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grant to and with the said President and Scholars and their successors, by these presents, that he the said Renatus Harris, his servants, workmen and assigns, shall and will in good and workmanlike manner put the great and choir organs in, Magdalen College aforesaid into sound, good and perfect repair in all ill parts and defects whatsoever, and shall new work and repair the three bellows and make them strong, staunch and good; and all the wood-trunks and conveyances of wind shall repair, make good and staunch, and shall new work and amend all the defects in the sound-boards, and make them staunch and sound, and shall and will make new pallets, springs and wind-chest to the soundboards of the said organs, and shall and will make good and serviceable all the movements and roller-boards of the said organs, and shall make two sets of keys of good ebony and ivory, their fall to be as little as can be to give the pipes their due tone, and the touch to be ready, soft and even under the finger.

Item, That the said Benatus Harris, his servants, workmen or assigns, shall and will make to the great organ a new great twelfth of metal, a cedirne of metal, and a furniture of three ranks and a cymbal of two ranks, and shall and will repair, well voice, and tune, in the great organ, the open diapason, principal of metal, stop-diapason of wood, fifteenth of metal; which great organ shall consist of five hundred sixty