HARRIS. 
court, and was buried in Norton church, at the ex- 
nee of John Godfrey, efg. who had been his y ia ae 
fort De nefattor 
Har sy JAMES Ss fon 
Norton 
arge property reti 
biglat to the 
Ihaftr ‘ate 
n 
ied ie eeu pe entitled “ 7 bicai or a 
learn ooke, who, for more than 
otge years, ve Ai to have borne Baie! ‘the palm, by his work 
entitled Ewes I /ecosvia. ‘There e, however, who hold 
this work extremely cheap, sin who f ‘ifadhere to the theory 
of Me mott learned, moft rational, and moft in- 
. (See our rail Grammar.) Mr. Harris was no 
lefs a votary of the fine arts than of fcience. He wa was par- 
ticularly fenfible to the charms of muific, and under his pa- 
tronage the annual mufical ‘feftivals at Salifbury greatly 
flourithed. In 1761 he obtained a feat ‘in parliament for the 
— of Chriltchurch, aig in the following year he was 
of the lords commiffioners of 
Ariltotle tle, os Id 
in 1780, es « Philolegscal Ene 2s? In: the fame 
he died, at the age ‘of feventy-two. amepen 
ened knowledge of the Greek ge, which 
ria ; ; 
be an 2 account of is lifey in two vols. 
¥en. XVII. fcholar, ak tok wake and refpeétable 
charatter, in the early part of his life, cultivated mufic with 
as much affiduity as the learned Rie and Categories 
of Ariftotle. In his ingenious ‘ Eflay on Mufic,’’ he illuf- 
trates his precepts and reflexions almoft exclufively from 
ith the times in the refinement 
va ough and nn sae Sener hae dy 
nis fenior, and Renatus Hannis, hi’ ve two 
abe organ-builders, called hither from France, foon after 
the reftoration, to fupply our churches with inftruments, 
which, during the grand rebellion and the interregnum, had 
been injured, baie, or e excellent work- 
inferi m_Renatus, 
"The contention between thefe eminent artifts, at the time 
of ereéting the admirable organ which ftill ftands in. the 
‘emple-church, was carried on with fuch fpirit, not to fay 
violence, as perhaps never happened before, or. fince, on 
fimilar occafion 
About the Nethce end of the reign of Charles II., the 
matter of the Temple and the benchers being determined’ to 
as complete au organ ereéted in their church as poffible, 
Fal friends and celebrated organifts, t 
eterrhine among themfelves which to employ. 
fore told the candidates, if each of them would ereé an 
would retain 
ment ready for trial. ud way livin 
intimate acquaintance of both, fays that 
cell, then in their prime, performed on ter Smith’s organ, 
on ‘appointed ids and difplayed its excellence ; and, till 
y 
a other was heard, every one believed that this mult be 
Fark employed M. Lullie, organift to queen es howe 
a very.eminent mafter, to touch his organ, w 
it into favour; and thus they continued vying 
other for near a twelve-month, 
At length, Harris challenged father Smith to make ad- 
ditional reed-itops in a given time ; thefe were the vox-hu- 
mana, cromorne, the double paint or double baffoon, and 
fome others. 
The flops which were newly invented, or at leaft new to 
xo lith ears, ve great delight to the crowds who attended 
Pale fer the imitations er fo exatt and pleafing on - 
aa poly i it was difficul ine who beft 
fucceeded. At length, the ecioie was left to lord ‘aut 
juttice Jefferi es, afterwards kin seu 11.’s pliant chancellor, 
who was of that fociety, and he terminated the controverfy 
in favour of fat Smith ; fo that oie a organ was 
away wi lofs of re cages having fo long pleafed and 
puszled better judges than Jefferies, 
The Hon. R ong who was in London at the time 
the contention at the Temple-church, lg a 
moirs of Mufic, thet the ee between { fn 
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