John Marckant

John Marckant or Markant (died in or before 1586) was an English cleric, known as one of the contributors to the Sternhold and Hopkins Metrical Psalter of 1562.^[1]

Life

Marckant was inducted vicar of Clacton-Magna on 31 August 1559, and was vicar of Shopland in Essex from 1563 to 1568.^[2]

Works

Marckant's contributions to the Psalter were the 118th, 131st, 132nd, and 135th Psalms. At first these were simply initialed 'M.,' and have been tentatively attributed to John Mardeley. The name is given in full as "Marckant" in 1565, and in later editions, for example that of 1606, is sometimes "Market". In the same way The Lamentation of a Sinner, later adapted by Reginald Heber, and The Humble Sute of a Sinner were both marked 'M.' in the 1562 Psalter.^[2]

Another attribution, by Philip Bliss, is a broadside ballad, Of Dice, Wyne, and Women, (London, by William Griffith), 1571. Three publications in the Stationers' Registers are assigned to Marckant: The Purgation of the Ryght Honourable Lord Wentworth concerning the Crime layd to his Charge, made the 9 Januarie 1558; A New Yeres Gift, intituled With Spede Retorne to God, and Verses to Diuerse Good Purposes, licensed to Thomas Purforte 3 Nov. 1580. None of these are now known, though the last is mentioned in William Herbert's edition of Joseph Ames's Typographical Antiquities.^[2]

Notes

1. Cooper, J. P. D. "Marckant, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18035. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Marckant, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Marckant, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.