1520—France

Just before the famous meeting of the Field of Cloth of Gold, Sir Richard Wingfield, English ambassador to France, reports the following to Cardinal Wolsey, chancellor for Henry VIII: “The King [Francis] was at mass today at the Jacobins, where high mass was sung by the bishop of Amiens. At the Kings offering, the chapel, with the hautbois [shawms] and sacbuts, sang and played together, ‘which was as melodious a noise as ever was heard’” (Herbert, Trombone 102; Stevens, Music & Poetry 313; Parrott, Grett and Solompne Singing).