Books › 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 › scan 18
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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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1"our souls when we shall have departed from
2"this world, as also for the soul of our most
3"dear lord and father, Richard, late Duke of York,
4"and for the souls of our renowned progenitors,
5"and for all the faithful departed, both in the
6"Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary within the
7"Cathedral Church of St. Paul in London, and in
8"our Royal Free Chapel of St. Anthony in our
9"same City of London."
11Moreover, part of the fines levied upon offending brethren was assigned to the provision by the Guild of "wax candles, commonly called tapers," in the Chapels named.
13A Picturesque Incident.
15It will be noted that the Minstrels of the county of Chester are exempted from the jurisdiction 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 Duttons of Dutton in Cheshire," in which family was vested jurisdiction over the Minstrels and "other Vagrants" of the county. This authority was conferred upon Hugh de Dutton in the time of King John by Randle, third Earl of Chester, under the following circumstances:—
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