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, who tuned the organ in the choir in York Minster, in 1531, for twenty pence. His name occurs at a later period, 1568, as tuning and repairing the organs of St. Mary-at-Hill, St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and Lambeth. Both these worthies were priests.

Sir John was succeeded as the royal organ builder by, or. He was an artisan of some pretensions, if we may judge from the fact of his having been employed to build the organ for the old Cathedral of St. Paul's, destroyed in the great fire of 1666. The name of, and that of the thoroughly English , occur in old accounts as "mendyng," and otherwise restoring organs, about the middle of the sixteenth century.