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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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1school of dancing. In 1561 an order was issued calling upon Minstrels, not being free of the City Fellowship, to be obedient to its Wardens.
3In 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 reformation was propounded. It begins by reciting that the ancient Company of Minstrels
5"hath of late tyme not only much decayed but also
6"hath bynne brought into contempt and hatryd by
7"occasion of sondry disorders and inormyties vsed
8"by persounes exercisinge that arte being not sub-
9"jecte to the good lawes and ordinaunces of the
10"Company, to the great dishonour of the Cittye,
11"disfurniture of that service, pestering of the
12"Cittye with multitudes of apprentices, dishonest-
13"inge of the said arte and greate occasion of
14"vnchast, wastful, lewde and dangerous practises
15"amonges good citizens children and apprentices."
17With 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.
19A New Charter.
21In 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 comes that in 1604 we find the Society of Minstrels of London petitioning the Crown for a new Charter of Incor-
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