[426] Perfect Occurrences, June 22nd, 1644.
[427] Baillie, ii. 149.
[428] Hanbury's Memorials, ii. 105, 111.
[429] The omission of singing in public worship was continued in the Baptist church at Maze Pond, Southwark, until the year 1733.—Ivimey's Hist. of Baptists, Sup., 432.
[430] Sternhold's version was first published in 1548 or 1549, and was dedicated to King Edward VI. Hopkins' additions appear in 1551.
The following may be mentioned as of a Puritan character:—
Dod's Psalms of David; with a Public Thanksgiving on the Fifth of November, composed into Easie Meter, a Song meete for Young and Old. 1620.
Psalms of David, by George Wither, 1632, printed in the Netherlands; dedicated to the Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
The Psalms, in prose and metre, by H. A., Amsterdam, 1612. H. A. means Henry Ainsworth, the Nonconformist.
For a list of versions, see Lownde's Bibliographers' Manual (Bohn's edit.)