set at rest by the discovery of a memorandum in the College books, to the effect that in 1660 £16 10s was paid for the transportation of the organ from Hampton Court back to the College. It must, therefore, have been taken down and removed to Hampton Court between the years 1654 and 1660.
There was, in all probability, some amicable agreement on the subject between Cromwell and the president and fellows. Nichols, in his "History of Leicestershire" tells us that Stanford Church is decorated with a handsome organ that formerly belonged to the banqueting room, Whitehall, which by order of Cromwell was taken down and sold. It was intended, he says, to be placed in the chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford, but being too small, was purchased by the Cave family. Dr. Bloxam suggests that it was offered in exchange for the Magdalen organ, which seems more than probable.[1]
- ↑ See Dr. Bloxam's Registers of Magdalen College, Oxford, a work to which I am largely indebted in the composition of these pages.
