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million, and thefe two were defign’d (upon Vacancy)to the Vicars Places. But for the other Two, Inftitu-tion into lefler Orders, in which they were to conti-nue, were fufficient. Each of the Two firft fort hadEight Marks per Ann. and the other Two but Six. KingEd. IV. encreas’d their Number to Thirteen, and al-low’d them io /. per Ann. They are mention’d to beThirteen in Hen. VIII’s Statutes, i Ed. VI. they wereencreas’d to Fifteen 3 but here appointed to be Lay-men, wearing Surplices in the Choir, each having thefame Allowance. 4 Ed. VI. a Model was propofed toaugment the Number of thefe Fifteen Clerks to Twen-ty. But in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth they wereagain reduced to Thirteen, as at this prefent they re-main, (one of them as Organift hath a doub’e Clerk’sPlace, and confequently reckon’d for Two) and anAugmentation to each of 2 /. 1 3 s. . 4 d. three Farthingsyearly 3 which being at firft: oppofed by the Dean andPrebends, they at length (5 £/«..) confented to allowthem 40 s. per Ann. a-piece, not out of the new Lands,but out of other Payments which the Dean and Chapterfhould otherwife receive 3 and 1662. they encreafedtheir annual Penfions to 23 /. a-piece. They are obli-ged to be prefent in the Choir at Divine Serviceas well as the Petty Canons, and under the fameForfeitures ; nor may they or the Petty Canons go outof Town above Three at once, left the Choir fhould beleft unprovided.

CHOIRISTERS.

For the Service of the Choir were appointed SixChoirifters, and they to be of the Clerical Order attheir Admiffion 3 to each of which was allow’d FiveMarks per Ann. And as the Deacon and Sub-deaconwere plac’d in the College only in Addition to theVicars, and defign’d to fucceed them in their Vacan-cies 3 fo alfo were there Six fecular Children, enduedwith clear tuneable Voices, to fucceed the Choirifters,when they perceiv’d a Roughnefs or Alteration in theirVoices. King Ed. IV. encreas’d the Number of Choi-rifters to Thirteen,and allow’d them annually Six Marksa-piece, and which was again confirm’d by King f/.VIII’s

Statutes.