The Whole Book of Psalmes
By: collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall. Set forth and alllowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons: and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth ...
Contributors: Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.; Hopkins, John. d. 1570.; Massachusetts Bible Society.
Publisher: Printed by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge
Published: 1637
Place of publication: Cambridge, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Liturgical language -- English.; Sacred vocal music.
Work titles: Bible. O.T. Psalms. Sternhold-Hopkins. 1637.
Description: This is the Psalter which Queen Elizabeth called a book of "Geneva jigs," and which the Earl of Rochester said would have made King David mad. It was used by the Established Church of England until 1698, and Bishop Jewel says it was a common thing for as many as six thousand persons to be found singing its Psalms at St. Paul's Cross in London.