Bolles

John Dilworth

BOLLES 17th century UK. Early English viol maker known only from Mace’s Musick’s Monument (1676) which states (of viols) ‘the highest in esteem are Bolles and Ross’ and that a bass viol of Bolles was valued at £100. He goes on to say that ‘these were old’; Ross, or Rose, father and son, were active c.1530-1600, implying that Bolles was of similar period. No instruments currently known and all references to the name come from the 17th century. A letter from Arthur Hill in 1937 mentions a viol by Boles of Oxford, to which he attributes a date of 1675. Sir Robert Bolles of Scampton, Lincolnshire (1619-1663) was a significant collector of viols, and his son Robert (II) was given instruction in music by the renowned viol player Christopher Simpson, though any connection with Mace’s viol maker remains speculative. [Fleming]

William Meredith Morris

A celebrated maker of lutes and viols, and the most celebrated, judging from a statement in Mace’s ” Musick’s Monument,” which conveys the information that the writer had seen a bass of his valued at £100.

Cecie Stainer

One of the earliest makers of lutes and viols in London in the beginning of the 17th century. Mace (” Musick’s Monument,” publ. 1676), speaking of a good “chest of viols, ‘ says : ” Yet the highest in esteem are Bolles . . . (one Bass of Bolles’s I have known valued at £100) . . . these were old &c.”

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

Th. Mace bezeichnet ihn als einen der berühmtesten englischen
Violen- und Lautenmacher seiner Zeit und schätzt den Werth einer
Bassviola dieses Meisters schon damals (1676) auf 100 £. Sehr
bedauerlicher Weise scheinen sich gerade von ihm keinerlei Arbeiten erhalten zu haben.

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John Dilworth

William Meredith Morris

Cecie Stainer

Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

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