entered for "organs" to John Chamberlayne. Nothing whatever is known of this builder further than he resided in London[1]
Thomas Smyth was an organ builder resident in London in the early part of the sixteenth century. A payment to him is thus recorded in the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, under the date of 1514:
"Item. Paid to Thomas Smyth, organemaker, for mendyng of the grete orgones, xls., and for the small orgones, vs."
Another contemporary builder was a Sir William Argall, a priest, who made an organ for Lambeth Church, in 1517, for the small sum of 10s.
A curious document was discovered, in 1862, among the old papers, in the church chest of Allhallows, Barking, of which a copy was kindly forwarded to me by the late, George Corner, F.S.A. It purports to be "An Indenture, or Contract, between the Churchwardens of Allhallows, Barking, and Anthony
- ↑ See Appendix II.
