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 entered for "organs" to. Nothing whatever is known of this builder further than he resided in London

was an organ builder resident in London in the early part of the sixteenth century. A payment to him is thus recorded in the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, under the date of 1514:

"'Item. Paid to Thomas Smyth, organemaker, for mendyng of the grete orgones, xls., and for the small orgones, vs.'"

Another contemporary builder was a, a priest, who made an organ for Lambeth Church, in 1517, for the small sum of 10s.

A curious document was discovered, in 1862, among the old papers, in the church chest of Allhallows, Barking, of which a copy was kindly forwarded to me by the late, George Corner, F.S.A. It purports to be "An Indenture, or Contract, between the Churchwardens of Allhallows, Barking, and