Air Music in Staffs

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Hammerwich

And this may perhaps be the Musick that was heard in the Air by Francis Aldridg of Hammerwich a sober person about two in the morning near Michaelmas an. 1668 though he described it to be a sort of whistling in the Air, and the tune more melodius to him than any he ever heard in his life time, before or since; it being performed he said (as he judged) by some winged creatures, for he could hear their wings beat the Air, though he could not see any thing by reason of the darkness. Thoguh some will have it a consort of Angles transporting some blessed soul that expired hereabout at that time; for he sayd they seemed to take the tune from one another, as if they bore different parts in the same Antiphone for a quarter of an hour together… Robert Plot 22

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