The British Musical Biography

[E] Chilmead, Edmund, scholar and mu-
sician, was born at Stow-in-the-Wold, Glou-
cester, 1611. Clerk of Magdalen College,
Oxford. Canon of Christ Church, 1632.
Resided with Este the musician, in London,
1648. He died at London in 1654. Wrote
" De Musica Antiqua Grteca," printed at the
end of the Oxford edition of " Aratus," 1672.
He gave concerts in London, and drew up a
catalogue of the Greek MSS. in the Bodleian
library. " He was well versed in the old
music, and was the best qualified at that time
.... to enter upon this subject." — Hearnc.

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