Page:The Early English Organ Builders and their work.djvu/67

 the Parochial Records of Cork, in the reign of Charles I, there is an order to pay £16 towards erecting a musical instrument called in English organs, as the custom is to have in cathedral churches."

With regard to Wales, Dafydd ab Gwilym, who wrote in the fourteenth century, makes particular mention of an organ and choir at Bangor in his time. The Red Book of St. Asaph's takes notice of a "loud organ" that existed at a very remote period in that church; and the organ at Wrexham enjoyed more than a local celebrity.

Fuller, in his "Worthies," says: "These organs were formerly most famous (the more because placed in a parochial, not cathedral church) for beauty, bigness and tuneableness, though far short of those in worth which Michael, Emperor of