Diary of Samuel Pepys — volume 49: January 1666-67
Diary of Samuel Pepys — volume 49: January 1666-67
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23rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and thereto the Duke of York, and did our usual business. Having done there, I toSt. James's, to see the organ Mrs. Turner told me of the other night, ofmy late Lord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker with me, he beingacquainted with my present Lord Almoner, Mr. Howard, brother to the Dukeof Norfolke; so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not likeit, it being but a bauble, with a virginal! joining to it: so I shal...l notmeddle with it. Here we sat and talked with him a good while, and heseems a good-natured gentleman: here I observed the deske which he hath, [made] to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of his chayre. I doalso observe the counterfeit windows there was, in the form of doors withlooking-glasses instead of windows, which makes the room seem both biggerand lighter, I think; and I have some thoughts to have the like in one ofmy rooms. He discoursed much of the goodness of the musique in Rome, butcould not tell me how long musique had been in any perfection in thatchurch, which I would be glad to know.
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