Dallam, Thomas; Covel, John; Bent, James Theodore [Editor]: Early voyages and travels in the Levant: with some account of the Levant Company of Turkey Merchants (London, 1893)

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the instruments they constructed. Of this particu-
lar one, which Dallam made, and which was set up
in Whitehall for Queen Elizabeth's approval prior
to its being shipped off to Constantinople, there
appears to be no other record ; but, immediately on
his return from the East, Thomas Dallam seems to
have worked hard at his trade, and he and his sons
constructed most of the principal organs of the
seventeenth century.

In 1605-6 Dallam was engaged for fifty-eight
weeks in constructing the organ of King's College,
Cambridge, for which purpose he closed his work-
shop in London, and for this work he received the
sum of ,£371 ijs. id. This organ was destroyed
in the civil wars, but the case still remains. In 1607
he got £1 15^. for tuning the same organ, and a like
sum for the sale of surplus tin, and his name fre-
quently occurs in the College records till 1641. In
1613 Dallam made "new double organs" for Wor-
cester Cathedral, and got £211. This organ was
likewise destroyed in the rebellion.

On 29th of September 1626, Thomas Dallam was
made a steward of the annual feast of the Black-
smiths' Company, but did not put in an appearance,
and was fined £\o for neglect of duty. In the
following year he petitioned in court to be let off his
stewardship, and his petition was granted him on
payment of certain small fines.

Almost immediately after his return from Con-
stantinople Thomas Dallam must have married, for
his eldest son, Robert, was born in 1602, and was

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