Curteys, a Lutinist, lately Professor, the best at the Lute in all England. He sometimes play'd on the Lute, but mostly presided the consort. ejected from some choire Jackson, a Bass-Violist. lately of Ch. Church. or Cath. Church. Tho. Edward Low, Organist He played only on the Organ; so when he performed his part, Mr Ellis would take up a Counter-Tenor Viol, and play, if any person were wanting to perform that part. Gervace Littleton alias Westcot, or Westcot alias Littleton, a Violist. Will. Glexney, who had belonged to a choire before the warr. He was after new comer. wards a Gent. or singing man of Ch. Ch. He played well upon the Bass-Viol, and somtimes sung his part. Proctor, a yong man and a John Parker, one of the Universitie Musitians, would be somtimes amongst them, but Mr Low, a proud man, could not endure any common Musitian to come to the meeting, much less to play among them. Among these I must put Joh. Haselwood, an Apothecary, a starch'd formal clister-pipe, who usually play'd on the BassViol, and sometimes on the Counter-Tenor. He was very conceited of his skil (tho' he had but little of it) and therefore would be ever and anon ready to take up a viol before his betters: which being observed by all, they usually call'd him, Handlewood." The following is the account he gives of his own progress in music while learning. He says that in the year 1651 he began "to exercise his natural and insatiable genie he had to musick. He exercised his hand on the violin, and having a good eare to take any tune at first hearing, he could quickly draw it out from the violin, but not with the same tuning of strings that others used." In another place, he says that “he set and tuned in strings in fourths, and not in fifths according to the manner: and having a good eare, and being ready to sing any tune upon hearing it once or twice, he would play them all in short time with the said way of tuning, which was never knowne before." After he had spent the summer of 1653 at Cassington, in "a lonish and retir'd condition, he return'd to Oxon; and being advised by some persons, he entertain'd a Master of Musick to teach him the usual way of playing on the violin, that is, by having every string tuned 5 notes lower than the other going before. The Master was Charles Griffith, one of the Musitians belonging to the City of Oxon, whom he thought then to be a most excellent artist; but when A. W. improv'd himself in that Instrument, he found him not so. He gave him 2s. 6d. entrance, and 10s. quarterly." INDEX. Abbot. George, 331. Arbuthnot, Dr, 191, 292. Ascham, R., 323. Athenæus, 211. Aubrey, J., 314. ham, 307. Buckingham, Duke of, 171, 267. Burke, E., 56, 91. Augerville, Rich., Bishop of Dur- Burnet, Bishop, 151. Bacon, F., 100, 109. Beaumont and Fletcher, 208. Burton, R., 184. Button, 243. Buxton, Jedediah, 159. Cæsar, Sir Julius, 107. Camoëns, L., 271. Canning, G., 12, 13, 29, 57. Carteret, Lord, 257. Castlereagh, Lord, 12. Chapelain, M., 220. Charles I., 44, 141, 320, 330. - II., 207, 252, 267. Charles XII. of Sweden, 148. Cheke, Sir J., 321-323. - Colley, 112, 313. Clarendon, Lord, 215. Coleridge, S. T., viii., 29, 215, 226, 303, 305, 330. Cowley, A., 122, 123, 270, 278, Dryden, J., 59, 120, 146, 171, 252, 305. Dundonald, Lord, 69. Edward IV., 92, 93. the Black Prince, 282, 283. W., 349, 351. Fairfax, General, 309. Foote, S., 170, 179. Fox, C. J., 29, 52, 84, 240, 265, 274. - John, 296-300. Fraser of Bray, 204. Frederick the Great, 114, 117, 133. Frere, Hookham, 8, 13, 57, 154 Ganieres, M. de, 317. Garrick, G., 63, 150, 162, 182, 224, 283-287, 290, 313, 320. Garth, Sir S., 242. Gay, J., 181, 292, 301, 302. George III., 25, 26, 42, 91, 189. Gilbert, 338. Girardin, Madame de, 172. Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 307, 309, 326, 327. Godwin, W., 83. - - Bishop, 309. Goldsmith, O, 325, 326. Goodall, Dr, 209. Grammont, Count, 91. Granville, Lord, 303. Grattan, H., 118, 119, 149. Gray, T., 3, 46. 278, 279. Grenville, Lord, 74, 75, 85. Guizot, M., 29. Hamilton, Count, gr. Hampden, J., 215. Handel, 45, 46, 111, 139. Hayley, W., 280, 281. Hazlitt, W., 19, 29, 30, 33, 58, 100, 132, 153, 168, 180. Hearne, T., 260-263, 310, 328. Henry IV. of France, 82, 83, 129. Hogarth, W., 114-116, 191. Dr T., 331. Homer, 101, 251, 252. Howes, Edmund, 295. Hudson, G., 50. - Jeffrey, 109. Huet, M., 158, 244. Hume, J., 179, 257, 258. Hunt, Leigh, 305. 317. Knighton, Sir W., 143. La Fayette, Madame, 244. Leland, John, 198, 199. Locke, John, 229; Longueville, Duchesse de, 329. Luttrell, 6. Lyndhurst, Lord, 113. Lyttelton, Lord, 133-136. Lytton, Lord, 162. Macaulay, 165, 215, 259. Hyde, Thomas, 310. Mackintosh, Sir J., 129, 138. Jackson, Thomas, 351. James I., 146, 147, 167, 204, 289, Malary, 296–300. Mallet, D., 150. Mandeville, B., 276. Mansfield, Lord, 86, 148. Mara, Madame, 111. Marlborough, Duke of, 150, 151, 218. |