William Kethe

KETHE, William. b. probably in the east of Scotland,, date unknown; d. Child Okeford, Dorset, before 6 June 1594. He is first heard of in the reign of Edward VI (1547-53) as a militant Protestant, author of poems attacking the Roman Catholic church. Unsurprisingly, therefore, he went into exile during the reign of Mary Tudor (1553-58), first at Frankfurt and then at Geneva, where he was closely associated with John Knox. He contributed 25 metrical psalms to the 1561 edition of The Forme of Prayers and Ministration of the Sacraments &c., all of which were included in the Scottish Psalter of 1564 (27, 36, 47, 54, 58, 62, 70, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 100, 101, 104, 107, 111, 112, 113, 122, 125,...