Chappington built an organ in 1597 for Magdalen College, Oxford, and of the payment for which a memorandum well worth preserving exists in the Liber Computi of that society:
"Paid Mr. Chappington for the organ 35l 13s 8d For colour to decorate the same 2 2 0 For wainscot for the same 3 14 0"
The practice of gilding and painting the pipes was customary at the period, as we may infer from this entry.
The accounts of King's College, Cambridge, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, introduces to our notice an organ builder named Dallam, who escaped my researches when writing the "History of the Organ."
I was then enabled to show, for the first time, that there were three builders of the same name—Dallam, or Dalham, namely, Robert, born in 1602, who built organs for York Minster, for the Music School, and for New College, Oxford, in the cloisters of which he was buried in 1665; Ralph, who was employed at St. George's
