[Footnote 1: John Milton the father of the poet was the author of a six-part madrigal, "Fayre Oriane in the Morne," printed in 1601, of four motets in Leighton's "Tears or Lamentacions" (1614), and of several Psalm tunes. He also composed an "In Nomine" in forty parts, for which he received a gold medal and chain from a Polish prince.]
[Footnote 2: In a room behind Rutland House, Aldersgate Street.]
[Footnote 3: "Instrumental and Cathedral music I have ever been wilfully ignorant of, because I have dearly loved them, and if I had learnt them to a perfection, this satiety might have bred a nauseous distaste and surfeit, as in other things, and then I had nothing to delight in. But alas! this conceit hath failed me, _for now all church music my highest terrene content is abandoned amongst us_."--PHILIP KING'S "Surfeit," 1656.]
[Footnote 4: They acted together in "The Siege of Rhodes" in 1656.]
[Footnote 5: His name appears in the cheque-book of the Chapel Royal as Henry _Purcill_, and from the same source we learn that he, in common with the other gentlemen of the Chapel, received (each of them), four yards of fine scarlet cloth for a gown to wear at the coronation.]
[Footnote 6: George Dalham, a well-known organ builder. Dr. Rimbault says Father Smith built the organ erected in Westʳ Abbey at the Restoration, but this payment would suggest a doubt as to his accuracy.]
[Footnote 7: Hill played the treble parts on the cornet in consequence of the difficulty previously mentioned, of obtaining efficient boys. He was buried in the cloisters of W. A., in 1667.]
[Footnote 8: Christopher Gibbons, son of the celebrated Orlando Gibbons, was organist of Winchester Cathedral in the reign of Charles I., but on the breaking out of the civil war he became a soldier. He was admitted Doctor of Music at Oxford, by the special desire of Charles II.]
[Footnote 9: Where the word "nil" now stands in the MS. there has evidently been an erasure of some figure or figures.]
[Footnote 11: Cooke performed the part of "Solyman" in _The Siege of Rhodes_, in 1656, and also composed the music for the second and third acts of the opera.]
[Footnote 13: A copy of this birthday Ode, in the handwriting of Pelham Humphreys, was in the possession of the late Dr. Rimbault.]