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 1601-1700

*-Jupsalt39. 1601. Robert or Richard Verstegan. Odes in Imitation of the vii. Penitential Psalms, with Sundry other Poems and Ditties tending to devotion and piety. By R. V. [H. i. p. 232.]

-Jupsalt40. 1603. Henry Dod. Metrical versions of certain Psalms, by " H. D." (Cambridge University Library); and, Al the Psalmes of David, with certene Songes and Canticles of Moses, Debora, and others, not formerly extant for Song, &c, 1620. [F. p. 449; G. p. 71; H. i. p. 250.] See also No. 50.

*-Jupsalt41. 1604. Elizabeth Grymeston. Miscellanea: prayers, meditations, memoratines. In this are Odes in imitation of the seuen Psenitentiall Psalmes, in seuen seueral kinde of verse. [F. p. 412.]

*-Jupsalt42. 1605. Alexander Montgomery. The Mindes Melodic: Contayning certayne Psalmes of the Kinglie Prophete Dauid, applyed to a new and pleasant tune, verie comfortable to everie one that is rightlie acquainted therewith. Fourteen versions. [H. i. p. 242.]

*-Jupsalt43. 1607. Bp. Joseph Hall. Some few of David's Psalmes metaphrazed in metre (i.-x.) In his Works, vii. p. 158. 8vo edition. [H. ii. p. 29.] Reprinted in Singer's ed. of Bp. Hall's Poems, 1824; in Peter Hall's ed. of the same, 1839; and in Dr. Grosart's private reprint. [A. p. 35 ; H. ii. p. 29.]

-Jupsalt44. 1612. Henry Ainsworth. The Booke of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre. Printed at Amsterdam. [G. p. 70; H. i. p. 245.] See p. 33, i.

*-Jupsalt45. 1612. Sir John Davies, of Hereford. The Penitential Psalms, printed as the " Doleful Dove," in his Muses Sacrifice. Reprinted in Grosart's Chertsey Worthies Library.

*-Jupsalt46. 1613. Sir Thomas leighton. Seven penitential Psalms in his Tears, or Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul.

-Jupsalt47. 1615. Sir Edwin Sandys. Fiftie Select Psalms of David, and Others. [H. i. p. 271.]

*-Jupsalt48. 1615. David Murray. A Paraphrase of Ps. 104. Reprinted for the Bannatype Club, 1823.

*-Jupsalt49. 1619. George Wither. Preparation to the Psalter. Reprinted in the Spenser Society's reprint of Wither. See also No. 56.

Jupsalt50. 1620. Henry Dod, Al the Psalmes of David, with certene Songes and Canticles of Moses, Debora, and others, not formerly extant for Song, &c, . See No. 40.

*-Jupsalt51. 1620. C. Davison, F. Davison, J. Bryan, R. Gipps. Versions by these four writers are given in a MS. in the Brit. Mus. (Harl. 6930) entitled Divers selected Psalms of David (in verse) of a different composure from those used in Church. By Fra. Davison, Esq., deceased, and other gentlemen. [A. pp. 31, 223, 245; F. pp. 318-337; H. i. pp. 235-240.] All the Psalms of the two Davisons, with specimens of the other writers, and also of T. Carew are printed- from another MS. in Brooke's edition of Giles Fletcher, Lond. Griffith, Farran, &c, 1888.

-Jupsalt51a. 1621. (Thomas Ravenscroft, The Whole Booke of Psalmes: With the Hymnes Evangelicall, and Songs Spirituall .1621),

-Jupsalt52. 1625. Francis Bacon. Certain Psalmes in Verse. Reprinted in Grosart's Fuller Worthies Miscellanies, vol. i., 1870. [H. i. p. 268.]

*-Jupsalt53. 1630, c. Earl of Cumberland. A MS. in the Bodleian, Poetical Translations of some Psalms, and the Song of Solomon, with other Divine Poems. By
that noble and religious Soule now sainted in heaven, the right honourable Henry Earle of Cumberland, &c. Sixteen psalms in metre. [H. ii. p. 269.]

*-Jupsalt54. 1631. James I. See Sir W. Alexander, p. 39, i.; and Scottish Hymnody, $ ir. 3. [G. p. 74.]

*-Jupsalt55. 1631. John Vicars. England's Hallitujah for God's Gratious Benediction; with some Psalms of David in verse. Nineteen versions. [H. i. p. 274.]

Jupsalt56. 1632. George Wither, q.v. (See also No. 49.) The Psalms translated into Lyric Verse, according to the scope of the Original; and Illustrated with a short Argument and a brief Prayer, or Meditation, before and after every Psalm. By George Wither. Imprinted in the Netherlands, &c. [A. p. 116; G. p. 76; H. ii. p. 11; L. p. 1.]

*-Jupsalt57. 1632. George Herbert, p. 511, ii. Seven versions in Playford's Music Book. Reprinted in Grosart's Fuller Worthies Library, 1874. [H. i. p. 279.]

-Jupsalt57a. (Anon., All the French Psalm tunes with English words, a collection of Psalms accorded to the verses and times used in the reformed Churches of France and Germany, T. Harper 1632.)

*-Jupsalt58. 1633. John Donne. Ps. 137 in his Poems, 1633, and later editions.

*-Jupsalt59. 1633. Phineas Fletcher, p. 379, i. Six versions in Miscellanies appended to his Purple Island. [A, p. 218; and H. ii. p. 16.j

*-Jupsalt60. 1634. Richard Goodridge. A Paraphrase of the whole Psalter, and additional versions of more than 100 psalms. [H. ii. 53.]

*-Jupsalt61. 1636. George Sandys (q.v.) A Paraphrase upon the first booke of the Psalmes of David. [A. p. 53 ; G. p. 78 ; H. i. p. 288.] -(1872 edition George Sandys, Poetical Works)

*-Jupsalt62. 1638. Anonymous. The Psalms in Metre, altered from the Old Version.

*-Jupsalt63. 1638. R. B. The Psalmes of David the King and Prophet and of other holy Prophets, paraphrased in English: conferred with the Hebrew veritie, set forth by B. Arias Montanus, together with the Latin, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee Paraphrase. By R. B. London: Printed by Robert Young, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop under St. Martin's Church, neere Ludgate, 1638. The "R. B." is sometimes said to mean Robert Burnaby (Mr. Taylor supports this view), and at other times Richard Brathwaite.

*-Jupsalt64. 1638. A Rotterdam Version. The Booke of Psalmes in English Meeter. Printed for Henry Tutill, Bookseller, Rotterdam. (Lambeth Library.) [G. p. 80.]

-Jupsalt65. 1640. The Bay Psalter, p. 119, i., and American Hymnody, $ i. [G. p. 82.]

*-Jupsalt66. 1640. Anonymous. Paraphrase of the entire Psalms. In the Bodleian Library. Specimen in Cotton's Appendix, p. 148.

*-Jupsalt67. 1641. Francis Rous [Rouse]. See Scottish Hymnody. [G. p. 84.]

*-Jupsalt68. 1642. William Slatyer. Psalmes or Songs of Zion, 1642, reprinted as The Psalmes of David, in 4 Languages and in 4 Parts; Set to ye Tunes of our Church. By W. S. 1643. Ps. i.-xxii. in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English. [H. i. 303.]

*-Jupsalt69. 1642. F. Thome. The Soul's Solace in Times of Trouble, collected out of the Psalmes of David. (3rd ed., 1652.)

Jupsalt70. 1644. William Barton, The Book of Psalms in meter close and proper to the Hebrew, smooth and pleasant for the meter, plain and easy for the tunes : with musical notes, arguments, annotations, and index: fitted for the ready use and understanding of all good Christians. See p. 116, ii. [G. p. 87.]

*-Jupsalt71. 1644. Francis Roberts. The Book of Praises, &c, Afterwards embodied in his Clavis Biblioruvi, the Key to the Bible, unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures, 1675 [H. ii. p. 63.] See Nos. 86, 91.

*-Jupsalt72. 1645. John Milton, p. 737, i.

*-Jupsalt73. 1646. Zachary Boyd, p. 167, ii. [G. p. 89.]

*-Jupsalt74. 1648. Richard Crashaw, p. 268, i.

Jupsalt75. 1650. Scottish Psalter. Authorised edition. See Scottish Hymnody, fi in. [G. p. 90.]

*-Jupsalt76. 1650. New England. The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, faithfully translated into English Meter, for the Edification and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England. London, Printed for Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown, in St. Paul's Church Yard. [Brit. Mus.] This was mainly a revised version of Rous's Psalter made by President Dunster of Harvard College, Richard Lyon, and thirty others. It had a large circulation and was in extensive use for many years. [-G. p. 91.]

*-Jupsalt77. 1650. Henry Vaughan (q. v.).

-Jupsalt78. 1651. Bp. Henry King. The Psalms of David from the New Translation of the Bible turned into Meeter. To be sung after the Old Tunes used in the Churches. [G. p. 92.]

*-Jupsalt79. 1651. Sir Henry Wotton. Ps. 104 in Reliquiee Wottonianse. [A. p. 185; H. i. p. 297.] Re-printed in Dr. Hannah's Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose. Aldine edition.

*-Jupsalt80. 1651, c. Thomas, Lord Fairfax, (the Parliamentary General), Version of the Psalms. Formerly in the Museum of Ralph Thoresby, at Leeds, as he tells us in his Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 510." [H. ii. 18, note.} This MS. passed through the collection of the Duke of Sussex into that of Dr. Bliss. A detailed account of it is given in the Preface to Cotton's Editions of the Bible, 1852.

*-Jupsalt81. 1654. John White. David's Psalms in Metre, agreeable to the Hebrew, to be sung in usual Tunes, to the benefit of the Churches of Christ. By the Reverend Mr. Jolln White, Minister of God's Word in Dorchester.
London, printed by S. Griffin for J. Rothwel, at the Fountain and Bear in Goldsmith's Row in Cheapside. 1655. [G. p. 93; H. ii. p. 68.] -(1655 edition)

*-Jupsalt82. 1655. Henry Lawes. Five versions in Select Psalms of a new Translation.

*-Jupsalt83. 1656. Abraham Cowley. Psalm 114 in his Davideis, and again in later eds. of his Poems.

*-Jupsalt84. 1661. Samuel Leigh. Samuelis Primitise, or An Essay towards a Metrical version of the whole Book of Psalmes. Composed when attended with the disadvantageous circumstances of youth and sickness.
By Samuel Leigh, &c. (Bodleian Library.) [H. ii. p. 55.]

*-Jupsalt85. 1665. Lord Coleraine. (See also No. 90.) The Ascents of the Soul, on David's Mount towards God's House. Being Paraphrases on the Fifteen Psalms of Degrees, written in Italian by the Illustrious Gio. Francesca Loredano, a noble Venetian, 1656. Rendered into English, Anno Dom., 1665 {Brit. Mus. ed. 1681). In the same volume there is, also by Lord Coleraine, La Scala Santa: or a Scale of Devotions, Musical and Gradual, Being Descants on the Fifteen Psalms of Degrees, in Metre; with Contemplations and Collects upon them in Prose, 1670. [A. p. 225; and H. ii. p. 88.]

*-Jupsalt86. 1665. Francis Roberts. His Clavis Bibliorum. The key of the Bible, unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures, appeared in 1648 and 1649 without his versions of the Psalms. These were added in the 3rd ed., 1665. The 4th ed. is dated 1674. -(1675 edition). A few copies of the Psalms had previously been pub. Anonymously and in a separate form as *-Anon., The Book of Praises. This was identified as the work of Roberts by Mr. A. Gardyne, of Hackney. See also Nos. 71, 91. [G. p. 99.]

*-Jupsalt87. 1667. Bp. Samuel Woodford. A Paraphrase in English Verse, upon the Books of the Psalms, by Sam. Woodford, S. R. S. The MS. is in the Brit. Mus. (Harl. 1768.) [H. ii. p. 73.] The title of the 1st ed., 1667, was, A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David. By Sam Woodford. London: Printed by R. White for Octavian Pullen, near the Pump, in Little Britain.

-Jupsalt87a. 1667. Bp. Samuel Woodford.The title of the ed. of 1678 was much fuller; A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David and the Canticles, with Select Hymns of the Old and New Testament, to which is added occasional Compositions in Verse. By Samuel Woodford, D.D. Printed and Sold by Samuel Keble, at the Turk's Head in Fleet Street. 1678[G. p. 95.]

*-Jupsalt88. 1667. Mary Beale. Four versions of Psalms in Woodford'8 Paraphrase as above (13, 52, 70, 130). [H. ii. p. 77.]

-Jupsalt89. 1668. Miles Smyth. Psalms of King David, Paraphrased and turned into English verse, according to the Common Metre, as they are usually sung in Parish Churches. [G. p. 98 ; H. ii. p. 57; L. p. 178.]

*-Jupsalt90. 1670. Lord Coleraine. See No. 85. (Coleraine, Hugh Hare, Baron & Loredano, Giovanni Francesco – La Scala Santa, or, A Scale of devotions musical and gradual being descants on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, in metre: with contemplations and collects upon them, in prose, 1670 London) (1681 edition)

-Jupsalt91. 1675. Francis Roberts. (See No. 86.) Clavis Bibliorum. The Key of the Bible, unlocking the richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures, etc., whereunto are added the Metrical Version of the whole Book of Psalmes, Immediately out of the Hebrew: And the Analytical Exposition of every Psalm. Fourth edition, diligently revised. By Francis Roberts. [G. p. 100.]

-Jupsalt92. 1679. John Patrick. Century of Select Psalms for the Use of the Charter House, 1679. -(1706 ed.); Expanded into the complete Psalter as, The Psalms of David in Metre, 1691, with the Tunes used in Parish Churches, 1694.

*-Jupsalt93. 1680. James Chamberlayne. A Sacred Poem on the Birth, Miracles, Death, Sepulture, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Most Holy Jesus. Also Eighteen of David's Psalms, Paraphrased; the Lamentations of Jeremiah; and Poems on Several Occasions. London. Copy in the Cambridge University Library. [H. ii. p. 80.]

*-Jupsalt94. 1682. Richard Goodridge. The Psalter or Psalms Paraphras'd in Verse. Completed ed., 1684. 3rd ed., 1635. [A. p. 34; G. p. 101; H. ii. p. 53 ; L. p. 44.] See also No. 60.

*-Jupsalt95. 1683. John Oldham. Psalm 137 in his Remains.

*-Jupsalt96. 1687. John Morris, Four versions in his A Collection of Miscellanies. (3rd ed., 1699.) [H. ii. p. 83.]

-Jupsalt97. 1688. Simon Ford. A New Version of the Psalms of David, in Metre, Smooth, plain and easie to the most ordinary capacities: by Simon Ford, D.D., &c. [A. p. 170 ; G. p. 103 ; H. ii. p. 92.]

*-Jupsalt98. 1689. William Vilant. Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, in two Parts. Edinburgh.

*-Jupsalt99. 1689. Charles Cotton. Psalm 8 in his Poems. [H. ii. p. 93; L. p. 54.]

*-Jupsalt100. 1691. Benjamin Keach, p. 610, i. Seventeen versions in his Spiritual Melody.

*-Jupsalt101. 1691. Robert Fleming. Several Psalms diversely rendered in his The Mirror of Divine Love Unvailed, in a Poetical Paraphrase of the High and Mysterious Song of Solomon; Whereunto is added a Miscellany of several other Poems, Sacred and Moral. By Robert Fleming, jun., V.D.M., 1691. [H. ii. p. 162.]

Jupsalt102. 1692. Richard Baxter, Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand., See p. 118, ii. [G. p. 105.]

*-Jupsalt103. 1694. Daniel Warner. A Selection from the Psalms, composed in two Parts. A revision of the Old Version.

*-Jupsalt104. 1694. John Mason. See p. 716, i.

-Jupsalt105. 1695. N. Tate and N. Brady. See New Version, p. 799, i., and Psalters, English. $ xm. (1698 dedition)

-Jupsalt105a. 1695. (Matthew Henry, Family Hymns (Psalm versions))

*-Jupsalt106. 1698. Luke Melbourne. The Psalms of David in English Metre. Translated from tlie Original, and suited to all the Tunes now sung in Churches. By Luke Mil bourne, a Presbyter of the Church of England. Dedicated to His Highness the Duke of Gloucester. London, printed for W. Rogers at the Sun, R. Clasell at the Peacock, and B. Tooke at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet Street. [G. p. 109.]

*-Jupsalt107. 1698. John Phillips. Daveidos, or A Specimen of some of David's Psalms in metre. This work is misdated 1798.

*-Jupsalt107a. (Henry Hunt, A Collection of Some Verses out of the Psalms of David suited to several occasions. Composed in two parts, cantus and bassus: being [the] common tunes to the Psalms in Metre, now used in parish-churches. To which is added, some instructions for singing of them. Collected for Mr. Henry Hunt, for the use of his scholars, and such as delight in psalmody, London 1698.

*-Jupsalt108. 1700. Joseph Stennett, A Version of Solomon's Song of Songs. Together with the XLVth Psalm.

-Jupsalt109. 1700. Samuel Wesley (q.v.) Six in his Pious Communicant; and others in his Life of Christ.