Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Simon Beale was one of Oliver Cromwell’s trumpeters from the 1640s, and played at his funeral in 1658. He was also a maker of trunpets and trombones, and a trumpet of his from 1667 is still in the Bate Collection at Oxford University.