A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber.

Date:
1781
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Credit: A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] or that they had fo far forgotten the end and defign of a Concert, as not to refledl on the expediency of engaging fo valuable a performer as he is, in fp 'tte oj precedence and etiquette ? Or (to put one queftion more) could any one perfuade himfelf that inde¬ pendent gentlemen would fuifer themfelves to be made the tools of other people’s enmity^ that they would affift in carrying their fchemes of revenge into execution ? Or that having expended their mo¬ ney in fupport of a Concert, they would confent to have it ruined by the introdudtion of party quarrels, and in order to pleafe two or three angry people, who, like little children, fumed and fretted becaufe they could not have what they cried for ? Let us go to the bottom of this mighty conteft, and let us afk. What had the Chapter done that could be matter of offence to any fubfcriber be¬ longing to the Concert ? They had ufed their own difcretion (that allowed them by the conftitution of their church) in choofing their own fervant. Of two candidates, they had preferred, confeffedly, the moft able Organift. On the death of Dr. Stephens, (indeed before he was dead) many applications were made to the Chapter in favor of Mr. Corfe, but fcarcely one that I have ever heard of, in favor of Mr. Pa RRY. His merits were his only advo¬ cates. I have been well informed, that the Chapter (thus folicited on one hand, and Mr. Parry’s abi¬ lities pleading forcibly on the other) had intended to bring the talents of the two candidates to an open trial, that they and the public might judge which ought to be preferred. But this defign was upon the matureft deliberation (I may fay) bene¬ volently \ why, and for whofe fake, need not he mentioned. Upon the whole, no eledion, perhaps.
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