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(From Harleian MS., British Museum, No. 4240 fol. 116b.)

1. To make the three bellows new, to repair and perfect the inner trunks and wind chests, to new hang both sets of keys, to rectify all defects in the roller-boards, to repair the sound-boards and conveyances, and to make them as good as at the first.

2. To mend all the pipes and conduits in both organs, and perfectly to voice and tune them, which, voicing shall be done after the modern, best and sweetest manner that either the work or proposer is capable of.

3. Whereas the great organ consists of eight stops, namely, two diapasons, two principals, two fifteenths and two two-and-twentieths, one of which stops, and several pipes in the other, have been spoiled by Preston; finding by experience that when two unisons are together in an organ as two principals, two fifteenths, etc., that