A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Warwick, Thomas

WARWICK, Thomas, of the family of Warwick, or Warthwyke, of Warvvicke, Cumberland, was, in 1625, a musician for the lute to Charles I. On July 1 in the same year he was sworn organist of the Chapel Royal in the place of Orlando Gibbons. On March 29, 1630, he was mulcted of a month's salary 'because he presumed to play verses one the organ at service tyme, beinge formerly inhibited by the Deane from doinge the same, by reason of his insufficiency for that solemne service.' Anthony Wood says he was organist of Westminster Abbey, but there is no evidence to support the assertion. He is said to have composed a song in 40-parts performed before Charles I. about 1635. He was a commissioner for granting dispensations to convert arable land into pasture. His name last occurs in 1641 in a warrant for exempting the king's musicians from payment of subsidies. His son, Sir Philip Warwick, was Secretary to the Treasury, temp. Car. II.

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