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gregational Hymn Book,&quot; are all slightly altered and reduced to about one half their original length, except No. 138, their rendering of Psalm xciii., which is given in full, and it is shown under Telesphorus that the first known rendering into English verse of the ancient hymn

&quot; To God be glory, peace on earth,&quot; No. 445,

is found in &quot; Tate and Brady s Appendix,&quot; 1708. It is not known which Psalms are by Tate and which by Brady.

��NICHOLAS BEADY, D.D.

16591726.

BEADY, the co-worker with Tate, was the son of an officer in the Royalist army, and was born at Brandon, a town in Ireland. He studied at Westminster school, and at Christ Church College, Oxford, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, whence he subsequently received his degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was chaplain to a bishop, and prebend of the cathedral of Cork. As a zealous partizan of the Prince of Orange, he saved his native place, Brandon, several times from the destruction threatened by King James ; and on the accession of William and Mary, he was sent to London with a petition claiming redress of grievances. During his stay, he became minister of the Church of St. Catherine Cree, and lecturer of St. Michael s, Wood- street. Afterwards he became chaplain to the King, and received other appointments.

But being like Tate, his companion in labour, a bad economist, he found it necessary to commence a school at Eichmond, Surrey. Here in one of the pleasant retreats of that charming neighbour hood, where he held a living, he made a translation of the Psalms. He published several volumes of his sermons, and some smaller works ; and, in the year of his death, a &quot; Transla tion of the .ZEneid of Virgil,&quot; a work now little known. His

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