The prohibition against vain and secular songs would probably not include that inserted in our 2nd vol. No. v. which would be considered as a hymn. The original notes may be seen reduced and set to score in Mr. Stafford Smith's Collection of English Songs for 3 and 4 voices, and in Dr. Burney's Hist. of Music, ii. p. 384.
[1075] T. ix. 336.
[1076] Ibid. x. 287. They are mentioned by name, being ten in number: one of them was named Thomas Chatterton.
[1077] Tom. xi. 375.
[1078] See it in Rymer, t. xi. 642, and in Sir J. Hawkins, vol. iv. p. 366, note. The above charter is recited in letters patent of K. Charles I. 15 July (11 Anno Regni) for a corporation of musicians, &c. in Westminster, which may be seen, ibid.
[1079] Rymer, ix. 255.
[1080] Ibid. xi. 375.
[1081] Rymer, xi. 512.
[1082] Here unfortunately ends a curious fragment (an. 9, E. IV.), ad calcem Sprotti Chron. Ed. Hearne, Oxon. 1719, 8vo. Vid. T. Warton's Hist. ii. p. 134, note [C].
[1083] Rymer, xi. 642.