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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3): Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the AlmanacHone, William

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The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3): Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

Name: The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3): Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
Author: Hone, William

Hone, William

Days; Great Britain -- Social life and customs

Dr. John Bull was a celebrated musician, born about 1563, in
Somersetshire. His master in music was William Blitheman, organist of
the chapel royal to queen Elizabeth, in which capacity he was much
distinguished. Bull, on the death of his master in 1591, was appointed
his successor. In 1592 he was created doctor in the university of
Cambridge; and in 1596, at the recommendation of her majesty, he was
made professor of music to Gresham college, which situation he resigned
in 1607. During more than a year of his professorship, Mr. Thomas Bird,
son of the venerable William Bird, exercised the office of a substitute
to Dr. Bull, while he travelled on the continent for the recovery of his
health. After the decease of queen Elizabeth, Bull was appointed
chamber-musician to king James. In 1613, Dr. Bull finally quitted
England, and entered into the service of the archduke, in the
Netherlands. He afterwards seems to have settled at Lubec, from which
place many of his compositions, in the list published by Dr. Ward, are
dated; one of them so late as 1622, the supposed year of his decease.
Dr. Bull has been censured for quitting his establishment in England;
but it is probable that the increase of health and wealth was the cause
and consequence of his removal. He seems to have been praised at home
more than rewarded. The professorship of Gresham college was not then a
sinecure. His attendance on the chapel royal, for which he had 40_l._
per annum, and on the prince of Wales, at a similar salary, though
honourable, were not very lucrative appointments for the first performer
in the world, at a time when scholars were not so profitable as at
present, and there was no public _performance_ where this most wonderful
musician could display his abilities. A list of more than two hundred of
Dr. Bull’s compositions, vocal and instrumental, is inserted in his
life, the whole of which, when his biography was written in 1740, were
preserved in the collection of Dr. Pepusch. The chief part of these were
pieces for the organ and virginal.[57]

Anthony à Wood relates the following anecdote of this distinguished
musician, when he was abroad for the recovery of his health in 1601:--

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