Edward Taylor an Louis Spohr in Kassel

D^r. John Bull was the first Profesor of Music in Gresham College, London, to which office he was appointed by the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth. The Trustees of the College having requested her Majesty (who was well skilled in Music) to name the Music Profesor.
When James I came to the throne, D^r. Bull, with all the other English Musicians who ha adorned the reign of Elizabeth, experimend the neglect & proscription of the new Souvereign: the Art declined. - D^r. Bull (who had previously visited the Continent) quitted England and settled in Germany. From this time all trace of his history is lost, and it is not even knwon with certainty whether he died at Hamburg or Lubec. He quitted England about 1608, and were, probably, then about 30 to 40 Years old. He wrote much in Germany; for D^r. Pepusch (Organist in Lonon, who lived from 1720 to 1760) had a large Coollection of D^r. Bull‘s Music in MS¹ which is now almost entirely lost. & of which I posess the Catalogue. One only Anthem of D^r. Bull is preserved in D^r. Boyce‘s Collection of Cathedral Music.²
My respect for the memory of my first predecessor makes me wish to ascertain, if it be possible, the place of his burial & the grave of his death, which, probably, happened between the year 1620 & 1640.
 
Edw. Taylor
Gresham Profesor
of Music -
 
Cassel. June 28. 1840