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The ‘Gyffard’ Partbooks: Composers, Owners, Date and Provenance

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David Mateer
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The first part of this study of the ‘Gyffard’ partbooks (Lbl Add. MSS 17802–5) examined in detail the handwriting, watermarks and other aspects of their physical make-up, and concluded that the collection could not have been compiled sequentially, as had hitherto been imagined. Each book was seen to fall into seven fascicles, and arguments were advanced for the existence of three layers, labelled - for the sake of convenience - early, late and latest. A sequel was also promised in which the problems of scribe/ownership, date and provenance would be addressed. Before attempting to identify the person responsible for assembling the anthology, however, one would do well to examine the biographies of the composers there represented, for if it could be demonstrated that the work of certain composers associated with a particular locality was restricted largely to a particular layer of the collection, then such geographical and temporal co-ordinates might be of assistance in confirming the identity of the compiler if they were seen to reflect the pattern of his own associations and movements.

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Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle , Volume 28 , 1995 , pp. 21 - 50
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149 ‘Supplicat venerabili convocationi magistrorum regentium et non regentium Rogerus Gifford artium mret in re medica bacchalaureus quatenus studium quatuor annorum et amplius in eadem facultate post gradum susceptum, cum responsione publica in commitijs in eadem facultate sibi sufficiat ut creetur doctor et non teneatur stare in commitijs et convivij liberetur sumptibus. Concess. modo satisfaciat pub. lectori in eadem facultate officiariis et ministris universitatis et creetur doctor ante reginae adventum et paratus sit ad disputandum coram regina, et ea prestet eo tempore ad que per universitatem astringetur’: ibid., f. 32v.Google Scholar

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151 A number of contemporary accounts of the royal visit are printed in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols. (London 1823), and Charles Plummer ed., Elizabethan Oxford, Oxford Historical Society viii (1886). These give the surnames only of the doctors and other worthies present at the proceedings; Plummer (175, fn. 21) follows Nichols (i, 232) in identifying Dr Gifford as John Gifford of New College, M.D. 1598!Google Scholar

152 Plummer, op. cit., 202.Google Scholar

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157 British Library, Lansdowne MS 21, no. 60. The document is dated 30 January 1576, but internal evidence shows that it was written some four years earlier; it is transcribed (with serious inaccuracies) in Sir George Clark, A History of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1964–66), i, 129–30.Google Scholar

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163 Edward Yardley, Menevia Sacra, ed., Francis Green, Cambrian Archaeological Association (London, 1927), 133. The close connection that existed between the clerical and medical professions is illustrated by the careers of John Warner (the first Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford) and his deputy Thomas Francis; see Munk, op. cit., 61–3. For an account of priest-physicians as a group within the medical profession, see M. Pelling and C. Webster, ‘Medical Practitioners’, Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Charles Webster (Cambridge, 1979), 199–200.Google Scholar

164 This was finally granted on 14 October 1596, with a number of provisos attached., The case, however, dragged on into the new century; see Clark, op. cit., 146–8.Google Scholar

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168 Both of Gifford's daughters married into prominent Shropshire families. Mary's eventual husband was Thomas Oteley of Pitchford, and Thomas Harris's family seat was at Tong Castle; see G. Grazebrook and J. P. Rylands eds, The Visitation of Shropshire 1623, 2 vols., Harleian Society 28 and 29 (London, 1889), i, 223–4; ii, 380–2.Google Scholar

169 Henry Cuffe was elected to a fellowship at Merton in 1586, after he had been expelled from Trinity for expressing his views on the character of the founder. He was Regius Professor of Greek from 1590 to 1596, and served as private secretary to the Earl of Essex c.1594, but was executed in 1601 for his involvement in the latter's rebellion; see D.N.B.Google Scholar

170 Atkins served the Earl of Essex in the capacity of physician on a naval expedition to Spain in 1597, but was so sea-sick that he had to be put ashore at Plymouth. He was later Physician in Ordinary to both James I and Charles I; see Munk, op. cit., i, 93–5.Google Scholar

171 Foster, Alumni, i, 564. The Register of the University of Oxford gives his place of origin as London, and his social condition as the son of an armiger; see Oxford Historical Society, xi (1887), 180.Google Scholar

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173 Each admission was signed not only by the Reader or Bencher by whom admission was made, but also by one, two, or three sureties or manucaptors; these were members of the Inn who had proposed the new member, and who were bound to ensure the payment of dues.Google Scholar

174 Called to the bar in 1580, he was Recorder of Beaumaris by 1586; he became a bencher in 1589, and was Autumn reader in 1593 – the year of his death. He sat as M. P. for Beaumaris in 1584, 1586, 1589, and 1593 (P. W. Hasler, op. cit., i, 514).Google Scholar

175 Catholic Record Society, xiii, 109. David Pole, the Marian bishop of Peterborough who died in 1568, bequeathed to Thomas ‘fyve poundes and the corse of Paulus de Castro upon Civill’ (PRO Prob 11/50). What is more, his brother Richard had received his early education in the household of Bishop Bonner (P. W. Hasler, op. cit., 513).Google Scholar

176 Black Book 4, f. 356.Google Scholar

177 See Catholic Record Society, liv (1962), 124–7, and W. R. Prest, The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts, 1590–1640 (London, 1972), 180.Google Scholar

178 See Foster Alumni, i, 653, and Register of Congregation 1582–1595, f. 184v.Google Scholar

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182 One should also mention the remote possibility that the ‘Philip’ of the ‘Gyffard’ partbooks is Lady Philippa Giffard. In contemporary documents, and indeed in her own will, her name is abbreviated to ‘Phillipp’ or ‘Phylip’. She was the daughter of Robert Trapps, a London goldsmith, and married firstly Edmund Shaa, variously described as haberdasher or goldsmith in the city. Her second husband was Sir George Giffard of Middle Claydon, Bucks., the wealthiest of Dr Gifford's four uncles. When he died in 1557, she married Richard Norton of Norton Conyers in Yorkshire, who was Sheriff of the county. He fled the country because of his involvement in the Northern Rebellion of 1569, and died in exile. Lady Giffard, who retained the title brought to her by her second marriage, died in 1593. We know that she had an interest in music, for in 1555 Edward Gifford of Wicken, Northants., bequeathed ‘unto my ladye Philip Gifforde, wife unto Sr George Gifforde knighte my venice lute, the whiche she hathe allredie in her custodie…’ (PRO Prob 11/38). On 27 February 1591, while living at Sheldon, Warwicks., she was indicted for recusancy. She appears to have spent the final years of her life with her son Thomas at the family home in Buckinghamshire, where it was reported that she ‘dothe usuallie resorte to the parishe Churche of Middle Cleydon aforesaid accordinge to her Majestes Lawes …’ (PRO SP 12/243 [Part 2 End]). Such conformity was only superficial, however, as may be seen from the preamble to her will, where she hopes her soul might share ‘… the blisse of heaven, with our blessed Ladye St. Marye the virgin mother of god and man and of all the holye Companye of heaven to whose holye intercession and of the Catholicke Churche militaunt here in earthe I commend my Sowle.’ (PRO Prob 11/82) The document mentions neither Dr Gifford nor his children. Lady Philippa appears to have moved in a different social set to that of her nephew, and no beneficiary is common to both their wills. It is difficult to imagine how she could be the ‘Philip’ who was associated with Thomas and Charles Gifford.Google Scholar

183 Black Book 5, f. 21v.Google Scholar

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185 ‘Thomas Giforde de Essex generosus et Dorothea Savile generosa de Nova Aula Juxta Elandiam’; see Clay, JohnWilliam, The Registers of Elland, Co Yorkshire (Leeds, 1897), 331. There are Gifford pedigrees in W. H. Turner ed., op. cit., 176–81, and Joseph Foster ed., Glover's Visitation of Yorkshire 1584–1585; St. George's Visitation of Yorkshire 1612 (London, 1875), 521; for the Savile descent, see Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, 2 vols. (London, 1828 and 1831) ii 374.Google Scholar

186 Clay, op. cit., 237.Google Scholar

187 She was baptized on 6 December 1607, and was buried in Elland church on 22 November 1608; see Clay ibid 240 and 129.Google Scholar

188 Clay ibid., 242 and 245. Helenor also survived no more than a few months; what appears to be her burial is recorded under 17 April 1610; see ibid., 132.Google Scholar

189 Foster, Visitation of Yorkshire, 521. This pedigree reproduces the error of Lbl Harley MS 1487 f. 416v by giving the name of Thomas's younger brother as Thomas also. Furthermore, it wrongly states that Francis was aged nine at the time of visitation.Google Scholar

190 Francis Collins ed., The Registers of Farnham, Yorkshire, 1569–1812, Parish Register Society lvi (1905), 12.Google Scholar

191 Ibid., 12–13.Google Scholar

192 The will is in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York.Google Scholar

193 Collins, op. cit., 79.Google Scholar

194 Puttick and Simpson Sale Catalogues 1849–1853, British Library, Dept. of Printed Books, call-mark Hirsh 565.Google Scholar

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196 The brothers William and Thomas Boone were Bond Street booksellers who acted as agents for the British Museum from the spring of 1849; see George Smith and Frank Benger, The Oldest London Bookshop (London, 1928) 61–4. We can follow the various stages in the Museum's acquisition of the partbooks from Sir Frederic's Journal for the year 1849 (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Eng. hist. C. 162):Google Scholar

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‘Tuesday 26th … Boone sent up the musical MSS among which are two volumes in the undoubted autograph of Matthew Locke.‘ (p. 189)Google Scholar

197 The original document was apparently destroyed in the 1940s. The call-marks of the Bodleian and British Library copies of the typescript are B1.367 (open shelves, Catalogue Room, Old Library) and C.131.K.15 respectively.Google Scholar

198 Alphabetical list of some of the principal sales of Literary Property Music and Works of Art, conducted by Messrs Puttick & Simpson, 191 Piccadilly and 47 Leicester Square, 1846 to 1870 (typewritten, 1928), 2.Google Scholar

199 Also spelled Ayreton, Airton, Aerton.Google Scholar

200 See the articles on Edmund and William Ayrton in The New Grove; also Harold Watkins Shaw, The Succession of Organists (Oxford, 1991), 277.Google Scholar

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202 See The New Grove article for a brief biographical sketch.Google Scholar

203 See Mateer, David, ‘Further light on Preston and Whyte’, Musical Times, 115 (1974), 1074–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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205 The New Grove article gives John Mundy's birth-date as c.1555. E.H. Fellowes suggests c.1554 in his Organists and Masters of the Choristers of St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle (2nd ed., Windsor, 1979), 30.Google Scholar

206 See for instance F. Ll. Harrison, op. cit., 289, and Hugh Baillie, ‘Squares’ Acta Musicologica, 32 (1960), 183.Google Scholar

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208 Under normal circumstances, the three-fold Christe eleison would be sung: polyphony - plainsong - polyphony, with the last ‘Christe’ repeating the music of the first. The Kyries by Tye and William Mundy, however, develop this scheme by providing the third ‘Christe’ with new music, thus making four polyphonic sections overall: Kyrie 2, Christe 1 & 3, Kyrie 5.Google Scholar

209 John Mundy's six-part Dum transisset Sabbatum (Och Mus. 979–83, no. 156) may be another pedagogical essay in the same technique.Google Scholar

210 See Mateer, David, ‘The Compilation’, op. cit., 22–6.Google Scholar

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212 Heawood, E., ‘Sources of early English Paper-Supply ii: The Sixteenth Century’ Transactions of the Bibliographical Society [The Library], 4th Series, x (March 1930), 427–54 (especially 435 and 440). In his Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries (Hilversum, 1950; repr. Amsterdam, 1970) the device appears as no. 2163. Heawood also claims to have found it in Linschoten's Discours of Voyages (trans. William Phillip, 1598); the maps in the three British Library copies of that work are indeed printed on paper with a grape watermark, but there the similarity ends.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

213 For a discussion of its date and contents see Noble, Jeremy, op. cit., and Warwick Edwards, ‘The Sources of Elizabethan Consort Music’ (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1974) 90–97.Google Scholar

214 British Library, Royal MS 18.D.iii.Google Scholar

215 It also occurs in a printed psalter of 1576; see J. S. G. Simmons ed., Tromonin's Watermark Album (Hilversum, 1965), plate XXXI, nos. 457–8.Google Scholar

216 The second type of watermark does not occur in the Burghley papers (British Library, Lansdowne MSS) before c.1580. The best examples of the device are to be found in large folio-size books, such as the churchwardens' accounts of St. Stephen Walbrook for 1577–81 (Guildhall Library, MS 573/3), and of St. Lawrence Pountney for 1530–1681 (ibid., MS 3907/1). When the paper on which the latter are written was purchased in 1575, accounts for the period 1530–50 were recopied at the beginning of the volume. The space left for the years 1551–75 was never filled, however, and these blank leaves now provide excellent sightings of the watermark.Google Scholar

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218 Devotion to the Name of Jesus was widespread in England from about the middle of the fifteenth century. A famous guild of that dedication, founded in 1459, met in the ‘Crowdes’ or crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, where the Dean (or in his absence the Subdean or a Cardinal) sang high mass on the feast of the Holy Name. Every Friday mass of Jesus was solemnly sung, followed immediately by a mass of Requiem by note. However, the setting in ‘Gyffard’, which is for men's voices, is unlikely to have been used on such occasions, as the guild's accounts show that choristers were among the singers paid for their services in the crypt (see my forthcoming article ‘Music at St. Paul's Cathedral 1500–1600‘). The Name of Jesus was also held in special reverence at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the pre-Reformation Libri Computi are littered with entries such as the following:Google Scholar

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219 See Table: Fascicles II (sub-sections i and iii), IV, VI, and VII. Alcock's Salve regina, which appears near the end of the first layer of Fascicle VII, could have been brought by Whitbroke from Lichfield to London.Google Scholar

220 See Table; Fascicle II, sub-section ii.Google Scholar

221 Barber's music was probably brought to London by Knight. For the latter's association with Winchester, see p. 27.Google Scholar

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224 Windsor Muniments, XV.56.36. Alternatively, the pieces from St. George's Chapel could have been provided by John Mundy, who may well have known Dr Gifford personally through their common association with the second Earl of Essex - the dedicatee of the composer's Songs and Psalmes composed into 3, 4, and 5, parts (1594). It is even possible that the music of Stoning and Ensdale came to Gifford directly from the Earl, for the Devereux family, whose seat was at Chartley, Staffs., had close links with Lichfield cathedral and city.Google Scholar