INTRODUCTION 3 
try. For example, James I took his English choristers, men and 
children, with him on his journey to Scotland in 1617,—greatly 
offending his countrymen thereby.* 
A place of service was provided at the royal expense ; likewise 
residence for members of the chapter, their keep, and also to all 
but the children? a yearly salary. 
Since the Restoration, the King’s Chapel occupied by the chap- 
‘ter has been the little oratory of St. James’s Palace. But in 
James I’s time it was the splendidly appointed chapel at White- 
hall, London.’ This was used, not only for the religious services 
of the royal household, but for the solemnization of treaties be- 
tween Spain and England, and France and England; royal and 
noble baptisms, churchings, and confirmations; marriages of nu- 
merous of the nobility in presence of the King; the marriage of 
Princess Elizabeth and Frederick Prince Elector Count Palatine 
of the Rhine in 1613; the funeral of James I in 1625; the corona- 
tion of Charles I, &c.* 
On all these and such occasions the Gentlemen of the Chapel 
partook in the services and shared in the fees,—often 5 /. each.® 
*A humorous bit of satire on 
Scottish manners and customs, evi- 
dently written by an Englishman in 
James I’s retinue on this journey, 
describes how the Scotch received 
and entertained the King, how they 
felt about his religious forms, and 
especially about the “singing men” 
and the Children of the Chapel. 
The document was printed in a 
pamphlet of twenty-one pages at 
London, 1659, under title, 4 Perfect 
Description of the People and Coun- 
try of Scotland, which is reprinted 
in Francis Osborne, Secret History 
of the Court of James the First 
(1811), II, 75-89. See appositely 
iin 69,- 80: 
The original MS. is preserved in 
the British Museum. For the most 
pertinent part see Harvl. MS. No. 
444, fol. 276a. J. P. Collier, History 
of English Dramatic Poetry and 
Annals of the Stage (1879"), I, 391, 
printed the paragraph on the chil- 
dren only. 
*The warrant in State Papers, 
Dec. 15, 1604 (u. s., 2°) shows 
the children were on this date al- 
lowed an additional 4d. daily,—not 
as salary, but “as an augmentation 
of their board wages.” This war- 
rant was drawn in accordance with 
the general grant of augmentation 
of salaries in the Chapel Royal se- 
cured through the influence of sev- 
eral persons, among whom was 
Nathaniel Gyles, Master of the chil- 
dren. The grant was dated Dec. 
5, 1604. It is printed in The Old 
Cheque-Book, op. cit., 60, and in 
John Nichols, The Progresses, Pro- 
cessions and Magiifhicent Festivities 
of King Jaries the First (1828). I, 
466, from Sir John Hawkins, A 
General History of the Science and 
Practice of Music (1776), IV, 11- 
12. [Nichols errs in saying he takes 
it from p. 15.] 
*See Rev. John Jebb, The Choral 
Service of the United Church of 
England and Ireland (1843), 148. 
“See notices of these various uses 
of the Chapel Royal in The Old 
Cheque-Book (u. s.), passim. 
*Tdem. 
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