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 the festal and penitential arrays of the choir. The boys themselves do not appear to have received any wages but, when their voices had broken, the King made provision for them at the University or otherwise, and until this could be done, the Treasurer of the Chamber sometimes paid allowances to the Master or some other Gentleman for their maintenance and instruction.

The earlier Masters were John Plummer (1444-55), Henry Abyngdon (1455-78), Gilbert Banaster (1478-83?), probably John Melyonek (1483-5), Lawrence Squier (1486-93), and William Newark (1493-1509). Some of these have left*