2I WILLIAM KKAPP. 



Bridport, Litchet, Poole, Morden, Sturminster, Winterbourne, 

 Weymouth, Wareharn, &c. The latter tune seems to be the 

 only one that is on the way to deathless fame. It is a sweet 

 old long metre tune, and is to be found in most hymn books. 



William Knapp owes his chief renown to this tune, though he 

 is undoubtedly worthy of a high place amongst the short roll of 

 early church music masters. I possess an eighth edition of his 

 principal work, published in 1770, after his death; in which the 

 owner has written: "John Wright, his anthem book, 1823," 

 which shows that the book was in use for at least 85 years in 

 our churches. There are twelve anthems in it, besides the 

 hymn and Psalm tunes, written mostly for various church 

 festivals. One of special interest is that for the 4th of June 

 (Eton may be jealous), but this is a commemoration of the 

 burning of the town of Blandford in 1731. It is taken out of 

 the 1 8th Psalm : " In my trouble I called upon the Lord." In 

 both books the air must be read in the third, or tenor, line. 



