1736 BOOK of PSALMS antique in ENGLISH original binding 18th CENTURY PROVENANCE

Book of Psalms.

The Whole Book of Psalms:

Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others...,


London: printed by John Baskett for the Company of Stationers; 1736


title with repaired short closed tear to fore-edge, verso of front free endpaper bearing the signature of James Rouquet and also that of Jane Rouquet dated 1788,

all edges gilt, 

Original gilt decorated dark brown morocco,

worn at head of spine, extremities rubbed,

paper label to upper board with manuscript note 'James Rouquet in charge of John Wesley's School, Kingswood'


 Size 3 by 5 1/4 inches

Text in English

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Rouquet, James (1730-1776)
Anglican clergyman of Huguenot ancestry. He came under the influence of George Whitefield while a pupil at Merchant Taylors'. He graduated from St.John's College, Oxford. John Wesley appointed him as a master at Kingswood School, 1751-54(?). Despite Wesley's hopes of his becoming an itinerant, he chose parish work, but retained his love for the spirituality of Methodism and introduced Captain Webb to the Bristol Methodists. He devoted much of his time to improving prison conditions in Bristol. Theologically he occupied the middle ground between Arminianism and Calvinism. The Countess of Huntingdon counted him an intimate friend, but he also remained a close confidant of John Wesley who, when he thought he was dying in 1768, bequeathed all his manuscripts to him. His death was mourned by clergy both regular and irregular, Lady Huntingdon's followers, Baptist Dissenters, Huguenots and Methodists, together with the sick and poor of Bristol.
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