Greensleeves - John Johnson

“Be ye ensured that I will be as good unto you as ever a Queen was unto her people“ — Elizabeth I - John Johnson (1540 - 1594), like most English Court musicians, probably began his career as a boy serving an apprenticeship to a player engaged in a great noble house, possibly that of the Earl of Leicester. This would normally last for seven years, and may have begun as soon as the early 1560s. One extant indenture, for a lutenist of a later generation, Daniel Bachelar, records that t