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The Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I: An Annotated Register

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Alan Smith
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The Chapel Royal was Elizabeth's own private choir. It did not sing in one place only, but accompanied her whenever she was in residence at any of her palaces in or near London, except Windsor Castle, where the chapel ranked as a royal peculiar and had its own choir.

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R.M.A. Research Chronicle , Volume 5 , 1965 , pp. 13 - 46
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1965

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1 York corporation House book, xxiv, f. 241 (at York city Record Office).Google Scholar

2 'The old Cheque Book, or Book of Remembrance of the Chapel Royal', ed. E. F. Rimbault, Camden Society, n. s., iii, 1872. Reprinted with an introduction by E.A. Wienandt, New York, 1966.Google Scholar

3 Hillebrand, H.N., ‘Early history of the Chapel Royal', Modern Philology, xviii, 1920, pp. 65–100.Google Scholar

1 cf. C.W. Wallace, The Evolution of the English drama, Berlin, 1912, p. 209.Google Scholar

2 Quoted in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, ii, ed. W.P. Baildon, London, 1914, p. 314.Google Scholar