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their way, to sing a stanza in three parts; and when they arrived at their own church, into which I gained admission, there was a band of instruments to receive them, who, between each stanza that they sung, played a symphony. They per- formed vespers in Canto Fermo, assisted by their chaplain: the whole was con- ducted with great decorum, and was cer- tainly a very innocent amusement. Some of the companies of Laudisti, in Florence, have subsisted near five hundred years. I found a folio MS. of Laudi Spirituali, with the notes, in the Magliabecchi library, composed for the company of friars of the order of the Umiliati, and sung at the church of All Saints, Florence, 1336.
Monday, Sept. 10. This afternoon, I had the pleasure of hearing Signor Nar- dini, and his little scholar Linley, at a great concert, at the house of Mr. Hemp-
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