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pupil* for the harpsichord and violin. That one of 

 principal members of the Pump- room baod fluMiH be 

 ppoioUd organist in the newly erected Octagon Chapel 

 U meet likely, ami he nams to BAT* occupied the port for 

 about nine years. *k grail delight in * choir of 



singera who performed ihe cathedral service at the Octagon 

 Cha| horn he oompOMd many excellent anthems, 



chant*, and psalm tunea." Caroline Heretihel nHt : " Thu> 

 anthem waa left with the reat of my brother's sacred com- 

 positions, which were left in tnwt with one of the rhorietef*. 

 All in Ut. \v .. -i .-', ,, many yean after, one 



urn waa recovered, and when I waa in Bath in 1800 I 

 obtained two or three torn hooka of odd part*" 



i.-ratand why the composition* were left at all, 

 .still more to understand what Mr. Linley had to do with the 

 matt. 10 chorister's wife openly charged .V 



with having taken poeaesaion of these treasures." ' 



The story in Campbell's magazine proceeds : lliam 



punned his profession at Bath for some years, K 

 by a numerous circle of friends, and increasing in fame and 

 n\" Whether this was fact or poetic licence may be 

 matter of debate ; but the words attributed by the writer to 

 King George in., that " Henchel should not sacrifice his 

 valuable time to crotchets and quavers," may justly be 

 accepted as genuine. And the two sentences with whi 

 notice concludes go far to prove that the writer of it waa the 

 poet-editor himself: "Sir William poaseated 'the milk of 

 human kindness' in an eminent degree, and waa most 

 anxious to gratify his numerous visitors by explaining 'the 

 complicated machinery of his mind ' in the simplest 

 possible. No one ever returned from his hospitable 

 without feeling gratified with the urbanity of the man, and 

 improved by the productions of his genius." 



A relic of these early days is still preserved at Bath in the 



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