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 "Clarence (who before, as 'tis said, had secretly conveyed himself out of prison), to the end that he might be King, and that the House of York might again flourish. But the said Symonds being discovered, was apprehended, and on February 10 confessed in St. Paul's Church, before divers Bishops and Nobles, as also the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs of London, that he, by flattery, had seduced the son of a certain organ-maker of the University of Oxford, and had caused him to be sent into Ireland, where he was by many reputed to be the Earl of Warwick, and that he was with the Lord Lovell at Furnsell. Upon which confession he was sent to the Tower, and afterwards (as some say) suffered as a traitor; though others not, but that he was only kept in close prison as long as he lived. Some report that the said youth was named Lambert Symmell, and that he was a baker's son in Oxford; but the Priest's confession was the truest, viz., that he was the son of an organ-maker of the University of Oxford. And who that should be but one William Wotton I cannot tell, knowing very well, from various obscure writs, that such an one, and nobody else professed that art at that time in Oxford.'"

Wotton's organ in Magdalen College was probably soon replaced by another, or enlarged; for, in 1509, a part-payment is