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as he lived—and he lived to his 86th year—did the same for them 
in the principal Church of their city, to the universal satisfaction 
of the citizens. He likewise was the author of two volumes of very 
great utility to young students in music. . . . . J also have 
JSollowed in the steps of my relatives, by filling the same office as 
my father for the Olivetans.” 
Of his own passion for music he gives, in another of his little 
writings, the following account :— I was born in 1516, Both my 
parents died when I was of tender age, but an uncle took care of 
me. Having but slender means I was sent into the country for 
maintenance; but that kind of life not pleasing me I went to 
Ferrara to learn music, my paternal art.” He adds that “he 
retained the strongest impression of his father’s brilliant performance 
on. the organ in the Church of St. Mary. It was such as would 
have tamed any bear or Hyrcanian wild beast.” 
If then there were any human animals of this sort in King 
Henry’s Court at Greenwich, here were several of the De Padua or 
Padovani family capable of playing the part of Orpheus. 
King Henry’s fine ear and partiality for the organ would not be 
likely to allow him to put up very long with the bad playing of the 
year 1515: and though he could not at that time have employed as a 
reformer this John Paduanius of Verona, who was not born till 1516, 
he might very well have engaged him when 26 years of age, in 
1542, when (according to the first patent) our John of Padua’s 
musical services began. 
2.—If, however, it should be thought (as it probably may), that 
_I have not suceeeded in identifying this John Paduanius of Verona 
with the John of Padua we are in search of, I have another string 
to my bow: a second claimant, in the person of the “‘ Giovanni 
Maria” of Venice, spoken of above in Nicolo Sagudino’s letter from 
the English Court, as a foreigner to whom they looked for compo- 
sitions in music for state entries and dances. Now this Giovanni 
Maria’s family name was also “‘ De Padua,” or ‘‘ Padovani.” 
The late Mr. Rawdon Browne, well known for his elaborate re- 
searches into Venetian archives, being applied to for some possible 
information about any “ John of Padua,” was so obliging as to obtain 
