the Parochial Records of Cork, in the reign of Charles I, there is an order to pay £16 towards erecting a musical instrument called in English organs, as the custom is to have in cathedral churches."[1]
With regard to Wales, Dafydd ab Gwilym, who wrote in the fourteenth century, makes particular mention of an organ and choir at Bangor in his time.[2] The Red Book of St. Asaph's takes notice of a "loud organ" that existed at a very remote period in that church; and the organ at Wrexham enjoyed more than a local celebrity.
Fuller, in his "Worthies," says: "These organs were formerly most famous (the more because placed in a parochial, not cathedral church) for beauty, bigness and tuneableness, though far short of those in worth which Michael, Emperor of Con-
