Sympson, Christopher

SYMPSON (or SIMPSON, as he sometimes spelled his name), Christopher, was an eminent performer on, and teacher of the viol, in the 17th century. During the Civil War he served in the army raised by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, in support of the royal cause, and afterwards became an inmate of the house of Sir Robert Bolles, a Leicestershire baronet, whose son he taught. In 1655 he annotated Dr. Campion's ‘Art of Setting or Composing of Musick in...