The Early English Organ Builders and their work/Appendix II
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II.
Extracts from the Libri Computi of Magdalen College, Oxford, relating to Organ Matters.
(a.d. 1481-1695.)
| A.D. | |
| 1481-2. | Solut. pro ly glew pro organis emendandis, id.
(This is the first mention of the organ in the records.) |
| 1486-7. | Solut. uni emendanti organa, viijd. |
| Willmo Wotton orkynmaker in parte solucionis pro uno pari organorum xiiijli. | |
| 1508-9. | Solut. Joanni Chamberleyn pro organis in partem solucionis vis. viijd., et in expensis Vice-Presidentis in emptionem eorundem vd., vijs. id. |
| Predicto Joanni in completam solucionem vijli. xiis. iiijd. | |
| 1509-10. | Solut. Chamberlayn pro reparacione priorum organorum, xxvijs. xd. |
| 1515-6 | Solut. pro cordis pro organis erga festum Nativitatis Domini, ijd. |
| pro reparacione unis le stoppe pro organis, ijd. | |
| 1516-17. | Solut. cuidam reparanti organa, xiiijd. |
| uni alteri laboranti circa reparacionem organorum, xijd. | |
| 1518-19. | Solut. Simoni pro reparacione organorum, vijs. viijd. |
| 1520-1. | Solut. Mro. Barbbye pro reparacione parvorum organorum, xxvis. viijd. |
| 1529-30. | Solut. Joanni Showt laboranti circa nova organa per diem, viijd. |
| 1530-1. | Solut. Joanni Sente [Showt?] pro reparacione facta circa organa in choro, xijd. |
| 1531-2. | Solut. Mro. Whyte organorum factori pro reparacione duorum parium organorum in choro, xxviiis. iiijd. |
| eidem Joanni [Showt?] laboranti circa minora organa, iijd. | |
| 1532-3. | Solut. Mro. Whyte reparanti organa, vs. |
| Mro. Vhyte reparanti magna organa, vs. | |
| Dno Ricardo Benton emendanti follis organarum in choro ante festum Dedicacionis ecclesie, xijs. | |
| 1535. | Solut. Richardo Beynton emendanti duo paria organarum ex pacto, is. |
| 1539. | Solut. Whighte emendanti organa in templo, xis. ijd. |
| 1542. | Solut. White reparanti organa ex pacto, xiijs. iiijd. |
| 1543. | Solut. Butson pro reparacione organorum in choro, xls. |
| 1545. | Solut. Whyghte reparanti organa ex pacto, iijs. iiijd. |
| 1548. | Solut. cuidam Sacerdoti reparanti organa, iijs. |
| 1554. | Solut. Browne emendanti folles organorum in choro, xijd. |
| 1559. | Solut. Browne emendanti organa, iijs. iiijd. |
| 1597. | Solut. Mro. Chappington pro organis per billam, 33l. 13s. 8d. |
| —— | Sparrow et Georgio Mathew colorantibus et deaurantibus eadem, 2l. 11s. |
| —— | Lea et Andrews fabris lignum pro wainscott circa eadem, 3l. 14s. |
| —— | Fairberd pro clavis ibidem insumptis, 3s. 1d. |
| 1598. | Solut. Chappington reparanti organa, 2l. |
| 1615. | Solut. Dalham reperanti organa, 4l. |
| 1616. | Solut. Yorke emendanti organa, 2s. 6d. |
| 1622. | Solut. Yorke emendanti organa, 10s. |
| 1624. | Solut. Mro. Dalham reperanti organa, 2l. |
| 1628. | Solut. Bishop emendanti folles organorum, 4s. |
| 1637. | Solut. Dallum, Yorke reparanti organa, 2l. 7s. 6d. |
| —— | Harris pro ecclesia, 40l. |
| 1642. | Solut. Bishop reparanti organa, 15s. |
| 1660. | Solut. pro transportatione organ pneumat. de Hampton Court, 16l. 10s. |
| 1661. | Solut, Mro. Dalham extruenti et reficienti organa, 25l. |
| 1664. | Solut. Mro. Dalliam emendanti organa, 40l. |
| 1665. | Solut. Dalham emend, organa, 20s. |
| 1672. | Solut. Mro. Harris reperanti organa, 10s. |
| 1680. | Solut. Preston instauranti organum, 22s. |
| 1689. | Solut. Mro. Harris refecienti organum per compositionem, 50l |
| 1690 | Solut. Mro. Harris reficienti organum, 50l |
| 1691. | Solut. Mro. Harris reficienti organum, 57l. |
| 1694. | Solut. Mro. Harris reficienti et mandanti organ, per comp., 10l. |
| 1695. | Solut. Mro. Harris refic. et mund. organ. per comp. 8l. |
[In this year Renatus Harris entered into an agreement with the President and Fellows to keep their organ in tune for 8l yearly. Entries of those payments occur from year to year, the last being in 1715, the supposed year of Harris's death.]