SOME of the notes, on which the following pages are founded,
were discussed with Dean Stanley in 1878. A list of his-
torical instances of the use of the Psalms, made by the Dean
himself, was sent to me in 1895 by the Right Rev. H. H.
Montgomery, then Bishop of Tasmania. To it I am indebted
for the reference (page 271), to the reopening of the Cathedral
at Moscow, after the French invasion of 1812.
Since my collection of notes was begun, the ground has
been partly occupied by the Rev. John Ker, D.D. (1886),
and the Rev. Charles L. Marson (1895). But Dr. Ker's book
was unfinished, and both he and Mr. Marson followed a
method of treatment different from that which is adopted in
the following pages.
In Appendix A will be found a general list of the principal
authorities. Appendix B arranges the historical instances,
which in the text are grouped, more or less, in order of time,
under the particular Psalms that are quoted. The Index
contains, in addition to the ordinary matter, references to
the books from which the historical instances are derived.
For assistance in the preparation of Appendix A, and for
the Index, I am indebted to Mr. G. H. Holden, Assistant
Librarian of All Souls' College, Oxford, and to Mr. C. Nolan
Ferrall. To Mr. Holden I owe Appendix B.
ROWLAND E. PROTHERO.