John Hilton ("The Younger") (1599-1657). English musician and son of John Hilton (the elder...go figure!) (d. 1608) 1621-29: Organist of St Margaret's Church, Westminster. 1627: pub. "The Ayres, or Fa-La-La's". The quality of these 26 compositions have long been recognized. The eighteenth-century music historian Sir John Hawkins lavished high praise on them, considering them to surpass in quality similar works by Thomas Morley. Ernest Walker, too, described the pieces as "worthy of a place beside Morley's ballets," while Ian Spink observes that they are undeserving of their neglect "since many are attractive pieces, different rather than inferior to Morley's." 1628: BMus. (Cambridge). 1635-44: Lutenist to Charles I 1657: Sic Transit Gloria Johannes. Requiescat In Pace.