from L&M Companion Mallard (Maylord), Thomas (d. 1665). Viol player and composer; once musician to Oliver Comwell; in service with Sandwich on his Spanish embassy.
"... I went to Jervas’s [THE WESTMINSTER BARBER] and took him and his wife over the water to their mother Palmer’s (the woman that speaks in the belly, and with whom I have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard), ..." -- Tuesday 4 August 1663
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from L&M Companion
Mallard (Maylord), Thomas (d. 1665). Viol player and composer; once musician to Oliver Comwell; in service with Sandwich on his Spanish embassy.
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"in 1635 Thomas Mallard an 'Italian Lute Maker' was living in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields."
Matthew Spring 'The Lute in Britain; a history of the instrument and its music' Oxford: OUP, 2001 p. 308
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"... I went to Jervas’s [THE WESTMINSTER BARBER] and took him and his wife over the water to their mother Palmer’s (the woman that speaks in the belly, and with whom I have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard), ..." -- Tuesday 4 August 1663
He's a friend of friends' relatives.