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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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1With 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 "exercyse 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 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
3"dyverse and menie artyfycers and handye crafts
4"men, as tayllers, showmakers, and such others,
5"leving the vse and exercyse of their crafts and
6"manuell occupacions and giving themselves wholy
7"to wandering abrode, ryott, vyce, and idlenes, doe
8"commonly vse nowe a dayes to singe songs called
9"Thre mens songs in the Taverns, ale houses,
10"Innes, and such other places of this Cytie and
11"also at weadings, &c.,"
13they are forbidden so to do, inasmuch as the practice tended to the "greate losse, preiudycce and hindraunce of the said poore fellowship of the Mynstrells of the said Cytie." It is also forbidden to any person "foren or freman" to keep or teach any
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