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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2016
During the second half of the eighteenth century there were a number of Catholic Musicians, both amateur and professional, who formed a friendly group of composers and performers. They met in each other's houses for concerts, and they joined together to raise the standard of music in the Embassy Chapels. They took an active part in such musical associations as the Madrigal Society, the Catch Club, and the Academy of Ancient Music. In this way they mixed with non-Catholics of like tastes.
(1) Gloucester Street seems to have been a Catholic centre. In addition to Bishop Challoner and Samuel Webbe, the residents included Charles Dignura. Sylas Neville, in his recently published diary (Oxford, 1950), twice took lodgings in that street during this period and on both occasions his landladies were Catholics.
(2) A footnote to page 97 of Hubert Langley's Doctor Arne (Cambridge, 1938) states that copies of the two Masses were sent to Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York, and are now in the Vatican Library. Mr Langley now informs me that this is not correct as he had misunderstood some information given him. He has recently, however, found part of a Mass by Arne in the St. Cecilia Library, Rome, but as this is in five parts it is not apparently one of the two completed Masses. Further enquiries in Rome have not so far been fruitful. Two pages of the “Libera me” are reproduced in Mr.Langley’s book. He also states there that part of a Mass by Arne was used in a church in Newcastle-on-Tyne about 1938. All efforts to check this statement have so far failed.
(3) These two accounts are given in Dr.W.H.Cumraings’ Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia (1912). Unfortunately the source of the quotations is not given.
(4) A Collection of Masses, with an Accompaniment for the Organ, Particularly design’d for the use of Small Choirs, By S.Webbe. Publish’d by his Permission and under his immediate Inspection, with others on the same Plan by Ricci and Paxton, (1792).