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  • Henry Lawes, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, Oxford
    Henry Lawes

    Henry Lawes’s Choice Psalmes (1648) also contained music by his brother and a commendatory sonnet by Milton. Lawes lost his court appointments during the English Civil Wars (1642–51) but regained them at the Restoration (1660). In 1656 he contributed music to Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes.

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    Henry Lawes’s Choice Psalmes (1648) also contained music by his brother and a commendatory sonnet by Milton. Lawes lost his court appointments during the English Civil Wars (1642–51) but regained them at the Restoration (1660). In 1656 he contributed music to Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes.

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