IV/2/1/1635
Reference code
IV/2/1/1635
Level of description
Item
Title
Articles of Agreement for repairing and enlarging the Organ, 1635
Date
14 May 1635
Quantity & Format
1 sheet
Description
Articles of Agreement between the Dean and Chapter and John Burward of London.
John Burward agrees "to repaire or cause to be repaired the great Organ" before 1 June 1636, and "to make or cause to be made and added thereunto three and twenty new Diapasons"; "moreover . . . to make or cause to be made in and to the said great Organ one stopt Diapason of good Wainscott . . . and in like manner . . . to repair or cause to be repaired the bellows and rowlinge boards . . . and also make or cause to be made a new sound board . . . with all needfull conveyances conduitts and other things necessarie & requisite, soe that the said Organ shall . . . be substantially repaired and perfrctly fitted and made and be a perfect good Organ, and those greate pipes of the diapason stop to be of the model of those of the greate Organ of St Paules church London".
John Burward also agrees "to make adde and sett upp or cause to be made added and sett upp to the said great Organ . . . a good and sufficient Chaire Organ according to the model and fashion of the chaire organ in St Pauls church London, with five Stops, one Stopt Diapason of wood, one flute of wood, one small Principall of mettall & fifteene of mettall together with the Case Carriage & all Joyner's worke, gilding & painting".
The consideration is set at "two hundred and twentie pounds of lawfull English money", to be paid in two instalments, one of £80 "at the Dwellinghouse of William Ireland Gent in Westminster" on 18 June 1635 and the residue on 1 June 1636 "or as soon before as the said greate Organ and chaire Organ shal be by the said John Burward substantially repaired & made a good & perfect double Organ".
Signed by John Burward.
(See Betty Matthews, The Organs and Organists of Salisbury Cathedral, second enlarged edition, Salisbury, 1972, p.4).
Also includes the remaining fragment of the paper wrapper, labelled "Organ" in blue ball-point pen, in which the various Articles of Agreement relating to the Organs were previously stored.
Language
English