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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Old and New London
… was at the lowest possible ebb, and the stock of hymn-tunes possessed by Dr. Gill's clerk must have been very … the clerk, in about three years, had introduced two new tunes. Not that he was a famous singer, or able to conduct a … congregation, naturally enough, were pleased with the new tunes; but the good woman could not bear the innovation. The …
Old and New London
… he "did not see why the devil should have all the good tunes," for in his lifetime and some years afterwards it was … hear certain hymns, composed by Rowland Hill, sung to the tunes of "Rule, Britannia," or the "National Anthem." The …
Calendar of Border Papers
… and to leave us but viij sheafes. To carrey awaye iij tunes of elme plankes, consitheringe we have allmoste never a …