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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1Pages from the
2History of the Company.
4THE 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 English 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 opening of the seventeenth century. Incomplete as they are, it is felt that a glance at them will be acceptable to the reader.
6An Early Charter.
8The 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
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