Anecdotes
A well known story about Reading concerns an event of 1 December 1707. He was passing the house of his friend, the composer Jeremiah Clarke when he heard a loud gunshot. He dashed into the house to find his friend, who had shot himself, dying.
Reading was reported to have suffered from palsy, but it was more likely to have been epilepsy. It was said to have been caused by the Vox Humana stop on the organ at St Mary Woolnoth!
Read more about this topic: John Reading (composer, Organist And Copyist)
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