Marbeck

Marbeck, or MERBECKE, JOHN, organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor, was condemned to the stake about 1544 for favouring the Reformation, but pardoned by favour of Bishop Gardiner. In 1550 he published his famous Booke of Common Praier Noted, an adaptation of the plain chant of the earlier rituals to the first liturgy of Edward VI. He wrote several theological and controversial works; and a hymn for three voices and parts of a mass by him are extant. He died about 1585.