Identifier: historyofshrewsb00blak (find matches)
Title: A history of Shrewsbury School : from the Blakeway mss., and many other sources
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Blakeway, John Brickdale, 1765-1826 Rimmer, Alfred, 1829-1893
Subjects: Shrewsbury School (Shrewsbury, England)
Publisher: Shrewsbury : Adnitt & Naunton London : Simpkin, Marshall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e been over the lower part of the thirdschool, and was intended to accommodate a band of musicians. Music, as iswell known, entered very much more into the education of the young formerlythan is the case at present. Sir Tliibp Sidney, in a letter of grave adviceto his brother Robert, says, Now sweet brother, take delight to keep andencrease your musick: and Polonius in Hamlet sends word through Reynaldoto his son at Paris and let him play his musick. This use of the galleryjust mentioned is marked by a Corporation order of 1G51, that a nnisickemaster be a)ip()iiited to maintainc a nmsieal exercise in tlie Free schole.These liiiililings were not begun llll loir); the interval lieing requisite for theaccuiHulatinn ^^\ ;i surplus adccjuale to the charge. Altri-atiiiiis and iinprovcnicnts were however giailually made even beforetlic appoint nirnt of Meiglien, as our ^I.S. (uiotes : 157G.—This yeaic andtlie iijth day of Aprell, one Uweu a;i Moiiys, plasterare, woorckinge upon the MM ^mmm
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