In the Chapter Acts (the Chapter Acts are minutes of the meetings of the Dean and Canons), reference is made to Randall Tinker. The Chapter Acts record that on 28 March 1596, a member of the Chapel choir, Edward Langford, was admonished for drunkenness. One of the witnesses to the admonishment was Randall Tinker, described as a ‘Clerke’. As a clerk, Randall Tinker would have been one of the male singers in the St George’s Chapel choir. When the College of St George was first founded in 1348, the Statutes established that there would be four clerks but by the 1590s, when Randall Tinker was a clerk, this number had grown to approximately eleven. The clerks sang at services and lived within the grounds of the castle. The clerks were paid for singing in the choir and I have consulted the Treasurers’ Account Rolls for the 1590s. Not all account rolls for that period survive, including the years 1595-7. However, in the rolls for 1591-4 and 1597-1601, the surnames of the clerks are given. The name Tinker is not listed amongst them, but rather peculiarly, Randall is. If the Randall listed is indeed Randall Tinker, it is quite strange that his first name is given instead of his surname.

There are no more references to Randall after 1601, so I did some research and found that Randall Tinker was admitted as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1606. In The old-cheque book, or Book of remembrance, of the Chapel royal, from 1561-1744 (https://archive.org/stream/oldchequebookorb00stjarich#page/6/mode/2up/search/tinker) the following entries are found on p.6 :

“1606 Edward Browne died the 27th of Aprill, and Randoll Tinker of Poules was sworne in his place the same daie”.

“1606 Randoll Tinker died of the Plague the 20th of Sept., and Luke Jones of Poules was sworne in his place the last of the same”.

The Chapel Royal is quite distinct from the Chapel of St George. It is the body of priests and singers appointed to minister to the temporal and spiritual needs of the sovereign and the Royal Household. As such, it is a collection of people, not a building, although it has become identified with certain buildings within which it regularly conducts divine service, such as St James’s Palace. The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal are the male singers of the choir. The entry makes reference to ‘Poules’. This suggests that Randall Tinker was a member of the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral prior to his admission to the Chapel Royal. I believe the archives of St Paul’s Cathedral are held by the London Metropolitan Archives since 2013, so they might be able to provide you with more information (http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA?LOGONFORM).

An entry on exlibris.org (http://www.exlibris.org/eem/eem_reformation.html) mentions that Randall Tinker was Instructor of the Choristers at Eton from 1577-8 so I would suggest that you contact the archivist at Eton, Mrs Eleanor Hoare, to see if you can obtain any more information (http://www.etoncollege.com/CollegeArchives.aspx).