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 ," to Cambridge, to execute an order.

Dallam and his men were lodged in the town, but boarded in the College hall. From the item for suppers on Fridays and fasting nights, it appears they were not satisfied with the meagre fare there provided, but required extra dishes for their maintenance.

The whole of the materials used appear to have been bought in the rough, and made up on the spot; the metal purchased for the pipes, presuming that all the lead was used for that purpose, would be in the proportion of sixteen to six, or rather less than three-fourths tin. This was the composition of the original pipes of the Temple organ built by Father Smith in 1684.

No specification is extant from which any information may be obtained as to the compass and power of the instrument; the only stop mentioned in the account is the Shaking Stop, for which a special material was required; it was the original