ABSTRACT
The music for the coronation was in the very capable hands of Nathaniel Giles, a former organist of Worcester, and John Bull, whose name Tomkins had added to the list in his copy of A Plain and Easy Introduction. Another coronation anthem by Tomkins, O Lord grant the King a long life, also published in Musica Deo sacra. Which does not appear among the anthems sung at the coronations of James I or Charles I, may well have been written specially for national celebration or for local use at Worcester. Hopes were running high among English Catholics that in James I they would find a monarch more tolerant of their faith. Although Tomkins had access to a splendid organ, he continued to encourage the performance of verse anthems, and even full anthems, with instrumental accompaniment. Thomas Myriell, a great friend of Tomkins, compiled an anthology in 1616 under the title Tristitiae Remedium, housed in the British Library.
