scholarships have been founded and Prizes
offered for the advancement and encouragement
of the Art of Music.
The Company has, however, received other
gifts which must be recorded.
The Rube Cup.
This massive Silver Cup, of which two illus-
trations are given, was presented in ig02 by
Mr. Charles Rube.
The predominant idea of its design is Music.
One panel, by Morel Ladeuil, representing
the Spirit of Music surrounded by her attendant
nymphs, is a replica of one of the panels of the
CUP Presemed to the Wc.rshipeul C<JA1PA^Y OK Musll;lA^s
BY CHARLES UVBE, Esq.
iPanel representing the Spirit oj iilusie).
Between psges 120 and 1
121
Helicon Vase presented to Her late Majesty
Queen Victoria. The other panel, by Spall,
illustrates the Story of Orpheus charming the
wild beasts by the beauty of his Music. The
Cover of the Cup is surmounted by the figure
of a winged Cupid plajang with Cymbals, and
bears on one front the arms and motto of the
Musicians' Company, and on its opposite the
arms and motto of the City of London.
The inscription on the Cup is : —
"Presented to the Musicians' Company by
Charles Rube, Esq., to commemorate the
Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII."
122
The Crews Cup.
This Cup, presented in 1904 by Mr. C. T. D.
Crews, is of silver gilt, and is a fine replica of the
original by Paul Lamerie, the celebrated Silver-
smith of Queen Anne's days.
Gowns for the Master and Wardens.*
In 1904, Mr. C. T. D. Crews presented gowns
of rich blue silk, trimmed with black silk velvet
with broad facings of musquash fur, for the
Master and Wardens.
The Clerk's black silk gown was also presented
by Mr. Crews.
See Illustration, facing p. i from a photograph taken at Vintners
Hall on the 2nd May, 1905.
CUP Presented by C. T. D. CREWS, Esq.
To face page 122.
THE BANNER of the Co,MPA^v.
Presented by COLONEL SHAW-HELLIER.
I'JO-l.
To face paii^e 123
123
Banner of the Company
Presented by Colonel Shaw-Hellier, in 1904.
The following is a description of the
Banner : —
The subject is Saint Cecilia, patroness of
Music, after the painting in the Musee du
Louvre, Paris, by Domenico Zampieri dit le
Dominiquin (1581 — 1641). The Saint, richly
robed, being of a wealthy family, is depicted
standing behind a sort of balcony, singing in an
ecstasy of devotion, and playing upon a quciint
violoncello with eight strings. The figure of a
boy with wings stcinds upon the same level and
with uplifted hands bears upon his head the
open music book. Surrounding the central
subject and forming the frame of the whole, is a
classic plinth, columns and leafy arch. In the
lower part are two shields, one charged with the
arms of the Musicians' Company, the other with
those of the Donor. On each column hangs a
shield charged with the crest of the Company.
The work is done in the method known as
Tapestry painting. The Banner is carried on
an ebonized Pole surmounted by the Lyre of the
Company in polished brass.
124
Portrait of Handel.
The fine Portrait of George Frederick Handel,
by the celebrated French portrait painter,
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), was presented
by Mr. Charles T. D. Crews, Master of the
Company in 1905.
Gift for Poor Students.
Mr. C. T. D. Crews also presented the sum of
fifty guineas to Dr. Cummings, to be expended
by him in the relief of poor students at the
Guildhall School of Music.
^-i^^SifeSI^
POI>'TRAlT OF HANDEL.
Presented to the Ojwpaw i-;y C. T. D, Ci-'tiWS, Hsq.,
MaSIEL' OI^ the CO.UI'ANV, 1C0-.
To face page 124.
M Patrons: "'s majesty the king.
life -_^_^ Hgr Majestv Oueen Alexandra.
Her Majesty Queen Alexandra.
Their Royal Hi{;hiiesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Tercentenary
Exhibition c .he ^
I WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF MUSICIANS i
TO ee HELD AT
I Fishmongers' Hall,
S LONDON BRIDGE
•'^ iBr kind permission of the FISHMONOERS' COMPANY), on
Tuesday, 28th June, until Saturday, I6th July, 1904. ^
A LOAN COLLECTION
OF
Musical Instruments, Manuscripts, Portraits, &c
Admission by Payment as follows:—
Between 10 and 6, ONE SHILLING. Between 6 and 8, SIXPENCE
I Daily Afternoon Lectures, |
with Musical Illustrations, by eminent Musicians, at 4.30. Il<^
Copy of the POSTER announcing the
Tercentenary Exhibition.
To face page 125.
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THE COMMEMORATION OF THE
TERCENTENARY
of the granting by King James I. of the
Company's Second Charter of Incorporation.
THE MUSIC LOAN EXHIBITION.
At a Court held on the 20th January, 1903, it
was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Sir
Homewood Crawford, to celebrate the 300th
anniversary of the granting by King James I. of
a Charter of Incorporation to the Musicians'
Company on the 8th day of July, 1604, by
holding an Exhibition of Ancient Musical
Instruments, Manuscripts, Autographs, Portraits,
Books and other mementoes of music ajid
musicians, under the auspices of the Company.
The following members of the Company were
elected to form a ComiAi,ttee to carry out this
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undertaking, with Sir Homewood Crawford as
Chairman, namely : —
The Master.
William Cordy Herring, Esq.
Senior Warden.
Charles Thomas Daniell Crews, Esq., D.L.,
J.P., F.S.A.
Junior Warden.
Edward Ernest Cooper, Esq.
Robert Edmund Brandt, Esq.
Sir Frederick Bridge, M.V.O., Mus. Doc.
The Rev. Thomas Henry Cart, M.A.
Captain Adrian Charles Chamier, F.S.A.
Sir Ernest Clarke, M.A., F.S.A.
John Clementi Collard, Esq.
Sir Homewood Crawford.
Clifford Blackburn Edgar, Esq., Mus. Bac.
The Rev. R. H. Hadden, M.A.
Frank Harwood Lescher, Esq.
W. H. p. Leslie, Esq.
Alfred Henry Littleton, Esq.
Sir George Martin, M V.O., Mus. Doc.
Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier.
Charles Ernest Rube, Esq.
Thomas Lea Southgate, Esq.
Joseph Edward Street, Esq.
Thomas Collingwood Fenwick, Esq. (Clerk).
Hon. Secretaries-
A. F. Hill, Esq., F.S.A.
J. F. R. Stainer, Esq., M.A., B,C,L.
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The immediate patronage of His Majesty the
King, Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, and Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales was graciously given to the Exhibition.
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
granted the use of their magnificent Hall and
adjacent rooms for a period of about four weeks
for the Exhibition, and, in addition, gave their
most cordial co-operation and valuable assist-
ance, and bore the greater portion of the
expenses of the opening Ceremony, thus placing
the Musicians' Company under a lasting
obligation to them.
The general expenses of the Exhibition were
borne chiefly by Members of the Company, but
contributions were also received from the
Worshipful Companies of Goldsmiths, Cloth-
workers, Mercers, Grocers, Skinners, Merchant
Taylors, Haberdashers, Vintners and Leather-
sellerSj in addition to a handsome donation
voted by the Court of the Company.
The object of the Exhibition was to enable
all interested in Music to contrast as a fruitful
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means of instruction its past with its then present
condition ; to estimate its growth and develop-
ment, and to observe what progress had been
made with the work of the Instrument Maker,
Composer, Player and! Music Printer.
The Exhibition includfed ancient Musical
Instruments, rare Books, fine Pictures, unique
Manuscripts, Autographs, Portraits and other
Mementoes of Music and Musicians, many of
which had never before been exhibited nor are
they likely tO' be gathered together again.
His Majesty the King graciously headed
the list of lenders. It may confidently be
said that the Exhibition surpassed in its
completeness any other which had hitherto
been held. It is impossible in this short
notice to describe the exhibits or to indicate
others of the prominent features of the collection.
A complete record will, however, be given in the
illustrated catalogue shortly to be published by
Messrs. Novello and Co., Ltd., which will contain
a list of all the exhibits, together with historical
and critical remarks on the more important
entries.
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Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and
Princess of Wales, graciously consented to open
the Exhibition, and fixed Monday, the 27th
June, 1904, for the ceremony, and having
expressed their desire that their visit should be
regarded as more of a private nature than as an
official function, the invitations were necessarily
limited. Those invited to the Ceremony
included the Lord Mayor (Sir J. T. Ritchie), the
Lady Mayoress, and the Sheriffs (Alderman Sir
John Knill and Sir Alfred Reynolds) with their
ladies ; the Prime Warden, the Wardens, Court
of Assistants and Clerk of the Fishmongers'
Company, with their ladies ; the Masters and
Clerks of the principal Livery Companies ; the
Principals of the Royal Academy of Music, the
Royal College of Music, and the Guildhall School
of Music, and other distinguished Musicians;
every Member of the Musicians' Company, the
Members of the Court and the Exhibition Com-
mittee and the lenders being asked to come
accompanied by their ladies.
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The following programme of the Opening
Ceremony, previously submitted to and approved
by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
was carried out in its entirety.
Programme of Opening Ceremony
BY
Their Royal Highnesses
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
On Monday, the 2 7tb, June, 1904, at 4 o'clock,
At Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge,
By kind permission oj the Fishmongtrs' Company.
The General Guests will assemble between
3 and 3.30 o'clock, and take their seats in the
Court Dining Room, where the Opening
Ceremony will take place at 4 o'clock.
A Selection of Music will be performed during
the seating of the Guests and until the arrival
of Their Royal Highnesses.
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, the Lady
Mayoress, the Sheriffs, and their ladies will arrive
at 3.45, and be received by Master and Wardens.
Their Royal Highnesses will on their arrival
be received by the Prime Warden of the Fish-
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mongers' Company (Henry Joseph Chinnery,
Esq.), who will be presented, and will present
the Wardens of his Company (S. Hope Morley,
Esq., H. Doughty Browne, Esq., George Lewis
Denman, Esq., Hugh Cohn Smith, Esq., and
Bryan Erskine Durant, Esq.).
Their Royal Highnesses will then be con-
ducted upstairs to the entrance to the Great Hall,
where they will be received by the Master of
the Musicians' Company (William Cordy
Herring, Esq.), who will be presented, and will
present the Wardens of his Company (Charles
Thomas Daniell Crews, Esq., and Edward
Ernest Cooper, Esq.), and Mrs. Herring.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
will be presented with a bouquet by Mrs.
Herring.
The Master will then present the Chairman of
the Exhibition Committee (Sir Homewood
Crawford) and Lady Crawford, and Their Royal
Highnesses will be asked to accept a copy of the
exhibition catalogue from Lady Crawford.
Their Royal Highnesses, conducted by the
Chairman, will then make an inspection of the
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Exhibition, having the special features of it
explained to them by Members of the Exhibition
Committee at their respective sections.
With the permission of Their Royal High-
nesses, the following will accompany them : —
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor and Mrs.
Herring.
The Lady Mayoress and the Master of
the Musicians' Company.
The suite in attendance on Their Royal
Highnesses.
Alderman and Sheriff Sir John Knill,
Bart, and Lady Crawford.
Mr. Warden Crews and Lady Knill.
Sheriff Sir Alfred Reynolds and Mrs.
Crews.
Mr. Warden Cooper and Lady Reynolds.
The Prime Warden of the Fishmongers'
Company and Mrs. Cooper.
The Wardens and Clerk of the Fish-
mongers' Company.
The Clerk of the Musicians' Company
and the Honorary Secretaries.
On arrival in the Great Hall a short selection
of Shakesperian Music, published in 1599, will
be performed under the direction of Sir
13^
Frederick Bridge, M.V.O., Mus. Doc, by the
Rev. F. W. Galpin, Mrs. Galpin, and others, on
the following instruments in actual use in 1604,
namely: —
The Treble Viol, the Recorder, the
Cittern, the Pandora, the Lute, and the Bass
Viol.
Having made the tour of the Exhibition, Their
Royal Highnesses will be conducted to the plat-
form in the Court Dining Room, where they will
be briefly addressed by the Chairman of the
Exhibition Committee, and His Royal Highness
will be asked to declare the Exhibition open.
His Royal Highness having declared the
Exhibition open. Their Royal Highnesses will
be conducted downstairs to the Court Room,
where light refreshments will be served.
In the course of their tour of inspection
of the Exhibition Their Royal Highnesses
evinced considerable interest in the Exhibits,
the more important of which were severally ex-
plained by Sir Frederick Bridge, Col. Shaw-
HeDier, Mr. Littleton, Mr. Southgate, Mr. Street
and the Hon. Secretaries, who were respectively
in charge of them. In particular Their Royal
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Highnesses were especially charmed with the
magnificent Portrait of Handel, never previously
exhibited, lent by Earl Howe, the carved Violin
presented by Queen Elizabeth to Earl Leicester,
lent by the Earl and Countess of Warwick, the
Lam.ont Harp, lent by Mr. W. Moir Bryce, Queen
Elizabeth's Virginal Book, lent by the Marquis
of Abergavenny, the Ruckers Harpsichord, lent
by the Countess of Dudley, Nell Gwynne's
Virginal, lent by Mr. A. F. Hill, the many
interesting MSS. and Books on Musical Instru-
ments and the beautiful collection of Virginals
and Harpsichords and other old Instruments of
ancient periods, particularly the English stringed
ones of the 17th century.
At the close of their visit Their Royal High-
nesses were briefly addressed by the Chairman
of the Committee (Sir Homewood Crawford),
and the Prince of Wales made the following
gracious reply = " Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
" Gentlemen, — I can only say that it has given
"both the Princess and myself the greatest
"pleasure to come here to-day, and we have been
"extremely interested in all we have seen of
"those wonderful old musical instruments which
" date back, as you say, 300 years. I can only say
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" I hope it will be visited by a great number of
" people, and I am sure they cannot fail to be as
"interested as we have been. I am excessively
"pleased to be present in the Fishmongers' Hall
"once more, as I have the honour of being a
"Member of that Company. I now have great
"pleasure in declaring this Exhibition open."
After partaking of refreshment, Their Royal
Highnesses took their departure, having
expressed their great satisfaction with the
arrangements made for their visit, and repeating
their expression of sincere hope for the success
of the Exhibition.
A letter received subsequently by the Chair-
man from Col. Sir Arthur Bigge, the Secretary
tp His Royal Highness, reiterated this expression
of approval.
The Exhibition remained open to the public
until July i6th. Important lectures were
delivered daily by eminent authorities (Members
of the Company and others) on the Development
of Musical Instruments and the Advance of
Music since 1604.
Particulars of the Lectures.
June 28th. *T. L. Southgate. "The Evolution of the
Pianoforte."
June 29th. W. H. Cummings, Mus.Doc, F.S.A. " Our
English Songs.''
» Member of the Musicians' Company
13^
June 30th. H. Watson, Mus.Doc. " The Early English
Viols and their Music."
July I St. * E. Markham Lee, M.A., Mus.Doc.
" Madrigals, Rounds, Glees and Part-Songs."
July and. J. Finn. " The Recorder, Flute, Fife and
Piccolo. "
July 4th. * Sir Fredk. Bridge, M.V.O., Mus.Doc.
" Music in England in the Year 1604."
July 5th. * Algernon Rose. " Our Dances of Bygone
Days."
July 6th. A. H. D. Prendergast, M.A. "The Masque
and Early Operas."
July 7th. * F. J. Sawyer, Mus.Doc. " The English Opera
School."
July 8th. G. F. Huntley, Mus.Doc. "Our Cathedral
Composers and their Works."
July 9th. D. J. Blaikley. "The Single and Double
Reed Instruments."
July nth. Rev. F. W. Galpin, M.A., F.L.S. "The
Water Organ of the Ancients and the Organ ot
To-day."
July 12th. * T. L. Southgate. " The Regal and its
Successors; The Harmonica."
July 13th. *W. W. Cobbett. "The Violin Family and
its Music."
July 14th. J. E. Borland, Mus.Bac. " The Brass Wind
Instruments."
July isth. *A. H. Littleton. "A Discourse on Early
Music Books."
July i6th. * Sir E. Clarke, M.A. " Music of the
Country Side."
These Lectures were given with musical illus-
• Members of the Musicians' Company
13^
trations, and formed a most interesting and
unique feature of the Exhibition, and judging
from the crowds who flocked daily to the Lecture
Room, the Company may claim to have made
a record in its mode of instructing an everyday
musical audience.
Arrangements have been made for the publica-
tion of the Lectures with the object of securing
a valuable and permanent record.*
At the close of the Exhibition a letter of
thanks was sent to each Exhibitor. His Majesty
the King was plesised to command that the
Company should be especially thanked for the
vote of thanks accorded to him.
The number of objects exhibited reached fully
2,000. They were insured for £S7A'h7-
The total number of lenders was 193.
Owing to the want of an executive staff and
executive officers everything connected with the
arrangement of the Exhibition and the collection
and return of Exhibits depended upon voluntary
and friendly assistance. Special reference must
be made to the valuable assistance rendered by
Sir Fredk. Bridge, Dr. W. H. Cummings, Sir
• The Lecture! will b^ published by tlie Walter Stott Publish-
ing Co., Ltd.
138
Caspar Purdon Clcirke (Director of the Victoria
and Albert Museum), the Rev. F. W. Galpin,
Mr. T. L. Southgate, Colonel Shaw-Hellier, Mr.
A. H. Littleton, Mr. J. E. Street and Miss
Stainer, all of whom materially added to the
Exhibition by the loan of exhibits of exceptional
merit, and the majority of whom devoted them-
selves assiduously to the task of making the
Exhibition an unqualified success by constant
personal attendance.
The Chairman of the Committee, Sir Home-
wood Crawford, and the Hon. Secretaries, Mr.
Arthur F. Hill and Mr. J. F. R. Stainer, displayed
great zeal in the discharge of their respective
duties. The Company is under a lasting obligation
to them for the enormous amount of time devoted
to- the Exhibition, and it is a pleasure to record
elsewhere that their services, as well as the
services of other friends, have received recogni-
tion by the Court of the Company.
In connection with the Exhibition a Con-
versazione was given on the 30th June, 1904, at
139
Fishmongers' Hall, by the Wardens, Mr. C. T. D.
Crews and Mr. E. E. Cooper, to which the
Members of the Company, their ladies and
friends, and many distinguished guests were
invited, when an interesting performance of
ancient music was given.
At the close of the Exhibition a Reception of
the Members of the Company and their friends
was held by Sir Homewood and Lady Crawford.
140
The Banquet.
On July 8th, 1904, being the 300th anniversary
of the granting of James I.'s Charter, the Master
of the Company (Mr. W. Cordy Herring)
generously entertained the whole of the Livery
at a Banquet, at the Albion Hotel, Aldersgate
Street. The company included the Lord Chief
Justice (Lord Alverstone), Mr. H. J. Chinnery,
Prime Warden of the Fishmongers' Company,
and the Principals of the three Colleges of Music.
Additional interest was imparted by the
presence of Mr. Samuel Ernest Palmer, to whom
the Freedom of the Company had been pre-
sented at the Court previously held on that day ; *
by the presentation of the Prizes given by the
Rev. Henry Cartt to the successful competitors ;
and by the Programme of Music, which was
exclusively English and included many of the
Prize Competitions, in which the Composers per-
sonally assisted.
• See Page 143
t See Page 118
HI
THE
HONORARY FREEMEN OF THE
COMPANY.
?^.E.?&. Prince Cftristi'aii of ScfilesftDiff.
His Royal Highness Prince Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein having honoured the Com-
pany by signifying his willingness to accept the
Freedom of the Company, the Certificate was
presented to him at Schomberg House, Pall Mall,
on the 1 8th July, 1905, by Mr. C. T. D. Crews,
the Master ; Sir Frederick Bridge (representing
Mr. E. E. Cooper, the Senior Warden); Sir
Homewood Crawford, Junior Warden, and the
Clerk, Mr. T. C. Fenwick, being in attendance.
142
Mr. Andrew Carnegie.
The presentation of the Freedom of the Com-
pany to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, LL.D., took place
on the 1 2th May, 1904, at Clothworkers' Hall,
kindly lent for the occasion by the Worshipful
Company of Clothworkers.
The honour was conferred upon Mr. Carnegie
in testimony of the great services rendered to
the Art of Music in the United Kingdom and
the United States of America.
A banquet followed at which a distinguished
company largely composed of Musicians was
present. The Master (Mr. W. Cordy Herring)
presided.
In proposing the health of Mr. Carnegie the
Master mentioned the generous support which
he (Mr. Carnegie) had afforded to Musical Art ;
that through his initiative and instrumentality
upwards of five hundred organs had been
installed in Churches in Scotland, England and
America ; and that in the munificent assistance
given by him to the many free libraries through-
out the country distinct service had been
rendered to Music, inasmuch as Music and its
literature formed a component part of the public
library scheme
143
Mr. Samuel Ernest Palmer.
A noteworthy event on the 300th anniversary
(8th July, 1904) of the granting of the Charter
by James I. was the presentation of the Freedom
to Mr. Samuel Ernest Palmer, in appreciation of
his services to Music, particularly by the founda-
tion of the Berkshire Scholarship and the
Patron's Fund of the Royal College of Music,
and endowing that Fund with the munificent gift
of ;£'20,ooo with the main object of assisting
young British Composers in the production of
their compositions.
The munificent gifts of Mr. Carnegie and
Mr. Palmer, whereby the company has been
enabled to found Scholarships at the Guildhall
School of Music, are referred to elsewhere
(pp. 112 and Wl).
144
Dr. W. H. Cummings
AND
The Rev. F. W. Galpin.
The Freedom of the Company was presented
to these gentlemen at the Court held on the
17th January, 1905, in acknowledgment of
invaluable services rendered by them on the
occasion of the Music Loan Exhibition, 1904.
•■it 'J
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145
THE MASKE OF
"THE GOLDEN TREE."
On June 29th, 1905, Mr. C. T. D. Grews, tlie
Master of the Company, most generously invited
the Members and their friends to the theatre of
the Guildhall School of Music to witness a per-
formance of the Masque of " The Golden Tree."
This work was written by Thomas Campion and
produced at Whitehall in 161 3 on the occasion of
the marriage of the Earl of Somerset and Lady
Frances Howard. Thomas Campion was a poet,
dramatist, composer and physician, who
flourished at the end of the sixteenth century
cind died in 161 9. He lived at a time when the
Maske or Masque, a combination of speech,
dance, song and chorus was in its prime. These
grand spectacular displays, furnished with beauti-
ful scenery, mechanical effects and splendid
costumes, were the delight of royalty and the
nobility for a considerable period. The best
poets and foremost musicians of the day united
to produce these precursors of the opera.
Thomas Campion was a man of many parts, even
on his musical side. Playford selected him to
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write the Counterpoint Treatise in his "Intro-
duction to the skill of Music," published in 161 8.
He became popular by the music he wrote for
the "Maske of Flowers," produced in 161 3.
The performance at the Guildhall School of
Music, kindly lent for the occasion by the Music
Committee of the Corporation, and for which all
possible assistance was given by Dr. W. H.
Cummings, Principal of the School and a Free-
man of the Musicians' Company, would indeed
have delighted our forefathers. It was a
magnificent presentation of a typical ancient
Maske, scenery, rich dresses, graceful dances
and delightful old music all combining to
furnish an evening's entertainment without
parallel. The performance was under the
direction of Mr. A. H. D. Prendergast, M.A.,
a notable authority on the Maske. It was the
custom for several composers to unite in pro-
viding suitable music. It so happened in this
case, the names of Lawes, Byrde, Coperario,
Farnaby, Laniere and Holborne appearing in the
score. Mr. Prendergast not only re-arranged
their music for the little orchestra led by Miss
Kate Chaplin, but also wrote some charming
additional pieces quite in the olden style. With
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the exception of some of the Principals, the cast
was mainly composed of students of the Guild-
hall School of Music, Mr. H. Saxe-Wyndham,
the Secretary, assisting in the stage work, and
Mr. B. Soutten being responsible for the Dances.
H.R.H. Princess Christian and her two daughters
honoured the performance with their presence.
At its close, hearty cheers were raised for the
Master whose munificence had provided for so
enjoyable a scene.
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STATIONERS' HALL.
Through the courtesy of the Master Warden
and Court of Assistants of the Stationers' Com-
pany, arrangements have been made for the
future official gatherings of the Musicians' Com-
pany to be held at Stationers' Hall, a building
of considerable interest to Musicians. Here the
annual gathering in honour of the Patron Saint
of Music known as " St. Cecilia's Feast " was
held for many years in the latter part of the
seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth
centuries, when Odes in Praise of Music, specially
written and composed, were performed. These
Odes include Dryden's " Ode to St. Cecilia "
(1687) and "Alexander's Feast" (1697), both of
which, in later years, Handel set to music. Of
recent years a handsome stained glass window
representing the Saint has been placed in the
Hall. The Stationers' Company is essentially a
trade guild, and can boast a respectable antiquity,
having recently celebrated its quincentenary,
when the Master alluded to the interesting fact
that it is exclusively composed of Members of
the Company's trades and their descendants.
The Register of Copyrights, which was estab-
,4/^1
The Company's FORM OF INVITATION.
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lished by the Company in the fifteenth century
and has since been continued under the
sanction of the legislature, contains many
entries relating to musical compositions,
and at the present time an entry at
Stationers' Hall is ein important weapon in
the protection of musical rights. The accom-
modation placed at the disposal of the Musicians'
Company comprises a handsome Hall panelled
with oak and decorated with a richly-carved screen
after the style of Grinling Gibbons, the work of
Stephen CoUedge ; a Court or Dining Room
used upon more than one occasion as the meeting
place of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons ; and
a panelled reception room sufficiently large to
accommodate 200 guests.
1906.
THE ROLL
Worshipful Company of Musicians,
members of the livery.
Arranged in order of Seniority according to the dates of their
Adtnission.
■^ Excused from Service in the Court of Assistants.
** Member of King Edward VII's. Coronation Choir.
t Member of the Committee of the Loan Exhibition, 1904.
Name and Address.
I. Thomas Prowett
Jones, Randolphs,
Biddenden, Kent
2. John Burgess
Knight,
31, Holland Park, W
3. George John
Gadsdon, The
Lodge, Ilford, Essex
John Henry
Skilbeck,
Z05, Upper Thames
Street, E.G.
Admitted
on
Livery.
1843
Aug. 10
1844
July 3
1863
April 8
1867
Feb. 20
Admitted
Assistant.
i860
July 4
*
*
1871
April 5
Additions.
Master 1870-1 ; 1883-4.
Master 1876-7 ; 1888-9. Trustee.
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Name and Address.
5. Henry Richard
Frisby,
1 7, Tokenhouse Yard,
E.G.
6. Robert Betson
Warrick,
4, Verulam Buildings
W.C.
7. John Clementi
COLLAED,
16, Grosvenor Street,
W.
8. William Cordy
Herring,
Wraysbury House,
Wraysbury, Bucks
9. Frank Harwood
Lescher,
31, Devonshire Place,
W.
10. Edward Alfred
Webb, F.S.A.,
Cookham Dene,
Chislehurst, Kent
Admitted
on
Livery,
1867
July 22
1867
Nov. I
1871
April 13
1873
April 10
1875
Feb. 8
187s
Feb. 8
Admitted
Assistant.
1869
July 7
1876
Jan. 4
1886
May 4
1897
July 6
1896
April 21
*
Additions.
Elected to Livery May 26, 1846.
Master 1874-5; 1885-6; 1895-6,
Master 1879-80; 1891-2.
fMASTER 1893-4; 1899-1900; and in
1 90 1 {after decease of Sir /ohn
Stainer). Treasurer.
fMASTER 1903-4.
(■Master 1902-3.
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Name and Address.
Admitted
on
Livery.
Admitted
Assistant,
Additions.
II. Sir John Frederick
Bridge, M.V.O.,
Mus Doc. Oxon.,
M.A. Dunelm.,
The Cloisters,
Westminster Abbey,
S.W.
12. Joseph Edward
Street, Woodside,
Caterham, Surrey
13. Sir HoMEWOOD
Crawford,
Merrington Lodge,
West Bolton
Gardens, South
Kensington, S.W.
1878
May 6
1885
Jan. 20
1880
April 30
1880
Aug. 26
*
1902
Nov. 28
f Master 1892-3; 1898-9 ; President
of the Livery Club 1903 ; Hon.
R.A.M.; L.T.C.L.; President of
the Royal College of Organists
1904-5 ; Organist of Westminster
Abbey ; Director of the Music at
the Coronation of H.M. King
Edward VII. ; Gresham Professor
of Music ; Conductor of the Royal
Choral and Madrigal Societies;
Member of the Senate and King
Edward Professor of Music of the
University of London ; Trustee of
the Musical Association; Composer
of and Writer on Music.
\Fellow of the Philharmonic Society ;
Hon. Sec. Madrigal Society.'''*
tJuNiOR Warden 1 904-s; Chairman
of the Committee of the Loan
Exhibition 1904; President
OF the Livery Club 1904, Re-
elected 1905 ; Vice-President
and Chairman of the Council
of the Westminster Orchestral
and Choral Society ; Member of
the Committee of the Royal
Patron's Fund, R.C.M. ; Author
of several Musical Compositions.
IS4
Name and Address.
14. Charles Thomas
Daniell Crews,
D.L., J.P., F.S.A.,
Billingbear, Woking-
ham, Berks., and
4 1 , Portman Square, W,
{High Sheriff for Berk-
shire, i8gg.)
15. Albert Charles
Hunter,
1 4, Montague Road,
Richmond, Surrey
1 6. John Westrope,
207, Grove Lane,
Camberwell, S.E.
17. Edward Ernest
Cooper,
Berrydown Court,
Overton, Hants.
18. Thomas Lea South-
gate,
19, Manor Park,
Hither Green, Lee,
S.E.
Admitted
on
Livery.
18S0
Aug. 27
1880
Oct. 9
1881
July 21
1882
Julys
1884
May 13
Admitted
Assistant.
1897
July 6
1903
April 2I
*
1901
Oct. 29
1903
July 7
Additions.
fMASTER 1904-5; Trustee; Hon.
Treasurer of the Madrigal Society;
Member of the Committee of Man-
agement, R.AM.; Member of the
Musical Association?^*
Hon. Sec. Livery Club ; Member
of the Royal Choral Society ;
Formerly Member of the Madrigal
Society and of Henry Leslies
Choir.**
Member of the Madrigal Society;
Formerly Member of the Bach
Choir.
jSenior Warden 1904-5. Trustee.
Fellow of the Philharmonic Society;
Hon. Treasurer and Member of the
Committeeof Management R.A.M.;
Hon. Librarian Madrigal Society ;
Member of the Committee of the
Abbey Glee Club ; Life Member
of the Musical Association.**
\ Writer on Music; Hon. Sec. Union
of Graduates in Music ; Member
R.C.O.; Member of Corporation,
Trinity College, L.ondon ; Member
of the Council Musical Association;
Vice-President of the Plain Song
and Mediceval Music Society ;
Formerly Editor of the "Musical
Standard " and of'' 'Musical News. "
'55
Name and Address.
Admitted
on
Livery.
Admitted
Assistant.
Additions.
19. Edward Beddome
1884
*
Forbes,
Nov. 21
Tilburstow Lodge,
South Godstone,
Redhill.
20. The Rev. Robert
1884
1904
t Member of Committee of the
Henry Hadden,
Nov. 28
April 26
Livery Club.
M.A.,
13, North Audley
Street, W.
(Hon. Chaplain to
the Ki7ig)
21. Charles Santley,
1885
*
Distinguished Singer; Writer on
67, Carlton Hill,
Nov. 6
Music.
N.W.
22. Otto GoLDSCHMiDT,
1886
*
Vice-President R.C.O.; Member of
I , Moreton Gardens,
July 2
the Council of the Royal College of
South Kensington,
Music; Hon. R.A.M.; Vice-
•iN^ . {Knight of the
President Madrigal Society ;
Swedish Wasa)
Director of the Philharmonic
Society ; Vice-President Musical
Association ; Member Swedish
R.A.M. ; Formerly Prof. R.A.M. ;
First Musical Director Bach Choir,
1876; Composer 0/ and Writer on
Music
23. William Palmer
1886
i9°S
Fuller,
Nov. 3
May 2
2, Verulam Buildings,
W.C.
156
Name and Address.
24. Edward Chappell,
18, Lower Belgrave
Street, S.W.
25. Alfred Moul,
53Ai Shaftesbury
Avenue, W.
26. Alfred Henry
Littleton,
50, Lancaster Gate,
W
27. Charles Dennis
HOBLYN,
18, Bishopsgate Street
Within, E.G.
28.FrederickWalmisley
Warrick,
6, RaymondBuildings,
Gray's Inn, W.C.
29.
Arthur Frederick
Hill, F.S.A.,
Ray man, Drayton
Green, Ealing, W.
Admitted
on
Livery.
i»87
July 5
1889
Feb. 14
1889
Oct. 30
1890
Jan. 2
1890
Jan. 2
1891
Sept. II
Admitted
Assistant.
1887
April 19
1905
Jan. 17
1893
Oct. 31
1905
Jan. 17
Additions.
Elected on Livery January 19, 1886.
Retired from Court July 6, 1897.
'[Member of the Council of the Royal
College of Music ; Member of Com-
mittee Royal Choral Society ; Mem-
ber of Executive Council of Music
Loan Exhibition, South Kensing-
ton, 1885 ; Member of Musical
Association.
Master 1901-1902. President of
THE Livery Club 1902. Member
OF THE Committee of the Livery
Club.
Joint Hon. Sec. Loan Exhibition
1904. Hon. Treasurer of the
Livery Club; Writer on the
Violin ; Member of the Committee of
the Loan Collection of Ancient
Musical Instruments, South Kens-
ington, 1885; and of the English
Committee of the Loan Collection
(Music and the Drama), Vienna,
1892/ Member of the Musiccil
Association.
157
Name and Address.
30. Henry Cock,
Trinity House,
Kingston-on-Thames
31. William Stevenson
HOYTE, Mus. Doc,
68, Boundary Road,
N.W.
32'
33-
34-
Admitted
on
Livery.
Algernon Sidney
Rose, F.R.G.S.,
3, Whitehall Court,
S.W.
CoI.Thomas Bradney
Shaw-Hellier,J.P.,
(late Commanding
j[th DragoonGuards),
Wombourne
Wodehouse, near
Wolverhampton
Robert Edmund
Brandt,
15, Lennox Gardens,
S.W,
1892
Mar. 18
1893
Mar. 29
1893
July 4
1894
June I
Admitted
Assistant.
1894
June I
Additions,
Elected to Livery igth January, 1886 /
F.R. C. O., Lie. Mus. T. C.L. ; Prof.
Organ R.A.M. and R.C.M. ;
Organist and Choirmaster All
Saints', Margaret Street, W. ;
Composer of Church Music.**
Fellow of the Philharmonic Society ;
Hon. Sec. Westminster Orchestral
Society; Member of the Musical
Association ; Writer on Music and
Composer.
f Elected Assistant, iith/uly, 1905.
Late Commandant Royal Military
School of Music, Kneller Ball;
Chairman of Music Committee
Royal Military Exhibition, 1890.
Lectured on Military Band Or-
ganisation at the Royal United
Senice Institution, 1892. Member
of the Musical Association.
fMEMBER OF Committee of the
Livery Club ; Fellow of the Phil-
harmonic Society ; Member of the
Musical Association.
^58
Name and Address.
Admitted
on
Livery.
Admitted
Assistant.
Additions.
35- Capt. Adrian Charles
1895
\Memher of the Committee of the Handel
Chamier, F.S.A.
July 22 ;
Society ; Member of Crystal Palace
{late Lincolnshire
Festival Orchestra since 1882.
Jiegt.), 46, Nevern
Square, S.W.
36. John Clementi
189s
CoLLARD, junr.,
Sept. 18
16, Grosvenor Street, W.
37. Alexander Burnett
1899
Brown, F.S.I. ,
April 18
Amberley House,
Norfolk Street,
Strand, W.C.
38. Septimus Croft, J. P.,
1900
St. Margaretsbury,
Jan. 29
Ware, Herts
39. Clifford Blackburn
1900
("Member of the Committee of the
Edgar, Mus. Bac,
July 20
Livery Clue; Represents the Gradu-
London, B.Sc.,J.P.,
ates in Music on the Senate of the
Wedderlie, Queen's
University of Lotidoti; Member of the
Road, Richmond,
Madrigal Society ; Hon. Treasurer
Surrey
Musical Association ; Member of the
Council of Union of Graduates in
Music; President of the Richmond
Philharmonic Society.
40. Charles Lukey
1900
COLLARD,M.A ,B.C.L.,
July 24
4, Temple Gardens,
Temple, B.C.
159
Name and Address.
41. Hugh Wyatt,
I, Tokenhouse Build
ings, E.G.
42. The Rev. Henry
Tiios. Cart, M.A.,
49, Albert Court,
Kensington Gore,
SW.
43. Charles Ernest
Rube,
I, Belgrave Square,
S.W.
44. Sir Ernest Clarke,
M.A., F.S.A.,
13A, Hanover Square,
W.
45-
Admitted
OQ
Livery.
1900
Sept. 26
Admitted
Assistant,
1 90 1
June 14
1901
Oct. 29
Sir George Clement
Martin, M.V.O.,
Mus. Doc,
4, Amen Court,
St. Paul's, E.C.
1901
Dec. 30
1902
Feb. 21
Additions.
Member of the Musical Association.
\Member of the Madrigal Society, and
the Musical Association ; Member
of the Committees of Management
R.AM, and of the Royal Choral
Society Formerly Member of the
Bach Choir.**
f Chairman of the Finance Committee,
and Member of the Council of the
Sunday Concert Society; Life
Member of the Musical Association ;
Lectured on Old Music, at the
Cambridge Antiquarian Society,
1897-8, Reading College, 1899, and
Queen's LLall, 1899.
■\ Organist of St. Paul's Cathedral;
Hon.R.A.M., F.R.C.O ; Assistant
Conductor King Edward VIL.'s
Coronation Choir ; Composer of and
Writer on Music.
i6o
Name and Address.
46. Percy Godfrey,
Mus. Bac. Dunelm ;
27, Palace Street,
Canterbury.
47. William John
Lancaster, J. P.,
South Lynn, Putney
Hill, S.W.
John Frederick
Randall Stainer,
M.A., B.C.L.,
I, New Court, Carey
Street, W.C.
49.
s°.
51
Edward Barclay
HOARE,
iiA, Orchard Street,
Portman Square, W.
Charles James
Powell,
30, Throgmorton Street,
E.C.
Thomas Collingwood
Fenwick,
16, Berners Street, W,
Admitted
on
Livery.
1902
April 4
1902
July 17
1902
July li
1902
July 23
1902
Sept. if
1902
Oct. 31
Admitted
Assistant,
Additions.
A.R.C.M. ; Master of Music, Kin^s
School, Canterbury ; Composer of
the Musicians' Company's Prize
Coronation March, 1902.
t Joint Hon. Sec. of the Loan
Exhibition, 1904; Writer on
Music ; Member of the Madrigal
Society ; Trustee of the Musical
Association.**
fCLERK to the Company.
i6i
Name and Address.
52. William Henry
Perry Leslie,
Broadwoods, Limited,
Conduit Street,
W.
53. The Rev. Robinson
Duckworth, D.D.,
C.V.O.
Little Cloisters,
Westminster Abbey,
S.W.
(Sub-Dean and
Canon of West-
minster, and
Chaplain in Ordin-
ary to the King).
54. William Johnson
Galloway, M.P.,
36, Portman Square,
W.
55. John Berwick
Orgill,
The Junior
Athenseum Club,
Piccadilly, W.
56. William Henry Ash,
J.P.,
51, Hamilton
Terrace, N.W.
Admitted
on
Livery.
1902
Dec. 5
1903
Mar. 2
1903
Apr. 2 J
1903
May 4
1903
May 4
Admitted
Assistant.
Additions.
\ Member of the Council of the Royal
College of Music.
Hon. Chaplain to the Company.
Member of the Madrigal Society ; the
Moray Minstrels and the Allge-
meiner Deutscher Musik- Verein.
l62
-Name and Address.
57. The Right Hon.
George Wynd ham,
M.P.,
35, Park Lane, W.
58. James Boyton,
6, Vere Street, W.
59. Robert Kennerley
RUMFORD,
Compton Lodge,
South Hampstead,
N.W.
60. Stanley Hawley,
19, Oxford Mansion,
Oxford Circus, W.
61. Alfred Louis
Reynolds,
4, Hans Place, S.W.
62. Edward William
NiCHOLLS,
62, Queen's Gardens
Hyde Park, W.
Admitted
on
Livery,
1903
June if
1903
July 14
1903
July 17
1903
July 17
1904
Jan. 19
1904
Jan. 19
Admitted
Assistant,
63. Henry Dexter 1904
Truscott, May 12
89, Holland Park, W,
U (Mrs. Kennerley Rumford, nSe Miss Clara Butt, was the Recipient of the Company's Silver Medal in 1894.)
Admission.
Distinguished Singer.^
First Recipient of the Company's
Silver Medal 1890. Pianist;
Composer of and Writer on Music.
Member of the Madrigal Society, the
Round Catch and Canon Club, the
Philharmonic Society, and the Royal
Choral Society.**
Member of the Royal Amateur Or-
chestral Society.
i63
64.
65-
66.
Name and Address.
George John
Bennett,
Mus. Doc. Cantab.,
Minster Yard,
Lincoln.
Alexander Finlay,
J.P.,
{lateLt.-Col.4thS.S.
Regiment), Little
Brickhill Manor,
Bletchley, Bucks.
John Meade
Falkner, M.A.,
Oxon, The Divinity
House, Durham.
(First Class of the
Osmanieh and First
Class of the Mejidieh)
67. Ernest Markham
Lee, M.A.,
Mus. Doc. Cantab.,
Barclay House,
Woodford Green,
Essex.
Admitted
on
Livery.
1904
May 12
1904
May 12
1904
May 12
1904
May 12
Admitted
Assistant.
Additions.
Organist and Master of the Choristers
of Lincoln Cathedral ; Fellow and
Professor of Harmony and Com-
position, R.A.M., F.R.C.O.; Ex-
aminer Associated Board R.A.M.
and R. CM.; Composer of Music,
and Examiner for Musical Degrees
at the University of London; Mem-
ber of the Philharmonic Society
and the Musical Association.
Member of the Royal Amateur Or-
chestral Society.**
F.R.C.O., Organist of All Saints',
Woodford Green ; Prof essor for the
special preparation of Students for
University Degrees in Music,
G.S.M. ; Examiner of the In-
corporated Society of Musicians ;
Director of the Woodford Green
Chamber Concerts; Composer of
and Writer on Music ; Member of
the Philharmonic Society and
Musical Association.
M 2
164
Name and Address.
Admitted
on
Livery.
Admitted
Assistant.
Additions.
68. Joseph John
BiSGOOD, B.A.
Lend.,
4, Park Hill,
Richmond, Surrey
1904
May 12
69. Sir George
Donaldson,
4, Queen Anne
Street, Cavendish
Square, W.
(Officer of the
Legion of Honour)
1904
May 12
Member of the Committee of Manage-
ment, R.A.M. ; Member of Musical
Association ; Donor and Hon.
Curator of the Donaldson Museum ;
Oni of the English Commissioners
of the St. Louis Exhibition, 1904.
70. Frank Joseph
SAVifYER.Mus.Doc,
Oxon,
5 5,BuckinghamPlace,
Brighton.
1904
Oct. 25
F.R. C. 0. , Professor R. CM.,
Organist and Choirmaster of St.
Patrick's, Hove; Founder and Con-
ductor Brighton and Hove Choral
and Orchestral Society , Composer
of Music.**
71. Avigdor Lewis
Birnstingl,
5, Pembroke Gardens,
Kensington, W.
1904
Oct. 25
72. Hermann Louis
Sternberg,
io,Strathray Gardens,
Eton Avenue,
Hampstead, N.W.
1904
Oct. 25
16S
Name and Address.
Admitted
on
Livery.
73. William Henry
Allen, J. P.
I, Dean's Yard,
Westminster, S.W.
(High Sheriff of Bed-
fordshire igo4)
74. William Arthur
Woltmann,
46, Abbey Road, N.W,
75. Sidney James
Preston,
Gillmon House,
Carshalton, Surrey.
76. Herbert Sullivan,
The Manor House,
Brightlingsea,
Essex.
77. Edgar Speyer,
46, Grosvenor Street,
W.
78. Thomas Mountain,
St. Mary's,
Derby Road,
Bournemouth.
79, Victor Allcard,
Holmesdale,
Teddington.
1904
Oct. 25
1904
Oct. 25
1904
Oct. 25
i9°S
May 2
1905
May 2
i9°S
May 2
Admitted
Assistant,
Additions.
Member of the Felinfoel (Caermar-
then) Musical Society, i860; Hon-
orary Organist of the Felinfoel
Church, 1860-64; Original Member
of the Cardiff Musical Society,
1865 ; Member of the Bedford
Musical Society, iSg^.
Professor of Music ; Violinist.
A.R.C.O., Organist and Director of
the Choir of the Parish Church-
Car shalton.
Member of the Noblemen and Gentle-
men^ s Catch Club.
Member of the Madrigal Society ;
Associate of the Philharmonic
Society; Member of the Royal
College of Organists and the
Musical Association.
1 66
Name and Address.
80. AiME Ferdinand
PiTEL,
Wintons, Park Hill
Road, East Croydon.
5i. Walter Willson
COBBETT,
Pen y Bryn,
Sydenham Hill, S.E.
82. Harold Edward
Webb,
60, Bartholomew
Close, E.C.
83. Henry Milsted,
Fairlight Lawn,
Hornsey Lane, N.
84. Edwin Freshfield,
LL.D., D.L., F.S.A.,
31, Old Jewry, E.C.
85. Albert Gartside
Neville,
Oakhurst, The Knoll,
Beckenham.
Admitted
on
Livery.
I9°5
May 2
i9°S
May 2
1905
May 2
i9°5
May 2
1905
July II
i9°S
July 1 1
Admitted
Assistant,
Additions.
Member of the Council of the Musical
Association, and of the Oxford
and Cambridge Musical Club;
Principal ist Violin of the
" Strolling Flayers " Amateur
Orchestral iiociety ; Writer and
Lecturer on Musical Subjects.
Formerly Member of
Society.
the Madrigal
Elected 6th July, 1880.
167
The following Members elected Ilth July, 1905, are awaiting
Admission.
Name and Address.
Admitted
on
Livery.
Admitted
Assistant.
Additions.
86. Claudius James
Ash,
Broad Street,
Golden Square, W.
87. Robert Septimus
Gardiner,
67, Cadogan Square,
S.W.
88. Sir George Wyatt
Truscott, Suffolk
Lane, E.G.
{Alderman of the
City of London,
Sheriff of London,
ig02).
89. Edwin Marriott
HODGKIN,
1 7, Portland Place, W,
90. Douglas Frederick
Charrington,
2, Mansfield Place,
Richmond, Surrey.
i68
HONORARY FREEMEN.
Date
of
Admission
^M.^^ frince (Christian of Sc|)IesiMitg ^al&tdn, %M;
^MJB.®,^ Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park.
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D., Skibo Castle, Dornoch, Sutherlandshire,
N.B. {President of the Oratorio Society and the Philharmonic Society
of New York).
Samuel Ernest Palmer, io, Grosvenor Crescent, Hyde Park, W.
{Founder of the Berkshire Scholarship and of the Patron's Fund of the
Royal College of Music).
William Hayman Cummings, Mus. Doc, Dublin, F.S.A. {Principal of
the Guildhall School of Music), Victoria Embankment, E.C.
The Rev. Francis William Galpin, M.A., F.L.S,, Hatfield Broad Oak,
Harlow, Essex.
1905
July 18
1904
May 12
1904
Julys
1905
Jan. 17
1905
Jan. r7
169
APPRENTICES.
Name.
Master.
Edwin Charles Hodgkin,
17, Portland Place, W.
Arthur F. Hill,
In the Art of Violin
Playing.
John Carrington Gibson,
44, Canfield Gardens,
South Hampstead, N.W.
E. Ernest Cooper,
In the Art of Violon-
cello Playing.
Stanley Clarence Edgar,
Westminster School, S.W.
E. Ernest Cooper.
In the Art of Singing.
170
INDEX TO THE ROLL OF THE
COMPANY.
]
Liverymen.
NO. IN
NO. IN
LIST.
LIST.
AUcard, V.
■ ■ 79
Forbes, E. B.
... 19
Allen, W. H.
- 73
Freshfield, Dr. E.
... 84
Ash, C. J
.. 86
Frisby, H. R. ...
5
Ash, W. H.
.. 56
Fuller, W. P.
.. 23
Bennett, Dr. G.J.
.. 64
Gadsdon, G. J. ...
••• 3
Birnstingl, A. L
•■ 7>
Galloway, W. J. ...
... 54
Bisgood, J. J
,. 68
Gardiner, R. S. ...
... 87
Brandt, R.E
•• 34
Godfrey, P.
... 46
Bridge, Sir J. F
.. II
Goldschmidt, O. ...
... 22
Brown, A. B
Boyton, J.
" 37
.. 58
Hadden, Rev. R. H.
... 20
Hawley, Stanley...
... 60
Cart, Rev. H.T
.. 42
Herring, W.C. ...
... 8
Charrington, D. F.
.. 90
Hill, A. F
... 29
Chamier, Capt. A. C. .
•• 35
Hoare, E. B.
... 49
Chappell, E
.. 24
Hoblyn, CD. ...
... 27
Clarke, Sir Ernest
■• 44
Hodgkin,E. M. ...
... 89
Cobbett, W. W
. 81
Hoyte, Dr. W. S.
... 31
Cock, H
.. 30
Hunter, A. C. ...
... 15
Coliard, C. L
.. 40
Jones, T. P.
I
Collard, J. C
•• 7
CoUard, J. C, jun.
.. 36
Knight, J. B.
2
Cooper, E. E
•• 17
Lancaster, W. J
... 47
Crawford, Sir H.
•• 13
Lee, Dr. E. Markham
... 67
Crews, C. T. D. ...
.. 14
Leslie, W.H. P.,..
... 52
Croft, S
.. 38
Lescher, F. H. ...
... 9
Donaldson, Sir George
.. 69
Littleton, A. H. ...
... 26
Duckworth, Rev. Cane
>n 53
Martin, Sir G. C,
... 45
Milsted, H.
... 83
Edgar, C.B.
•• 39
Moul.A
... 25
Mountain, T.
... 78
Falkner, J. M. ...
.. 66
Fenwick, T. C. ...
•• S«
Neville, A. G. ...
... 85
Finlay, Col. A. ...
.. 6s
Nicholls, E. W. ...
... 62
171
NO. IN
LIST.
NO. IN
LIST.
OrgiU, J. B.
• 55
Street, J. E.
.. 12
Pitel, A. F.
. 80
Southgate, T. L. ...
.. 18
Powell, C. J.
■ 50
Sullivan, H.
.. 76
Preston, S. J.
• 75
Truscott, Sir G. W.
.. 88
Reynolds, A. L....
. 61
Truscott, H. D. ...
.. 63
Rose, A. S.
• 32
Rube, C. E.
• 43
Vert, N
.. 64
Rumford, R. Kennerley
59
Warrick, F.W. ...
.. 28
Santley, C.
. 21
Warrick, R. B. ...
., 6
Sawyer, F.J.
• 70
Webb, E. A.
.. 10
Shaw-Hellier, Col
T. B
33
Webb, H. E. ...
.. 82
Skilbeck, J. H. ..
• 4
Westrope, J.
.. 16
Speyer, E.
• 77
Woltmann, W. A.
.. 74
Stainer, J. F. R. ..
. 48
Wyatt, H
.. 41
Sternberg, H. L.
• 72
Wyndham, Rt. Hon. G.
•• 57
Honorary Freemen.
\M.^. ^xinci ffifjttgttan n£ Scijkgtoig l^olsttin, it.©., ffi.CU.i
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D.
Samuel Ernest Palmer.
W. H. Cummings, Mus. Doc.
Rev. F. W. Galpin.
Page 168.
Apprentices.
E. C. Hodgkin.
J. C. Gibson.
S. C. Edgar.
Page 169.
173
THE LIVERY CLUB
of
THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF
MUSICIANS.
bounded 1962.
President.
Sir HOMEWOOD CRAWFORD.
Committee.
ROBERT E. BRANDT, Esq.
CLIFFORD B. EDGAR, Esq., Mus. Bac, J.P.
The Rev. R. H. HADDEN, M.A.
C. D. HOBLYN, Esq.
Honorary Treasurer.
ARTHUR F. HILL, Esq., F.S.A.
Honorary Secretary.
A. C. HUNTER, Esq.
The Livery Club was founded on the loth of
March, 1902, by some Members of the Company
who felt that the Annual Livery Dinner did not
174
afford sufficient means of personal intercommuni-
cation between the Members, and that the
interests of the Company and its usefulness to
the Art of Music would be enhanced by the
formation of a Club or Union of Members
whereby more frequent opportunities for social
intercourse would be afforded.
The movement has been singularly successful.
In its first year no less than 34 out of the 59
Liverymen became Members. Mr. C. D. Hoblyn
(the Master of the Company) was elected first
President
The first Meeting of the Club took place on
the 26th of May, 1902, when the Members dined
at the Holborn Restaurant. A programme of
music of the period of 1604 followed the dinner
as an entertainment.
In October, 1902, the first edition of this
book was compiled and privately issued by the
Club, a copy being sent to every Member of the
Company with the object of furnishing full
information concerning the Company.
The importance of the Club, and its unique
position as being the only Livery Club, were
quickly recognised, and on the 12th of May,
1903, the Worshipful Company of Innholders
generously lent their historic Hall for a dinner
of the Club.
Subsequently Meetings were held at De
Keyser's Royal Hotel. On each occasion the
Music provided has been of an exceptionally high
order and of great interest to Musicians.
The President (Sir Homewood Crawford) and
Committee, having regard to the ancient juris-
diction of the Company over Dancing Masters
and Dancing Men, arranged for a Programme
of "^ Ancient Dances," which was given under the
direction of Miss Nellie Chaplin, at Queen's
Gate Hall, on the 24th of May last.
Under the arrangement which the Musicians'
Company has lately made with the Worshipful
Company of Stationers, the future Meetings of
the Club can be held at the Stationers' Hall.
The connection of the Stationers' Company with
Music and its former observance of St. Cecilia's
Festival (22nd of November) are referred to else-
where, but it -is interesting to note, that in 1904,
the Club determined to revive the observance of
this Festival, and, whenever practicable, to hold
its annual meeting on that day.
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The Rules of the Club provide only for the
Membership of Liverymen. It is, however,
proposed to arrange for the admission of
Honorary Freemen as Associates.
Rules-
I.
The name of the Club is "THE LiVERY
Club of the Worshipful Company of
Musicians."
II.
The Members shall be Liverymen of the
Worshipful Company of Musicians, and elected
by the Committee of Management.
III.
The objects of the Club are to promote the
interests of the Company and its usefulness to
the Art of Music ; and to increase the opportuni-
ties of its Members for social intercourse.
IV.
The Annual Subscription shall be ;£'i is. od.,
but Liverymen of the Company residing at least
25 miles from London may be admitted to
Membership at a reduced Annual Subscription
of I OS. 6d.
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V.
The Club year shall begin on 1st October, and
the Annual Subscriptions shall be payable as
from that date.
VI.
The Officers of the Club shall be the Presi-
dent, Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secre-
tary, who shall be elected annually at the first
meeting in the Club year, and these, together
with three or more other Members of the Club
to be similarly elected, shall form the Committee
of Management, three to form a quorum.
Presidents of the Livery Club.
1902.
Mr. C. D. Hoblyn.
1903.
Sir Frederick Bridge, Mus.Doc, M.V.O.
1904-1905.
Sir Homewood Crawford.
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Members of the Livery Club.
Allen, W. H.
Ash, W. H.
Birnstingl, A. L.
Bisgood, J. J.
Boyton, J.
Brandt, R. '^.{Committee).
Bridge, Sir J. Fredk.
Brown, A. B.
Cart, Rev. H.
Chamier, Capt. A. C.
Clarke, Sir Ernest.
CoUard, C. L.
Collard, J. C.
Cooper, E. Ernest.
Crawford, Sir Homewood.
(President).
Crews, C. T. D.
Croft, S.
Duckworth, Rev. Canon.
Edgar, C. B. {Committee).
Falkner, J. Meade.
Fenwick, T. C.
Finlay, Colonel A.
Forbes, E. B.
Freshfield, Dr. E.
Fuller, W. P.
Godfrey, Percy J.
Hadden, Rev. R. H.
( Committee).
Hawley, Stanley.
Herring, William C.
Hill, Arthur F.
{Hon. Treasurer",,
Hoare, E. B.
Hoblyn, C. D.
{Committee).
Hunter, A. C.
{Hon. Secretary).
Lancaster, W. J.
Lescher, F. Harwood.
Leslie, W. H. P.
Littleton, A. H.
Martin, Sir G. C.
M listed, H.
Mountain, P.
Neville, A. G.
Nicholls, E. W.
Orgill, J. B.
Pitel, A. T.
Preston, S. J.
Reynolds, A. L.
Rube, C.
Rumford, R. Kennerley.
Shaw-Hellier, Col. T. B.
Southgate, T. L.
Speyer, Edgar.
Stainer, J. F. R.
Sternberg, H. L.
Street, J. F.
Sullivan, Herbert.
Truscott, H. D.
Warrick, R, B.
Webb, Harold E.
Woltmann, W. A.
Wyatt, H. K.
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