Mrs. Rimbault, and a donation of £300 was granted by the Earl of Beaconsfield, which she did not live to receive. It was given to her son and daughter.
Dr. Rimbault’s publications were numerous.
- Ancient Poetical Tracts of the Sixteenth Century (Percy Society, vols, v., vi., and ix.). 1842.
- The Order of Chanting the Cathedral Service (a republication followed by similar ones, and by a volume of services never before published). 1843.
- Who was “Jack Wilson,” the singer of Shakespeare’s Stage? An attempt to prove the identity of this person with John Wilson, Doctor of Music. 1846.
- Memoirs of Musick, by Hon. R. North, Attorney-General, now first printed, with copious notes. 1846.
- Bibliotheca Madrigaliana: a bibliographical account of the musical and poetical works published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the titles of madrigals, ballets, ayres, canzonets, &c. 1847.
- Two Sermons preached by the Boy Bishop, edited by J. G. Nichols, with an introduction giving an account of the festival of the Boy Bishop in England. (Camden Miscellany, vol. vii.). 1847.
- The Ancient Vocal Music of England [illustrations of Dr. Rimbault’s lectures at Liverpool and Edinburgh].
- Musical Illustrations to Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, a collection of old ballad tunes, &c, chiefly from rare MSS. and early printed books, 4to. 1850.
- A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, gathered from ancient Musick Books, MS. and printed. With introduction and notes. 1851.
- An entirely new History of the Organ, memoirs of the most eminent builders of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and other matters of research connected with the subject. [Prefixed to “The Organ, its History and Construction,” by E. J. Hopkins.] 1855.
- The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Overbury. (In the Library of Old Authors.) 1856.
- The Pianoforte, its origin, progress, and construction, with some account of instruments of the same class which preceded it, viz., the claricord, the virginal, the spinet, the harpsichord, &c. To which is added a selection of interesting specimens of music by Blitheman, Byrd, Bull, &c. 4to. 1860.
- The Early English Organ Builders and their works, from the fifteenth century to the period of the great Rebellion — an unwritten chapter in the history of the Organ; a Lecture delivered November 15, 1864.
- A Catechism of the Rudiments of Music. 1870.
- A Catechism of Harmony, adapted to the first requirements of a student. 1871.
- A Catechism of the Art of Singing, with practical rules for the formation of the voice. 1871.
- The Old Cheque-Book, or Book of Remembrance of the Chapel Royal from 1561 to 1744, edited from the original MS. preserved among the Muniments of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace. 1872.
- Gallery of German Composers, a series of portraits by C. Jäger, with biographical and critical notices by Dr. Rimbault, folio. 1873.
- Musical Instruments [inserted in Bevan’s British Manufacturing Industries]. 1876.
(See the Musical Standard for 30th September 1876.)
James Robinson Planché, Somerset Herald, was a descendant of a refugee, said to have escaped from France concealed in a tub. The first refugee names on record are his sons or grandsons, Paul, Antoine, and Pierre Antoine Planché, or Planchet. Antoine married Mary Thomas, and had an only child, a daughter. Pierre Antoine, East India merchant of London in 1763, was, by his wife, Sarah Douglas, the father of Captain John Douglas Planché of the 60th Foot (who died on active service in the West Indies in 1812), and grandfather of James Planché, a settler in America. We return to Paul Planché, who married, in 1723, Marie Anne Fournier, and had five sons. One of these sons was Andrew Planché (born 1728, died at Bath after 1804), the first maker of china (porcelain) in Derby, who, in his humble residence in Lodge Lane, “modelled and made small articles in china, principally animals — birds, cats, dogs, lambs, &c. — which he fired in a pipe-maker’s oven in the neighbourhood.” There is extant an agreement between John Heath, of Derby, gentleman, Andrew Planché of the same place, china-maker, and William Duesbury, of Langton, Staffordshire, enameller, dated 1st January 1756. Three sons of Andrew
