[47] The last piece Dryden wrote for the stage.
[48] The music was published by Walsh with the following new title, "Te Deum et Jubilate for voices and instruments perform'd before the Sons of the Clergy at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. Composed by the late Mr. Henry Purcel." This led to a notion that the music had been composed for the "Sons of the Clergy" festival.
[49] This third part is so scarce that probably only one or two perfect copies now exist.
[50] In my own library.
[51] It is evident from this will that Purcell's youngest child, Mary Peters, had died since her father's decease.
[52] Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, by Letitia Matilda Hawkins.
[53] "The English affect more the Italian than the French music, and their own compositions are between the gravity of the first and the levity of the other. They have had several great masters of their own. Henry Purcell's works in that kind are esteemed beyond Lully's everywhere, and they have now a good many very eminent masters; but the taste of the town being at this day all Italian, it is a great discouragement to them."—Mackay's Journey Through England, 1722-3.
[54] Dr. King's Bibliotheca, 1712.
[55] The flute of Purcell's day was blown at the extreme end like a flageolet, the modern flauto traverso was unknown.
[56] Stafford Smith's Collection of English Songs, 1779.