of organ-blower who was the organist of their own church, and in truth the most excellent musician of his time. What the issue of this contest was does not appear. It may be supposed either that he refunded the money, or compounded the matter with the Dean and Chapter, it being certain that he continued to execute his office for some years after." The above account in Sir John Hawkins's hand is now lying before me with a note that it is to be inserted in vol. iv. p. 497; it fills two pages of letter paper, and on the third page of the same sheet is a further note by Dr. Benjamin Cooke, which certainly ought to have been printed with the foregoing:-- "The order herein alluded to is not the real entry in the Chapter minutes, but is in another old book which contains copies or memorandums of many of the Chapter minutes, and probably was the rough draft, or it might be done by Mr. Needham afterwards from his recollection, and so the wording is different tho' the substance of both is the same, and this book was shown to me, and afterwards by my desire to Sir John Hawkins, at which time we understood it to be the original Chapter minutes, but have since been convinced of the contrary by having seen the original minute; and in this last he is not described by the title of _Organ-blower_, as he is in the former, but he is stil'd organist.--B. C." Whatever may have been the end of this dispute, it probably was speedily concluded, for we find by the Abbey registers of the 6th September following, that Purcell had an infant son baptized in the Abbey, who received the name of Edward; this child survived his parents and became an organist of some note. On the 5th of August, 1689, a new ode by Purcell, called "A Welcome Song at the Prince of Denmark's Coming Home," and commencing, "Celestial music," was performed at Mr. Maidwell's, a schoolmaster. In commemoration of the accession of William and Mary, Tom D'Urfey prepared an ode abounding in praise of "The Great Nassau." This Purcell set to music, and it was subsequently performed at a cost of £100 in the "Merchant Taylors' Hall," at the gathering of the natives of the County of York at their feast, March 27th, 1690; from which circumstance the ode is known as "The Yorkshire Feast Song." The music became extremely popular; portions of it were printed in the _Orpheus Britannicus_, and other collections, and the entire work was printed by Goodison in 1788 or 1789, but in a very incorrect fashion. It has lately been published in a very satisfactory manner by the new "Purcell Society." In the year 1690 Purcell must have worked assiduously for the theatres; we can trace to this period the production of _The Tempest_, an alteration from Shakespeare by Shadwell; _The Prophetess_, or _Dioclesian_, an adaptation from Beaumont and Fletcher by Betterton; the _Massacre of Paris_, by Lee; and _Amphitryon_, by Dryden.