Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. 1. OF METRICAL VERSIONS OF THE PSALMS, ROYALLY Privileged; AND FIRST OF ARCHBISHOP PARKER'S. --II. OF HENRY DOD'S VERSION. -- III. OF GEORGE WITHER'S VERSION.--IV. OF KING JAMES THE FIRST'S VERSION.--V. OF GEORGE SANDYS* VERSION.--VI. OF WILLIAM BARTON'S VERSION. -- VII. OF TATE AND BRADY'S VERSION. -- VIII. OF SIR RICHARD BLACKMOKE'S VERSION. I. I have said, that there are several Metrical Versions of the Psalms in our language, which have been published with the accompaniment of royal privilege, or with allowance to be used in Churches, besides what we call the Old and New Versions. Of these the first, and the most curious, and of which a complete account has hitherto been wanting, is the Version made by Dr." Parker, before he Strype, in his Life of Archbishop Parker, barely speaks of this Version: Sir John Hawkins, in his History of Music, Warton in his History of English Poetry; Dr. Lort, in his remarks upon what is said of Parker's Version in that History, Gent. Mag. Vol. li. p. 566; and Ritson, in his Bibliographia Poetica; may be also mentioned as having, in several, though not all respects, described this metrical Translation. 4 was advanced to the Primacy of all England, and published after that period. Some have doubted that this Version was b at any time published, and have considered it as a work printed only for private distribution. If this had been the case, there would hardly have been a notification, upon the* title of it, of a royal privilege, which was to be enjoyed FOR THE SPACE OF TEN YEARS: But the title makes this notification: " The whole Psalter translated into English metre, which containeth an hundred and fifty Psalms. Imprinted at London, by John Daye. Cum gratia et Privilegio Regice...
