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John Hopkins (1520/21 - 1570)

Clergyman and co-author with Thomas Sternhold of metrical Psalms widely used in Renaissance England Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/13748 Relationships: John Hopkins was a worked with Thomas Sternhold (1500-1549)

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The whole Booke of Psalms collected into English Metre, by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apt Notes to sing them with all, &c. Fol. London, by John Day cum gratia & privilegio RegiƦ Majestatis, Anno 1580. This is the first I have seen bound up with the Prayer-Book or Bible; it hath contents to each Psalm.