The Bay Psalm Book

<body><msnavigation dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><msnavigation valign="top"> <h1 align="center"><small><font face="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">The Bay Psalm Book:</font></small></h1> <h2 align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><small>The Whole Booke of Psalmes </small><br> <small>Faithfully Translated into English Meter. </small></font></h2> <p align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring <br> not only the lawfullness, but also the necessity<br> of the heavenly ordinance of singing Scripture psalmes<br> in the churches of God.</font> </p> <p align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Cambridge, Mass. Stephen Day<br> Imprinted 1640<br> </font> <img border="0" src="../images/narule.gif" width="300" height="10"></p> <p>The Bay Psalm Book is a very important piece of history. It was both the first book printed in the Colonies and it was also the first book entirely written in the Colonies. When one considers the difficulties of mere existence during this time, a mere 20 years after the first arrivals in Plymouth in 1620, the magnitude of the effort and accomplishment is even more impressive. The first printing press in New England was purchased and imported specifically to print this book. </p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <p><a href="../library/baypsalm.htm">The Bay Psalm Book</a><br> <a href="baypsalm_index.htm">Index of Psalms from the Bay Psalm Book<br> </a>   </td></tr></table><msnavigation border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="../images/narule.gif" width="300" height="10"> <small><br> Page Copyright 2001, <a target="_parent" href="/cgmusic.com/">Music for the Church of God</font></a><br> e-mail us at:<a href="mailto:webmaster@cgmusic.com"> webmaster@cgmusic.com</a><br> Page last modified on: 07/29/2004</font> <img src="../../cgmusic/home.asp" alt="" border="0" WIDTH="0" HEIGHT="0" lowsrc="../../cgmusic/images/pixel.gif"> </small></p> </td></tr></table></body>