LOCK, Matthew, born at Exeter, was a chorister of the cathedral there under Edward Gibbons, and afterwards studied under Wake. He and Christopher Gibbons composed the music for Shirley's masque, ‘Cupid and Death,
’ ‘represented at the Military Ground in Leicester Fields
’ before the Portuguese Ambassador, March 26, 1653. In 1656 he published his ‘Little Consort of Three Parts
’ for viols or violins, composed, as he tells us, at the request of his old master and friend,...