1. Benoit, Versailles et les musiciens du roi, 276 and 317. The three musicians were all violinists Pierre Huguenet (1639–1722), Jacques Delaquièze (1644–1712) and Jean-Noel Marchand (1666–1710). The organist was a son of Pierre Jonquet (d. 1735).
2. An earlier version of this article was delivered at the British Library on 21 April 1994 as a Stefan Zweig lecture, at the kind invitation of Michael Oliver I should also like to record my gratitude to Jane Clark, who gave me invaluable help on a number of points concerning Fede and Couperin Above all, I am deeply indebted to Jean Lionnet, who shared with me the discovery of Fede's music at the Bibhothèque Nationale, analysed the manuscript scores and generously contributed his unrivalled knowledge of music and musicians at Rome in the late seventeenth century
3. Thomas Heywood and Gianbattista Cazale were both appointed Page of the Bedchamber to the queen, which suggests that she listened to music for tenor and harpsichord in her bedchamber. Heywood remained at St-Germain until 1715, when he joined James III in Lorraine He returned in 1716 after the king moved on to Avignon He was still at St-Germain in 1717 but, since he was an Anglican, the date of his death is unrecorded (See the Household lists referred to above in note 20, and HMC Stuart, iv (London, 1910), 479, Dicconson to Mary of Modena, 29 July 1717)
4. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS 14266, Journal of David Nairne, 1655–1708 References to this journal will cite ‘Nairne’ and the date
5. Davies, Papers of Devotion, 73, see also p 120