A Tudor tunesmith

Probably born around 1485, the composer Nicholas Ludford is known to have worked in some capacity at the royal chapel at the Palace of Westminster and was also a parishioner of St Margaret’s, Westminster. His set of seven three-part Lady Masses, one of which is heard in the chapel at The Vyne, was found in a set of partbooks that were probably presented as a gift to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon between 1515 and 1525.