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TIL that Michael Wise, a C17th organist of Salisbury Cathedral, claimed the Dean & Chapter “wrongly deflected cathedral monies.” In turn, they accused him of negligence, profanity, drunkenness, and “other excesses in his life & conversation.” He later died in a bizarre quarrel with a night watchman.

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