Note 6 — BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.

Dr. Rimbault, in his Cheque Book of the Chapel Royal, quotes the following from Liber Niger Domini Regis (temp. Edward VI.): "The children of the Chappelle were 8 in number, with a Master of Songe to teach them. And when any of the children comene to be xviij yeares of age, and their voices change, ne cannot be preferred in this Chappelle, the nombere being full, then, yf they will assente, the kyng assynethe them to a College of Oxford or Cambridge of his fundatione, there to be at fynding and studye both suffycyently, tylle the king may otherwise advanse them."—Query, was Tusser assigned in this way to King's College, Cambridge?