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with the Gospel of St. John; in the Indian and English languages; Boston, in New England, by B. Green'. (See Thomas' Printing in America, i. p. 293.)—British Museum. 12o. PSALM XV. paraphrased in verse; by Lady Chudleigh; Lon

don, by B. Lintot; (published with "The Song of the three
children;" see above, p. 82).-Bodleian.

PSALMS CIII. CXXX. CXLVIII. paraphrased in verse; by S. C.
Cobb, A. M.; second edition; London, for E. Curll. -
Bodleian.

1710.

The PSALMS, in metre, allowed by authority of the Kirk of
Scotland; Edinburgh, by James Watson.-Lambeth; Dr.
Percy.

8o.

8o.

12o.

PSALMS CXLVIII. CXIV. CXXXVII. CXXXIX. paraphrased in verse; by the Rev. John Norris; fifth edition; London.

8°.

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The PSALTER, with titles and collects, &c. (by Christopher
Lord Hatton); 14th edition; London. - Bodleian.
The PSALMS, in metre; by King Jamesh; Edinburgh, by
James Watson.-Lambeth; Bodleian.

8o.

8o.

PSALM CXIV. in verse, by Dr. Isaac Watts. This was first published in The Spectator, in this year. (Holland).

1713.

The PSALMS, by Sternhold, &c.; with the tunes by J. Playford; twelfth edition; London.-British Museum. 80. The PSALMS; Scottish version; Edinburgh.-British Museum. 4o. PSALM XXIX. paraphrased in verse; London.-Brit. Museum. fol.

1714.

The PSALMS, in metre; by sir John Denham, knt.; London,

f Some copies bear, "by James "Green and J. Printer." This James Printer was an Indian native; who was educated at the English charity school at Cambridge, and afterwards was apprenticed to Samuel Green, a printer of that town; from which employment he obtained his surname. He became very useful in the printing of the se

cond edition of the New England Bible, in 1680-1685.

g These were reprinted in 1710: and again, in Nichols' Collection of Poems, 12o. 1781. See a specimen, with some animadversions, in Holland's Psalmists, ii. p. 132.

h Published in Watson's reprint of the Book of Common Prayer of 1637.

for J. Bowyer and others.-British Museum; Bodleian; Lambeth; Christ Church, Oxford; Balliol College; Chichester Cathedral; Cashel Library; Earl of Pembroke ; Lea Wilson h.

8o.

12o.

The Seven PENITENTIAL PSALMS, by bishop Fisher. No place,
no name [London?] (I have seen it. H. C.)
PSALM XCVII. in paraphrastic verse, by Mr. S.; p.185 of "Poems
and translations," by several hands, published by J. Old-
mixon; London, J. Pemberton.-Dr. Bliss.
PSALMS, HYMNS, and SPIRITUAL SONGS; by the Rev. Dan.
Burgess; London, for John Clarke .-Lambeth; Dr. Bliss;
Lea Wilson.

8°.

12o.

KING GEORGE I.

1715.

The whole Book of PSALMS, in metre; by J. Patrick, D.D.;
London, for John Churchill.-Lambeth.
The whole Book of PSALMS; with hymns, and all the tunes
composed, &c. by John Playford; thirteenth edition; Lon-
don, for the Company.-Lambeth; York Cathedral; Chi-
chester Cathedral.

1716.

12o.

8o.

The PSALMS; Scottish version; Edinburgh.-Brit. Museum. 12o.

1717.

The PSALMS, by Brady and Tatek; Tranquebar, in the office of the Danish Missionaries.-Christ Church, Oxford; Dr. Bliss. 8°.

1718.

PSALTERIUM AMERICANUM. The Book of PSALMS, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original [in blank lyric verse]; with illustrations, and an Appendix containing

h See a specimen, in Holland's Psalmists.

i See a specimen and notice of the author, in Holland's Psalmists, ii. p. 137.

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kThis edition is extremely rare. is probable that very few copies were brought to Europe. Probably the impression was struck off under the superintendence of the famed missionary

Bartholomew Ziegenbalg; who had recently paid a visit to England, and was warmly patronised by archbishop Wake, of Canterbury; to whom the copy in Ch. Ch. library formerly belonged. I have never met with a third. The typographical execution of the volume is very creditable to the Tranquebar press.

some other portions of Scripture'; Boston in New England, by S. Kneeland.-Museum; Bodleian; Lambeth; Dr. Bliss; Dr. Cotton.

Select PSALMS and HYMNS; for the use of St. James', Westminster, with proper tunes; London, by W. Pearson.Bodleian; Christ Church, Oxford.

A SONG of THANKSGIVING, or part of PSALM XCVIII. paraphrased; in "Poems amorous, moral, and divine;" London, Jonas Brown.-Bodleian; Dr. Bliss.

1719.

The PSALMS of DAVID; imitated in the language of the New TESTAMENT, by Isaac Watts, D.D.m; London, for J. Clarke and others.-Lambeth.

The Book of PSALMS; made fit for the closet; with titles to each Psalm; (by Philip Bedingfield;) London, for R. Wilkin.-Bodleian; Dr. Bliss.

The PSALMS, by several hands; (printed in "The Singing-mas

1 As this volume is far from being common, I subjoin the following description of it. A specimen of the translation is given in the Appendix.

After the title follows an Introduction of 35 pages, on the Book of Psalms generally, and on this particular translation of them; asserting its fidelity to the Hebrew, justifying the use of blank verse, and commending the accompanying illustrations:

"An

admonition concerning the "tunes," I page: the Psalms, p. 1– 410: Appendix, containing other portions of Scripture versified, p. 411– 426. At the end of the copy in my possession are bound up "Proposals "for the publication of the work by "subscription," 7 pages.

The Psalms are divided into five books; the second beginning with Ps. 42; the third, with Ps. 73; the fourth, with Ps. 90; the fifth, with Ps. 107. Each psalm is followed by illustrations; in which the Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, Latin Vulgate, Spanish, and Italian versions, the Christian Fathers, the Jewish Rabbis, and a variety of

12o.

8o.

8°.

12o.

12o.

modern commentators are constantly quoted.

The forty-first verse of Psalm 18 has been accidentally omitted by the printer: a fly-leaf in my copy gives, in a contemporary hand, the following translation of it:

"They made a grievous cry, but "then a Saviour there was none : "To the Eternal God, but He || did "not then answer them. "

Upon the latter part of verse 43 of the same Psalm, namely, the words, "the people whom I have not known]] "shall be my servants now. ||" there is this note: " Hope for Americans! "Our Saviour, as man, had seen and "known Asians, Africans, Euro

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peans." The name of the translator [Cotton Mather?] no where appears throughout the book.

P. S. A notice and specimen of this version occur in Holland's Psalmists of Britain.

m This is the first edition of Dr. Watts' Psalms: it has been reprinted continually. See a notice in Holland's Psalmists.

ter's Guide;") by Wm. Turner, of Ewelme, Oxfordshire,
singing-master; London.-Chichester Cathedral.
The PSALMS; by Brady and Tate; Dublin, by Geo. Grierson.
-Lea Wilson.

PSALM XLII. in metre; by Bishop Patrick; London, by W.
Mears.-Bodleian.

1720.

"HYMNS and SPIRITUAL SONGS," containing versions of upwards of twenty PSALMS; by Simon Browne"; London. -See Holland's Psalmists of Britain, ii. p. 172.

1721.

The PSALMS; a new version in metre, by Sir Richard Black-
more, Knight, M.D.; fitted to the tunes used in churches;
London, by J. March, for the Company.-Brit. Museum;
Lambeth; Christ Church, Oxford; Chichester Cathedral;
Dr. Bliss.

1722.

The PSALMS, by Sternhold, &c.; with the tunes by John Play-
ford. Sixteenth edition; London.-British Museum.
A paraphrase, (in metre,) on some Select PSALMS; by the Rev.
Richard Daniel; Dublin, by Geo. Grierson-Dr. Cotton.
The same; London, for Bernard Lintot P.-British Museum ;
Bodleian; Lambeth; Sion College; Chichester Cathedral;
Lea Wilson.

"The DEVOUT SOUL;" containing metrical versions of eighteen
Psalms; by Thomas Coney, D. D.; London, R. Wilkin.-
Bodleian.

No edition.

1723.

n See an account of the singular hallucination of mind, to which this poor man was subject, in the Adventurer, No. 88; and in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1762, p. 453.

o In a letter preserved in the Bodleian Library (MSS. Ballard, vol. xi.) Sir Richard affirms that his translation had been recommended to the King by the two Archbishops, and the Bishops of London, Winchester, Ely, Hereford, Worcester, Rochester, Oxford, and nine others. It does not ap

12o.

32°.

8o.

12o.

8°.

8o.

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8o.

pear that all these recommendations availed to secure for it any lasting degree of public favour.

P Mr. Daniel was Archdeacon of Killaloe, when the first of these two editions was printed; and became Dean of Armagh before the second appeared. He published here fifteen Psalms, out of fifty which he had selected. Five years afterwards he published a Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms which see below.

1724.

The PSALMS, by Sternhold; with the tunes, by J. Playford.
Seventeenth edition; London.-British Museum.
The PSALMS, in metre, by John Patrick, D. D.; with the
tunes. Seventh edition; London, for D. Brown and others.
-Bodleian; Duke of Sussex; Dr. Bliss; Lea Wilson.

1725.

The PSALMS, HYMNS, &c., in metre; for the use of the Saints in New England. Fifteenth edition; London, by J. H., for J. Osborn.-Lea Wilson.

8°.

89.

12o.

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PSALMS CIV. and cvII. paraphrased in metre; by the Rev. Walter Harte; London, by B. Lintot.-British Museum; Bodleian. (See a specimen in Holland's Psalmists, ii. p. 219.) 8o. The ROYAL PENITENT; a metrical paraphrase on the Seven Penitential PSALMS; by the Rev. Richd. Daniel; London, for B. Lintott 9.-Lea Wilson.

PSALMS VIII. XXIV. XXIX. XLVI. XC. CXXXIX. and CXLIV. paraphrased in verse; by Christopher Pitt, A. M.; London, for B. Lintott.-Dr. Cotton.

KING GEORGE II.

1728.

The PSALMS; by Brady and Tate'; London, for the Company.

8o.

8o.

12°.

-Lambeth.

No edition.

1729.

1730.

PSALM CXIX. paraphrased in verse; by George Atwood, B. D.,
Archdeacon of Taunton; London, for W. Innys.—British
Museum; Lambeth; Dr. Bliss.

1731.

A century of Select PSALMS, &c., in metre; by John Patrick,

q See note at the year 1722, above.

I No later editions of this version appear to require particular notice.

4o.

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