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Abstract Shortly after Michaelmas 1603 Lady Anne Clifford, daughter of the third Earl of Cumberland, visited her aunt at North Hall in Hertfordshire where, according to her diary, she ‘learned to sing & play on the Bass Viol of Jack Jenkins my Aunt’s Boy’.1 The young musician attached to the household of the widowed Anne Dudley, Countess of Warwick may have been the violist and composer, John Jenkins.2 Apart from a legacy of £10 a year which Lady Warwick bequeathed to her servant in 1604, nothing is known about the conditions under which Jenkins was employed;3 however, by the beginning of the seventeenth century the terms of service pertaining to the employment of boy musicians in the households of the ruling elite were well established.
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