He published: 1. ‘Songs and Psalms, composed into three, four, and five parts, for the use and delight of all such as either loue or learn musicke,’ printed by Est, 1594, and dedicated to the Earl of Essex. Burney gives ‘In deep distresse’ from this collection in his ‘History,’ iii. 55. 2. Part-song for five voices, ‘Lightly she whipped o'er the dales,’ in Morley's ‘Triumphs of Oriana,’ 1601.
Mundy is named as the composer of: 1. A Kyrie, ‘In die Pasce’ (Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 17802). 2. Collection of Services and Psalms in English (ib. 29289). 3. ‘Sing joyfully,’ a 5, in a collection by Thomas Myriell, 1616 (ib. 29372). 4. Treble part of verse-psalms (ib. 15166; and cf. Clifford, Divine Services, for the words of psalms set to music by one or other Mundy). 5. Six Services, and twelve anthems, at Durham Cathedral—including ‘O God, my Strength and Fortitude;’ ‘Send aid;’ ‘Give laude unto the Lord;’ ‘0 God, our Governour;’ ‘0 Thou God Almighty;’ ‘Teach me Thy way;’ ‘O give thanks;’ ‘Almighty God, the Fountain of all wisdom;’ and (for men) ‘He that hath My commandments’ and ‘Let us now laud.’ 6. Two compositions in the Oxford Music School. 7. Five pieces in Queen Elizabeth's ‘Virginal Book’ (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; see Grove, Dict. iv. 308, iii. 35).
But among the manuscript services, psalms, and anthems ascribed to Mundy, or ‘Mr. Mundy,’ most of those to Latin words were probably composed by William, or by an elder John Mundy.
[Treasurers' and Precentors' Rolls of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, through the courtesy of Canon Dalton and Mr. St. John Hope, F.S.A.; Hawkins's Hist. of Music, p. 499; Burney's Hist. iii. 132; list of Mundy's music in Durham Cathedral, kindly supplied by Dr. Philip Armes.]
MUNDY, PETER (fl. 1600–1667), traveller, came from Penryn in Cornwall. In
1609 he accompanied his father to Rouen,
and was then sent into Gascony to learn
French. In May 1611 he went as a cabin-boy in a merchant ship, and graduaIly rose
in life until he became of independent circumstances. He visited Constantinople, returning thence to London overland, and
afterwards made a journey to Spain. On
6 March 1627-8 he left Blackwall for Surat,
where he arrived on 30 Sept. 1628. In November 1630 he was sent to Agra, and remained there until 17 Dec. 1631, when he
proceeded to Puttana on the borders of Bengal. He returned again to Agra and Surat,
and left the latter town in February 1633-4,
arriving off Dover on 9 Sept. 1634. This
portion of his travels is contained in the
Harleian MS. 2286, and in the Addit. MSS.
19278-80. In the Addit. MS. 19281 is a
copy of a journal which he kept on some
further voyages to India, China, and Japan,
when he started from the Downs on 14 April
1636. The fleet of four ships and two pinnaces
were sent forth by Sir William Courten, and
Mundy seems to have been employed as a
factor. This copy of his journals ends somewhat abruptly, but another manuscript in
the Rawlinson collection at the Bodleian
Library (Rawl A. 315) continues the narrative of his life, including journeys to Denmark, Prussia, and Russia, which lasted from
1639 to 1648. It is largely in the handwriting of a clerk, but with corrections by
Mundy, who has obviously himself made all
the drawings and embellishments of the
volume and traced his routes in red on the
maps of Hondius. It ends in 1667 after a
copy of a proclamation by the king in that
year, and it contains during many years notes,
made after his ‘last arrivall at home,’ of the
public events that he thought worthy of record, whether in London or Cornwall; comets,
sea-fights, accidents, and political events,
being equally attractive to him. The pen-and-ink drawings of various curiosities and
instruments as well as scenes, which are contained in this journal, render it of great attraction. An extract from another manuscript of Mundy, then in the possession of
Mr. Edwin Ley of Penzance, is printed in
J.S.Courtney's ‘Guide to Penzance’ (pp. 15-16), and his account of the journal seems to
show that it may include the narrative of
some incidents not contained in the Rawlinson MS. These manuscripts of Mundy are
worthy of the attention of the Hakluyt
Society.
[Manuscripts referred to above; Boase and Courtney's Bibl. Cornub. i. 379; information from Mr. Falconer Madan, of Bodl. Library, and Mr. John D. Enys of Enys, near Penryn. An examination of the parish registers of Gluvias in Cornwall, within which the town of Penryn is situate, has not revealed any entry of either his baptism or burial.]
MUNDY, Sir ROBERT MILLER (1813–1892), colonial governor, born in 1813, was youngest son of Edward Miller
Mundy, M.P., of Shipley Hall, Derby. He entered as a cadet at Woolwich in February 1828, and became a lieutenant in the royal artillery in June 1833. In March 1841 he joined the horse artillery, and became a second captain in April 1844, and major by brevet on selling out in October 1846. After enjoying for a time a country life in Hampshire, he volunteered for service in the Turkish
army on the outbreak of the Crimean war, and
