organe case." The Parish Registers of this church, under the date July 26th, 1567, record the burial of "James Dempsey, organe maker." It was in the establishment of this worthy, in all probability, that the first Doncaster organ was manufactured.
To return again to Oxford. In 1520 one Barbye was employed in repairing the "little orgayns" in the chapel of Magdalen College; but nothing seems to be known of him. We have also the names of John Hanson, and John Schowt, shortly afterwards. They were probably all three local builders of no great note. The latter, from the spelling of his name, may have been a German.
Another organ builder of this period was named Wyght, or White. Entries of payments to him for work done to the organ of Magdalen College occur in the books from 1531 to 1545. In one of these entries he is called Magister White.[1]
- ↑ "1531. Magistro White, organorum factore, pro reparat. duorum par, organorum in choro."
