tary forces), we find the following: "Paid for some of the organ-pipes, 6d." Here, then, is the fate of John Vauck's handiwork, after a century of use: its pipes scattered about the streets, or stolen for the sake of the metal, and the trouble of those who brought some of them back valued at sixpence. A considerable quantity of materials must, however, have been left, since, in the year following, the churchwardens sold off more than one hundred and forty pounds of old tin no doubt supplied by the organ pipes.[1]
In the list of Henry the Eighth's musical establishment, we find, under the date 1526, the name of "John de John, organmaker." Again, in the King's Household Book, May, 1531, a reward is paid to "Sir John the organ-maker": evidently the same person. Contemporary with him was Father Howe, of Lon-
- ↑ I am indebted for these curious notices of John Vaucks, etc., to a "History of Wimborne Minster," published by Bell and Daldy, 1860, 8vo.
