The point of EW
's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place.
Probably by June 1549: The first collection of nineteen psalms translated...
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Probably by June 1549
The first collection of nineteen psalms translated into English verse was published by Thomas Sternhold
; later editions, after Sternhold's death (in August this year), added a few more psalms translated by John Hopkins
.
1562: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer first...
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1562
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer first appeared with Sternhold
and Hopkins
's English verse psalms as an integral part of it.
By 1640: About 300 editions of Sternhold and Hopkins's...
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By 1640
About 300 editions of Sternhold
and Hopkins
's English verse psalms had been published.
1696: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady issued their...
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1696
Nahum Tate
and Nicholas Brady
issued their New Version of the Psalms of David, which gradually replaced the metrical psalms of Sternhold
and Hopkins
.