The autumn volume of Early Music Performer, the journal of the National Early Music Association, will include my article on the performance practice information to be gleaned from the L’Estrange manuscripts with particular reference to the organ. The L’Estranges were a staunchly royalist family who maintained a strongly musical household at their home in Hunstanton, Norfolk, in the mid seventeenth century. Their household musicians included Thomas Brewer and John Jenkins, both of whom assisted Sir Nicholas L’Estrange in compiling an important collection of consort manuscripts. Among the many fascinating details within the collection are the annotations that shed hugely interesting (and vanishingly rare) light on the ‘humouring’, or expressive realisation, of the music on the keyboard. We are fortunate in that we can link the manuscripts to the personalities, the place, and even the organ itself (which survives at Historic St Luke’s, Smithfield, Virginia) to provide a detailed context in which this music was played.