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must have been the Pretender (James III.). And as to the Catholic Chapel of James II., said to have been sung there, it must surely have been in Latin, of which certainly no traces are found."
Since the above wTas written, Canon Harford, of Westminster Abbey, who has given much study to this matter, has arrived at the con-clusion that the wrords were fitted to the music some considerable time after the latter (the music) was written. According to Canon Har-ford the music was originally sung in the Chapel of James II. to Latin words, beginning," O Deus Optime," but up to the present there is not sufficient proof of this being the case.
A writer in the " Daily Telegraph" in 1S87 dismissed Carey's claim with scant mercy; but as he based his opinion upon the MS. book said to be by Dr. John, or Jan, Bull, it does not carry much weight Perhaps the name had much to do with the sentiment. He also sent Scotland and France with Lully and others to the right about.
Let us now examine into the claim put for-ward by Mr. Richard Clark in 1822 for Dr. John Bull. Mr. Clark (1780-1856), of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, accidentally discovered a MS. collection of virginal music by Dr. John Bull, transcribed about the year 1822, and one
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