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remarked, " be behaved as one bred up at court, yet without a ; 

 " courtier's fervility." 



, On our coming to town this lafl time, he fent Dr.Boyce the lafl 

 anthem he had made. The Doctor thought, from its correctnefs, 

 that Charles muft have helped him in it ; but Charles aflured 

 him that he never aflifted him, otherwife than by telling him, if 

 he alked, whether fuch or fuch a paflage were good harmony ; 

 and the Doctor was fo fcrupulous, that when Charles mewed him 

 an improper note he would not fuffer it to be altered. 



Mr. Madan now carried him to more of the firft mafters. Mr. 

 Abel wrote him a fubject, and declared, " Not three mafters in 

 ** town could have anfwered it fo well." 



Mr. Cramer took a great liking to him, offered to teach him 

 the violin, and played fome Trios with Charles and him. He fent 

 a man to take meafure of him for a fiddle ; and is confident a very 

 few leflbns would fet him up for a violinift. 



Sam often played the fecond, and fometimes the firft, fiddle, 

 with Mr. Treadway, who declared " Giardini himfelf could not 

 ** play with greater exact nefs." 



Mr. Madan brought Dr. N. to my houfe, who could not be- 

 lieve that a boy could write an oratorio, play at fight, and pur- 

 fue any given fubject. He brought two of the King's boys, who 

 fang over feveral fongs and chorufes in Ruth. Then he pro- 

 duced two bars of a fugue. Sam worked this fugue very readily 

 and well, adding a movement of his own ; and then a voluntary 

 on the organ, which quite removed the Doctor's incredulity. 



At the Rehearfal at St. Paul's Dr. Boyce met bis brother Sam ; 

 and fhewing him to Dr. H. told him : " This boy will foon fur- 

 " pafs ^you all." Shortly after he came to fee us, took up a 

 Jubilate which Sam had lately wrote, and commended it as one 

 of Charles's ; when we told him whofe it was, he declared he 



Q^q could 



