Royalty
CHARLES II
(1630-1685, King of Great Britain)
Incomplete document with a fine signature at the head addressed to John HINGSTON
(1612-1683, Composer, Organist and Viol player) with the beginning of the text Whereas Our Servant John Hingeston hath dispursed the Some of One Hundred ffifty five pounds and ffifteene Shillings for an Organ and other Instruments for us and Our Queene's..., 7½ x 3, no place, no date
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Background
John HINGSTON served Charles I, Oliver Comwell and Charles II. He was a pupil of Orlando Gibbons. After the Restoration in 1660, Charles II kept Hingston at the royal court. He continued to play viol for the king, and also served as an organ-builder, tuner and keeper of wind instruments. In 1673 Henry Purcell, then a young chorister, was assigned as Hingston's apprentice after his voice broke.
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