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 at Court, had been in their own quarters 'at Paules', although the notice of 1578, as well as Gosson's reference, suggests that the public were not altogether excluded from their rehearsals. Probably they used their singing school, which may have been still, as in the twelfth century, the church of St. Gregory itself. This privacy, even if something of a convention, had perhaps enabled them to utilize the services of the grammar school when they had occasion to make a display of erudition. After Westcott's death, however, they appear to have followed the example of the Chapel, who had already

to 'Shepard that keepeth the door at playes', and to Pole 'the keper of the gate'. Wallace, i. 171, cites the will from P. C. C. 14 and 31, Tirwhite, giving the date of confirmation as 3 July 1582. One name may be added to Westcott's list of boys from a Court Minute of Christ's Hospital on 5 March 1580 (Musical Times, 1 Jan. 1907), 'M^r. Sebastian, of Paulls, is appointed to have Hallawaie the younger out of this House to be one of the singing children of the Cathedral Church of Paulls in this Citie'.]Lillie and understood the Latin tongue perfectly; and because he had a sweet voice he was put to learn prick-song among the choristers of St. Paul's, for that learned Mr. Lillie knew full well that knowledge in music was a help and a furtherance to all arts'. On the other hand, Dean Nowell (Churton, Life of A. Nowell, 190) instructed Thomas Giles in 1584 to teach the choristers catechism, writing, and music, and then to 'suffer them to resort to Paul's School that they may learn the principles of Grammar'. Some seventeenth-century performances by the grammar school, after the regular Paul's plays ceased, are upon record.]
 * [Footnote: Robert Knight, Nicholas Carleton, Baylye, Nasion, and Gregory Bowringe,