cuted as the old one. He therefore
ventured in a middle way, as he himself in one of his letters
expresses it, without affectation of words, and endeavouring to leave
them not disfigured in the sense. This version soon after was
published with this title;

The Psalms of David from the New Translation of the Bible, turned into
Metre, to be sung after the old tunes used in churches, Lond. 1651, in
12mo.

There is nothing more ridiculous than this notion of the vulgar of not
parting with their old versions of the psalms, as if there were a
merit in singing hymns of nonsense. Tate and Brady's version is by far
the most elegant, and best calculated to inspire devotion, because the
language and poetry are sometimes elevated and sublime; and yet for
one church which uses this version, twenty are content with that of
Sternhold and Hopkins, the language and poetry of which, as Pope says
of Ogilvy's Virgil, are beneath criticism.--

After episcopacy was silenced by the Long Parliament, he resided in
the house of Sir Richard Hobbart (who had married his sister) at
Langley in Bucks. He was reinstated in his See by King Charles II. and
was much esteemed by the virtuous part of his neighbours, and had the
blessings of the poor and distressed, a character which reflects the
highest honour upon him.

Whether from a desire of extending his beneficence, or instigated by
the restless ambition peculiar to the priesthood, he sollicited, but
in vain, a higher preferment, and suffered his resentment to betray
him into measures not consistent with his episcopal character. He died
on the first day of October 1669[2], and was buried on the south side
of the choir, near the communion table, belonging to the cathedral
church in Chichester. Soon after there was a monument put over his
grave, with an inscription, in which it is said he was,

Antiqua, eaque regia Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi,
prosapia oriundus,

That he was,

Natalium Splendore illustris, pietate, Doctrina, et virtutibus
illustrior, &c.

This monument was erected at the charge of his widow, Anne daughter of
Sir William Russel of Strensham in Worcestershire, knight and baronet.

Our author's works, besides the version of the Psalms already
mentioned, are as follows;

A Deep Groan fetched at the Funeral of the incomparable and glorious
Monarch King Charles I. printed 1649.

Poems, Elegies, Paradoxe