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MERBECK (or MARBECK), JOHN (d. c. 1585)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MERBECK (or MARBECK), See also:JOHN (d. c. 1585)  , See also:English theological writer and musician; was organist of St See also:George's, See also:Windsor, about 1540 . Four years later he was convicted of See also:heresy and sentenced to the stake, but received a See also:pardon owing to the intervention of See also:Gardiner, See also:bishop of See also:Winchester, though Gardiner had himself censured See also:Merbeck for compiling an English See also:Concordance of the See also:Bible . This See also:work, the first of its See also:kind in English, was published in 1550 with a See also:dedication to See also:Edward VI . In the same See also:year Merbeck published his annotated See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer, intended to provide for musical uniformity in the use of the First Prayer Book of Edward VI., which was several times reprinted in the 19th See also:century . Merbeck wrote several devotional and controversial See also:works of a strongly Calvinistic See also:character, and a number of his musical compositions are preserved in See also:manuscript in the See also:British Museum, and at See also:Oxford and See also:Cambridge . He died, probably while still organist at Windsor, about 1585 . His son, See also:ROGER MERBECK (1536-16o5), a noted classical See also:scholar, was appointed public orator in the university of Oxford in 1564, and in 1565 became a See also:canon of See also:Christ See also:Church and was elected See also:provost of See also:Oriel; he See also:left Oxford on See also:account of an unfortunate See also:marriage, and took to See also:medicine as a profession, becoming the first registrar of the See also:College of Physicians in See also:London, and See also:chief physician to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth .

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