The fate of Dallam's organ is soon told. The commissioners sent down to Cambridge by the Long Parliament ordered the organ in the chapel to be removed, and in compliance with their edict, the pipes were taken out and sold. The case, with some alterations, remains to this day.
We will now retrace our steps, in order to give a cursory glance at the introduction and progress of the organ in Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
So far as I am aware, the earliest mention of the organ by any of the Scottish historians, is by Fordun, who, upon the occasion of the removal of the body of Queen Margaret from the outer church at
occur of payments to one Dalham for repairs to the organ. Dr. Bloxam, in his interesting account of the College Chapel, believes him to have been the Robert Dallam before mentioned; but this could not be the case, as he was not born till 1602, and consequently was only thirteen years of age in 1615. It was certainly the builder now brought to light whose name occurs in the Magdalen books.
