This volume continues the reordering of the Society's edition of Purcell's anthems. All eleven pieces in this volume were probably composed for the Chapel Royal, and all appear to belong to Purcell's later years. Four of them are explicitly dated – the earliest 1687 – in an authoritative source which was not available to previous editors of the music: a score-book in the hand of the celebrated bass singer John Gostling, whose cavernous low register Purcell exploited for its dramatic effect in some of his finest compositions for the Chapel.