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 some increase of numbers, up to the seventeenth century. Although subject to some general supervision from the Lord Chamberlain and to that extent part of the Chamber, it was largely a self-contained organization under its own Dean. Elizabeth, however, left the post of Dean vacant, and the responsibility of the Lord Chamberlain then became more direct. It probably did not follow, at any rate in its full numbers, a progress, but moved with the Court to the larger 'standing houses', except possibly to Windsor where there was a separate musical establishment in St. George's Chapel. It does not seem, at any rate in Tudor times, to have had any relation to the collegiate chapel of St. Stephen in the old palace of Westminster. The number of Children varied between eight and ten up to 1526, when it was finally fixed by Henry VIII at twelve. The chaplains and clerks were collectively known in the sixteenth century