RAVENSCROFT, Thomas

Ravenscroft is best known by his Booke of Psalmes, a work of much importance, containing contributions by Tallis, Dowland, Morley, Farnaby, Tomkins, Pearson, Parsons, Hooper, Kirbye, Allison, Farmer, Bennet, Milton, Cranford, Harrison, and the editor. It has been drawn upon by nearly every succeeding compiler of psalmody, and is now a somewhat rare work. It is worthy of notice that his Pammelia is the earliest collection of rounds and canons published in Britain.