 In the 1580s , Peerson was a choirboy of St. Paul 's Cathedral in London under organist Thomas Mulliner . Subsequently , he came under the patronage of the poet Fulke Greville . On May Day in 1604 Peerson 's setting of the madrigal See , O See , Who is Heere Come a <unk> was performed as part of Ben Jonson 's Private Entertainment of the King and Queene at the house of Sir William Cornwallis at Highgate ( now in London ) . A letter dated 7 December 1609 states that at the time Peerson was living at Newington ( now Stoke Newington , London ) and had composed several lessons for the virginals , which was his principal instrument . It appears that he had Roman Catholic sympathies , for that year , on the same occasion as Jonson , he was convicted of recusancy – the statutory offence of not complying with the established Church of England . 
