Note 52 — MEMOIRS OF DR. BURNEY, BY HIS DAUGHTER MAD. D’ARBLAY.
Reading edition
There is some great mistake in this. From the year of the Commemoration it was resolved to enlarge, not contract, the scale, and each succeeding season saw an augmentation, till the number of performers was gradually increased from between 500 and 600, to nearly 1000. (Editor of Harmonicon.)