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VI.

Harris's Agreement with the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford to Improve and Enlarge his Grand-father's Organ.

(From the Appendix to Dr. Bloxam's Registers of Magdalen College.)

Articles of Agreement had, made, concluded and agreed upon June 6, In the Second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, William and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., Anno Domini 1690, between the Right Rev. Father in God, John [Hough] Lord Bishop of Oxford, President of the College of St. Mary Magdalen in the University of Oxford, and the Scholars of the said College on their part, and Renatus Harris, of the City of London, Organ-maker on the other part, in manner following, that is to say:

Imprimis, It is covenanted, concluded and agreed upon by and between the said parties to these presents, and me the said Renatus Harris, in consideration of the money to be paid unto him as hereinafter mentioned, doth for himself, his executors and administrators, covenant and