1718
Jan 19
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[Thomas Tudway to Humfrey Wanley, 19 January 1718] [...] I shall in a months time, enter uppon Mr Rosengraves price, but should be glad, he woud give it some other title, than upon ye peace, because ye words don’t correspond, but are rather upon ye Epiphany; If you have seen J. Church, I shall be glad to know what further assurances he gives of Dr Crofts’s, & his own Com- positions; I can spare time now till May, for the Dr to prepare me Copies of what he designes me; intending to begin ye last volume wth Dr Crofts’s Te Deum, &c, & end ye volume, wth Mr Hendals, as my Lord, has enjoin’d me;[1] |
Feb 5
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[Diary of the Reverend Dr Henry Brydges] Wednesday February 5 [1717/8] This day Sr. Hungerford & Lady Hoskyns & Mrs. Jackson din’d with us. after dinner Sr. Hungerford went with me to my Brothrs. where was Col. Dobbyns Dr. Pepuis & Captn. Jacob. [...][2] |
Feb 14
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[Diary of the Reverend Dr Henry Brydges] Friday February 14 [1717/8] [...] after dinner I went to my Brothers where I met Dr. Arthburth- not, Dr. Pepuis & Mr[.] Lowthrop. – Dr. Arthburthnot & I spent ye Evening at my Brothers.[3] |
Apr 27
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[Diary of the Reverend Dr Henry Brydges] [“Sunday / April 27” 1718] This day my Cozen Walcot[,] Col. Dobbens & I din’d at Canons where we met Dr. Pepuis, Mr. Handle, Dr. Arthburthnot, Mr. Desaguliers, Captn. Inwood & Mr. Lowthrop. We were back at Stanmore by 7.[4] |
[Sir David Dalrymple to Hugh Campbell, London, 27 May 1718]
My Dear Lord
Since my Last I have been at Canons with E: of Carnarvan who lives en Prince & to boot is a worthy beneficent man, I heard sermon at his parish church which for painting and orniment exceeds every thing in this Country he has a Choorus of his own, the Musick is made for himself and sung by his own servants, besides which there is a litle [sic] opera now a makeing for his diversion whereof the Musick will not be made publick. The words are to be furnished by Mrs Pope & Gay, the musick to be composed by Hendell, It is as good as finished, and I am promised some of the Songs by Dr Arbuthnot who is one of the club of composers which your Ld shall have as soon as I get [/1v] it.[5]
[Wells, 8 October 1718]
They [=music club] performed Mr Handle’s Anthems, and Symphonies, chiefly.[6]
Dec 19
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To all Lovers of Musick. Whereas there has lately been printed (in Prejudice to my Property) a very Imperfect and Spurious Edition of Mr. Babell’s great Book of Harpsicord Lessons; (that the Publick may not be impos’d on) This is to give Notice, The Original one (curiously printed, and corrected by the Author) is now sold for 3 s. 6 d. by me at the Harp in Catherine-street in the Strand, and at the Viol in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange. NB In Justice to my self, and for the Advantage of the Publick, the like Fall in Price will be made on all Musick that shall hereafter be printed upon me. John Walsh:[7] |
[1] British Library, Harley Ms. 3782, f. 87r.
[2] British Library, Add. Ms. 61999, 18r [p. 33]; repr. Graydon Beeks, “‘A Club of Composers’: Handel, Pepusch and Arbuthnot at Cannons,” in Handel: Tercentenary Collection, ed. Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks (London: Macmillan Press, 1987), 209-21: 212.
[3] British Library, Add. Ms. 61999, 18v [p. 34]; repr. Graydon Beeks, “‘A Club of Composers’: Handel, Pepusch and Arbuthnot at Cannons,” in Handel: Tercentenary Collection, ed. Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks (London: Macmillan Press, 1987), 209-21: 212.
[4] British Library, Add. Ms. 61999, 22r [p. 41]; repr. Graydon Beeks, “‘A Club of Composers’: Handel, Pepusch and Arbuthnot at Cannons,” in Handel: Tercentenary Collection, ed. Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks (London: Macmillan Press, 1987), 209-21: 212.
[5] US-SM (Huntington Library),
MS LO 8340, f. 1r-v; repr., Patrick Rogers, “Dating ‘Acis and Galatea’: A newly
discovered letter,” The Musical Times 114 (1973): 792.
[6] [Claver Morris], The
Diary of a West Country Physician, A.D. 1684-1726, ed. Edmund Hobhouse (Rochester:
Stanhope Press, 1934), 64.
[7] The Daily Courant, no. 5355, Friday 19 December 1718, [2]; repr. (from the 22 December issue) William C. Smith, “Handel’s ‘Rinaldo’: An Outline of the Early Editions,” The Musical Times 76 ([no. 1110, August] 1935), 689-95: 695.