The New Version psalms on this web site have been transcribed from a book whose title page reads:
A
NEW VERSION
OF THE
PSALMS OF DAVID
Fitted to the
TUNES USED IN CHURCHES
BY
N. BRADY, D.D and N. TATE, Esq.
Stereotype edition
London:
Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan,
Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
Sold b Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,
Paternoster-Row.
1821.
This psalter was first published in England in 1696. It was the work of two men, Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady.
Tate was poet laureate of England, as well as being a playwright and an adapter of other's plays. Brady was an Anglican clergyman, poet and author.
This version contains many more long metre renditions than the Old Version, and also includes some ten psalms in an 8,8,8 metre not found in the Old Version or the Scottish Psalter. This additonal metre, plus some 37 long metre renditions provide this version an excellent variety of metres and render it somewhat less monotonous than earlier psalters with their overwhelming majority of common metre settings.