Regular episode  • Season 2  • 8 • (New) The Lambeth Articles to Hampton Court - No Bishop, No King!.

Audio • Season 2 • Episode 8 • The Lambeth Articles to Hampton Court, No Bishop, No King!.

 Artwork •        Lambeth Palace

 Music 1  •     Royal Brass Music Of King James 1

This collection features 17th-century English instrumental music, primarily composed for brass instruments of the time, and recorded under the direction of Thurston Dart. The ensemble includes:

- Maurice André and Jean Pirot (trumpets)

- Maurice Suzan, Henri Arqué, Camille Verdier, and Bernard Gallot (trombones)

- Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord continuo)

The piece is performed by a six-member ensemble of trumpets and trombones, composed initially for King James I's court.

The ensemble, known as the Royal Wind Music, would have originally featured a twenty-piece band of sackbuts and cornetts.

A sackbut, is an early trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, it features a telescopic slide, that adjusts the tube length to change pitch. Known for its softer, mellower tone, due to a narrower bore and smaller bell, the name "sackbut", comes from the Old French words for "push" and "pull," which describe its slide action.

The cornett, is a historical, lip-reed, wind instrument, from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, made of wood, and covered in leather. It features fingerholes and a mouthpiece, enabling it to blend seamlessly with voices. The cornett was popular, for both instrumental and vocal music, before the invention of valved instruments.

Episode Notes:

In 1603, John Robinson delivered a sermon in Norwich based on Psalm 118:24, expressing the hope that King James would have a positive impact on the Church of England.

On 20 November 1595, church leaders, including Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift, convened at Lambeth Palace to draft the Lambeth Articles without Queen Elizabeth's consent. 

These nine statements aimed to address predestination controversies and marked the first Calvinistic addition to the Thirty-Nine Articles, tackling the emerging threat of Arminianism.

In January 1604, King James I convened at Hampton Court Palace with representatives of the Church of England, including Puritans, in response to the Millenary Petition for reform. 

The meeting, postponed from November 1603 due to the plague, featured Archbishop Whitgift leading eight bishops, including Richard Bancroft, who opposed the Puritan demands.