24. Psalters, English. (from JOHN JULIAN, A DICTIONARY OF HYMNOLOGY)

List of Complete and Partial Versions of the Psalms in English from 1414 to 1889.

ENGLISH PSALTERS 1401-1600
*-Jupsalt1. 1414. Thomas Brampton. Paraphrase of the Seven Penitential Psalms. Edited with Notes for the Percy Society, 1842. [A. p. 105 ; and H. i. p. 74.]

Jupsalt2. 1539. Miles Coverdale, p. 264, i. Goostly Psalmes, p. 442, i.

*-Jupsalt3. 1547. John Croke. Thirteen Psalms tr. in the Reign of Henry VIII. Edited by Sir Alexander Croke, for the Percy Society, 1844.

*-Jupsalt4. 1547. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Reprinted in the Aldine and other editions of Surrey's Poems. (Ps. 55, 73, 88.) [H. i. p. 86.]

*-Jupsalt5. 1548. Queen Elizabeth. Ps. 14, at the end of A Godly Meditation of the Christian soul, &c., by Margaret, Q. of Navarre, and translated by the Princess Elizabeth. Reprinted in the Appendix to Cotton's list (as above), 1852. [F. p. 7; H. i. p. 146.]

*-Jupsalt6. 1548, c. T. Sternhold. Nineteen Psalms ; 2nd ed., 1549, 37 Psalms. See Old Version, $ ir.

*-Jupsalt7. 1549. Robert Crowley, The Psalter of David newly translated into English meter in such sort that it may the more decently, and with more delight of the mind, be read and sung of all men. Whereunto is added a note of four parts, with other things, as shall appear in the epistle to the reader, p. 270, i. [G. p. 62.]

-Jupsalt8. 1549. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Certain Psalms Chosen out of the Psalter of David, commonly called the Seven Penitential Psalmes drawen into English meter. Reprinted in the Aldine ed. of Wyatt's Poems. [H, i. p. 81.]

*-Jupsalt9. 1549. Sir Thomas Smith. Version of about a dozen psalms in a MS. in the Brit. Mus. (Reg. 17 A. xvii.) entitled Certaigne Psalmes or Songues of David. Translated into English meter, by Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, then prisoner in the Tower of London; with other Prayers and Songues by him made to pas the tyme there. 1549. [H. i. p. 161.]

*-Jupsalt10. 1550. John Hall, M.D., 12 psalms in his The Court of Virtue; containing many Holy or Spretual Songs, Sonnetts, Psalms, Ballets and Short Sentences, as well of Holy Scripture as others, with 3fusic Notes. [F. p. 196; H. i. p. 179.]

*-Jupsalt11. 1550. William Hunnis. (See also No. 32.) Certayne Psalmes chosen out of the Psalter of David, and drawen forth into Englyshe meter. [F. p. 143;
H. i. p. 152.]

*-Jupsalt12. 1551. William Forrest, MS. in the Brit. Mus. (Reg. 17, A. xxi.) Certayne Psalmes of Davyd in Meeatre, added to maister Sterneholdis, and oothers, by William Forreste, 1551. This is dedicated to Edward, Duke of Somerset. [H. i. p. 164.]

-Jupsalt13. 1551. T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins. 3rd ed.: All such Psalms of David as T. Sternehold did in his life time draw into English Meter , in which 7 versions by Hopkins are added. See Old Version, $ n.

*-Jupsalt14. 1552. John Bale. Ps. 23, and 132, appended to his Expostulation, or complaynte against the blasphemies of a frantic priest in Hamshyre.

*-Jupsalt15. 1553. Francis Seager. 19 psalms versified in his Certayne Psalmes select out of the Psalter of Dauid, and drawn into Englyshe Metre, with Notes to every Psalme in iiij to Synge, by F. §& S. [H, i. p. 168,]

*-Jupsalt16. 1556. Anglo-Genevan Psalter. See Old Version,

*-Jupsalt17. 1556. Miles Huggarde. A short treatise in metre on the 129th Psalm.

*-Jupsalt18. 1558. William Kethe. In addition to his versions noted under 0. Version, and Scottish Hymnody, there is one of Ps. 94 printed at the end of John Knox's Appellation. (See p. 624, i.)

*-Jupsalt19. 1559-61. T. Sternhold and others. See Old Version, $$ iv., v.

*-Jupsalt20. 1560, c. Matthew Parker, Whole Psalter translated into English meter, which contains a Hundred and Fifty Psalms. The First Quinquagene. [G. p. 63.]

*-Jupsalt21. 1561. Anglo-Genevan Psalter. See Old Version, $ in.

-Jupsalt22. 1562. Sternhold and Hopkins. The complete English Psalter. See Old Version, $ vn.

*-Jupsalt23. 1563. Thomas Becon. Ps. 103 and 112, in his Comfortable Epistle to the Afflicted People of God.

*-Jupsalt24. 1564. Scottish Psalter, See Scottish Hymnody, $iv.

*-Jupsalt25. 1566. John Pits. Two psalms. [F, p. 387.]

*-Jupsalt26. 1568. John Wedderburn (q.v.).

*-Jupsalt27. 1570, c. Sir John Harrington. Version of the Psalms in MS. in the Douce Collection in the Bodleian. Specimens in Park's ed. of the Nugx Antiquee, 1804. [F. p. 115.]

*-Jupsalt28. 1574. lady Elizabeth Tyrwhitt. In her tract Morning and Evening Praises with divers Psalms, Hymns, and Meditations.

*-Jupsalt29. 1575. George Gascoigne (p. 405, i.). Ps. 130 in his A Hundredth sundrie Flowres, &c.

*-Jupsalt30. 1582. Richard Stanyhurst. Four versions (Ps. i.-iv.) at the end of his tr. of the Aeneid. Specimen in H. i. p. 189. Copy of the Aeneid in the Bodleian. The versions are in English hexameters.

*-Jupsalt31. 1583. William Byrd. Medius: Psalmes, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety. [F. p. 222.]

*-Jupsalt32. 1585. William Hunnis. (See also No. 11.) Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sinne, comprehending those Seven Psalmes of the Princelie Prophet David, commonlie called Penitentiall, &c, 1585. Copy in the Brit. Mus. [F. p. 143 ; H. i. p. 152.]

*-Jupsalt33. 1587. Sir Philip Sidney, and Mary, Countess of Pembroke (q.v.).

*-Jupsalt34. 1589. Richard Robinson. [F. p. 364.]

*-Jupsalt35. 1591. Abraham Fraunce. Eight versions in his The Countess of Pembroke's Ivy Church, and Emanuel. [F. p. 237 ; H. i. p. 226.]

*-Jupsalt36. 1594. Henry Lok. Sundry Psalms of David, translated into verse, as briefly and significantly as the scope of the text will suffer. (Bodleian, 1594.) Also Ecclesiastes, otherwise called the Preacher; containing Salomon's Sermons, or Commentaries (as may probably be collected), vpon the 49 Psalme of Dauid, his father, &c. London: Rich. Field, 1597. [F, p. 136; H. i. p. 229.] See also the Fuller Worthies Miscellanies, ii. 1871.

*-Jupsalt37. 1597. Michael Cosowarth, circa 1597. Some select Psalms. [F. p. 406.]

*-Jupsalt38. 1600, c. Sir John Davies. His Metaphrase of Ps. 1-50, and a few others remained in use. until 1876, when they were included in Dr. Grosart's ed. of Davies's Poetical Works in his Fuller Worthies' Library.