The earliest known examples are single chants, dating from the late 16th century, written by Thomas Tallis and his contemporaries, so it seems likely that Anglican chant was devised by them to provide musical settings for the English-language version of the psalter translated by Coverdale, as published in the then new Book of Common Prayer.
After his appointment to Aberdare, a town where Dissenters were strong, Jenkins organised choral services with psalms being sung to Anglican chants and the canticles to Gregorian chants.
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He also edited and compiled the "Southwell Psalter", a setting of each of the 150 Psalms to Anglican chant, which is still used at both Southwell and New College, Oxford.