720 



unprecedented expense on its organ. It hired Dallam, the 

 most celebrated organ-builder of his time, and kept him with 

 two of his men at work on the instrument for 58 weeks, from 

 June 1605 to August 1606. The College bought 16 cwt. of 

 tin and 6 cwt. of lead, a large quantity of wainscot and other 

 board. It bought nine hundred of leaf- gold at Js. 6d. the 

 hundred. It paid ics. for the carriage of Dallam's tools, being 

 four hundred-weight. It hired sawyers and joiners for months, 

 and laid out in the whole 371 17^. id. in labour and materials, 

 besides >6 for charcoal and candles, and ;i8 6s. 8d. for 

 Dallam's commons and those of his two men in hall, including 

 bread and beer. The organ was dismantled, and the tin pipes 

 in great part sold by the intrusive fellows, though less than 

 three hundredweight is acknowledged in their accounts. It is 

 not known at King's College whether any of Dallam's work is 

 still in existence. 



In 1613 Eton College employed Dallam to build them an 

 organ. Here however it appears that they purchased the pipes 

 from the builder, the particulars being given in vol. vi. p. 587, 

 col. iii. The total cost to the College was 123 is. id., so 

 that the Eton instrument must have been greatly inferior to 

 that built by King's. College. 



In 1663 New College, Oxford, determined on rebuilding its 

 organ, which had no doubt been wasted during the Civil War. 

 Now in 1662 the College account for the year states that 

 gifts had been made for the new organ to the amount of 

 440 i$s. 4d., while the account for the next year states that 

 the cost of the instrument was ^426 ics. Jd. In 1665 the 

 College added a flute stop to the organ at the cost of 5. 

 The record does not inform us as to who was the builder. 

 Mr. Hopkins, in Grove's Dictionary, says it was built by Robert 

 Dallam, but puts it under 1661. The College account is 

 conclusive. 



During the Civil War and the Commonwealth there is not 

 a single entry which is distinctive of the chapel service, beyond 

 one of seven chapel books at a cost of less than 6d. each at 



