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prolific writer of the ornate order; Thomas Tudway (d. 1730), from 1670 organist at King's College, Cambridge, and from 1704 Professor of Music; William Turner (d. 1740), in the Chapel Royal all his life; Daniel Purcell (d. 1717), from 1688 organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and after 1695 in London, who wrote dramas and odes as well as anthems; Henry Aldrich (d. 1710), dean of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1689, a versatile scholar, architect and musician, whose library of music was the finest outside the British Museum; and Jeremiah Clarke (d. 1707, suicide), organist at Winchester from 1692, in the Chapel Royal from 1700 and its organist from 1704. Several other composers of services and anthems that belong to the next century began active work before 1700.

Among the important collections of church music were those of Barnard (1641), Clifford (1661, '63), and Tudway (MS., about 1715-20).

58.—German Positive Organ (17th century).