(1) Thomas, organist and vicar choral of Salisbury Cathedral, 1535-40 or 45. He received an annuity out of the dissolved monastery of Spalding, 1545-47. I t is as y e t impossible to decide in most cases which of the compositions merely signed Knight (or Knyghte, etc.) belong to this or the following composer. The beautiful Magnificat arranged for Novello's Parish Choir Book, No. 898, byRoyle Shore, is undoubtedly by Thomas, and probably also the Mass in the Peterhouse MS. (c. 1 5 3 0 -4 0 ), and Evening Canticles in John Day's ' Certaine Notes ' (1 5 6 0 -6 5 ) , which contains also the above Magnificat. Of the Mass and two motets (b.M. Add. MSS. 17,802-05) or the motet in Sadler's part books (Bodl. Lib.) it is so far impossible to say whether they are by Thomas or by (2) R o b e r t , who was a contemporary of the former, though he may have reached farther into the century, and author of the fivepart motet, ' Propterea maestum ' at Peterhouse (W. H. Grattan Flood in Mus. T. vol. lxii. p. 331; Q.-L.). E. v. d. s.