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The Early English

Chapel, Windsor, at Rugby, Lyme Regis and Greenwich, and who died in 1672; and George Dalham who is mentioned in 1672 as "that excellent organ maker dwelling in Purple Lane, next door to the Crooked Billet." But the builder employed at King's College, Cambridge, in 1606, was clearly older than the three just mentioned, who may in all likelihood have been his sons, following their father's profession.

The accounts I have mentioned purport to be "The charges about the organs, etc., from June 22, 1605, to August 7, 1606." They are so highly interesting that I shall quote a few of the most important items:

"Imprimis payd to Mr. Dallam for his journey from London to Cambridge before he tooke the work in hand, xvs.

"Item for his and his menes charges of their journey coming down to work, xs.

"Item for a thousand six hundred of tynn at 3li. 12s. le c., lvijli. xijs.

"Item for carriage of the premisses being