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Given as Dunstable in Eton.
Birthdate not known: some compositions have been dated to the 1410s.
Probably in the service of John, Duke of Bedford, in 1420s; and of Joan (dowager queen of Henry IV), 1427-37; entered service of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1438; rector of St Stephen's Walbrook, London, probably through the patronage of Duke Humphrey, from 1440s until his death in 1453.
The lost Gaude flore virginali (E44) attributed to him in the indexes of MS 178 would have been much the oldest piece in the choirbook (50 years old or more when the manuscript was copied); it has been associated with an anonymous setting in GB-Lbl 54324. As late as 1529, an inventory of King's College, Cambridge included ‘Dunstabylls Exultavit’.
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With support from the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University.