William Knapp
KNAPP, William. b. Wareham, Dorset, 1698; d. Poole, Dorset, 1768 (buried 26 September). Knapp was one of the large numbers of artisan composers who were active in the 18th century before the standardisation of hymn and psalm tunes in the Victorian era. A glover by trade, he was also parish clerk at St James in Poole where George Savage was the sexton. Neither man was universally popular, and in 1742 the following lines appeared in the London Magazine contributed by H. Price, presumably to be sung to one of Knapp’s Common Metre tunes:
From pounce and paper, ink and pen,
Save me O Lord I pray;
From Pope and Swift and such like men,
And Cibber’s annual lay;
From doctor’s bills and lawyers...
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