Fayrfax MS

London, British Library, Additional MS 5465: book of 124 mixed paper and parchment folios, 297 x 215 mm, in choirbook layout, copied. 1500. Contains 49 secular songs attributed to Browne, Banaster (Gilbert Banastir), William Cornyssh Junior, Richard Davy, Robert Fayrfax, Edmund Turges and others; a keyboard setting of Felix namque, Offertory at Lady Mass, was added c. 1540.  John Browne adopted the Tenor of Turges’s carol, 'From stormy wyndis’ (ff. 104v-108r) as his cantus firmus in E8.