WORTHIES: MUSICIANS, CAPTAIN STUMP. 81 



Andrew Markes, of Salisbury, where his father was a fiddle maker, was the best lutinist in 

 England in his time sc. the latter end of Queen Elizabeth and King James, and the best composer 

 of lute lessons ; and as to his compositions, Mr. Sam. Cowper, the famous limner, who was an 

 excellent lutinist, did affirme that they are of great value to this tune. 



Jo. Coperario, whose reall name I have been told was Cowper, and Alfonso Ferraboseo, lived 

 most in Wiltshire, sc. at Amesbury, and Wulfall, with Edward Earle of Hertford, who was the 

 great patrone of musicians. 



Davys Mell, born at Wilton, was the best violinist of any Englishman in England : he also took 

 a fancy to make clocks and watches, and had a great name for the goodness of his work. He was 

 of the King's musick, and died in London about 1663. 



.... Bell, of Wilton, was sagbuttere to King Charles the First, and was the most excellent 

 artist in playing on that instrument, which is very difficult, of any one in England. He dyed about 

 the restauration of the King. 



Humphrey Madge, of Salisbury, was servant bound to Sir John Danvers, and afterwards one of 

 the violinists to King Charles the Second. 



Will. Yokeney, a lutinist and a composer of songs, e. g. of Colonel Lovelace's songs, &c. was born 

 at Lacock, 1646. Among other fine compositions of songs by Will. Yokeney, this following ought to 

 be remembred, made 1646 or 1647, viz. : 



" What if the King should come to the city, 



Would he be then received I trow ? 

 Would the Parliament treat him with rigor or pity ? 

 Some doe think yea, but most doe think no, &c.'* 



It is a lively, briske aire, and was playd by the lowd musick when King Charles the Second made 

 his entry in London at his restauration. 



Captain Thomas Stump, of Malmesbury. 'Tis pity the strange adventures of him should be for- 

 gotten. He was the eldest sonn of Mr. Will. Stump, rector of Yatton Keynell ; was a boy of a 

 most daring spirit ; he would climbe towers and trees most dangerously ; nay, he would walke on the 

 battlements of die tower there. He had too much spirit to be a scholar, and about sixteen went in a 

 voyage with his uncle, since Sir Thomas Ivy, to Guyana, in anno 1633, or 1632. When the ship put 

 in some where there, four or five of them straggled into the countrey too far, and in the 

 interim the wind served, and the sailes were hoist, and the stragglers left behind. It was not long 

 before the wild people seized on them and strip't them, and those that had beards they knocked their 

 braines out, and (as I remember) did eat them ; but the queen saved T. Stump, and the other boy. 

 Stump threw himself into the river Oronoque to have drowned himself, but could not sinke ; he is 

 very full chested. The other youth shortly died. He lived with them till 1636 or 1637. His 

 narrations are very strange and pleasant ; but so many yeares since have made me almost forgett all. 

 He sayes there is incomparable finite there, and that it may be termed the paradise of the world. 

 He says that the spondyles of the backbones of the huge serpents there are used to sit on, as our 

 women sitt upon butts. He taught them to build hovills, and to thatch and wattle. I wish I had a 

 good account of his abode there ; he is fide dignus. I never heard of any man that lived so long 

 among those salvages. A ship then sayling by, a Portuguese, he swam to it ; and they took him up 

 and made use of him for a seaboy. As he was sayling near Cornwall he stole out of a port-hole and 

 swam to shore ; and so begged to his father's in Wiltshire. When he came home, nobody knew 

 him, and they would not own him : only Jo. Harris the carpenter knew him. At last he recounted 

 so many circumstances that he was owned, and in 1642 had a commission for a Captain of Foot in 

 King Charles the First's army. 



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