Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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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.
“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