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 Cornish was succeeded as Master of the Children by William Crane (1523-45) and Crane by Richard Bower, whose patent was successively renewed by Edward VI, presumably by Mary, and finally by Elizabeth on 30 April 1559. His service was almost certainly continuous, and it is therefore rather puzzling to be told that a commission to take up singing children for the Chapel, similar to that of John Melyonek in 1484, was issued in February 1550 to Philip van Wilder, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. Neither the full text nor a reference to the source for the warrant is given, and I suspect the explanation to be that it was not for the Chapel at all. Philip van Wilder was a lutenist, one of a family of musicians of whom others were in the royal service, and he may not improbably have had a commission to recruit a body of young minstrels with whom other notices suggest that he may have been connected. Bower himself had a commission for the Chapel on 6 June 1552. Although the Children continued to give performances at Court both under

there are three early editions by three different publishers, and they all assign it to Heywood.]
 * [Footnote: from the notice of Heywood which he quotes on p. 80. As to The Four P. P.