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Bay Psalm Book
work by Ravenscroft
Also known as: “The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre”, “Whole Booke of Psalms”
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- The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre
Bay Psalm Book, (1640), perhaps the oldest book now in existence that was published in British North America. It was prepared by Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a press set up by Stephen Day, it included a dissertation on the lawfulness and necessity of singing psalms in church.