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7 - Sacred songs in the chamber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2010

John Morehen
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University of Nottingham
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… the morrow after, being Friday [12 October 1537,] … at two of the clockin the morning, the Queen[,Jane Seymour, was] delivered of a man-child [Edward, future King Edward vi] at Hampton Court beside Kingston. And the same day, at eight of the clock in the morning, Te Deum was sung in every parish church throughout London, with all the bells ringing in every church, and great fires made in every street. And at nine of the clock there was assembled at [St] Paul's all the orders of friars, monks, canons, priests and clerks about London, standing all about [St] Paul's in rich copes, with the best crosses and candlesticks of every parish church in London. … and after[,… St] Paul's choir sang an anthem [= antiphon] of the Trinity, with Te Deum, and the ninth respond [at matins] of the Trinity [Summae Trinitati], with the collect of the same. Then the king's waits and the waits of London played with the shawms; and after that a great peal of guns were shot at the Tower of London, all which solemnity was done to give laud and praise to God for joy of our prince.

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Print publication year: 1996

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