Charles Mackay, the well known writer, was born at Perth, 1814, and died Dec. 24, 1889.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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DUNDEE first appeared in the 1615 edition of the Scottish Psalter published in Edinburgh by Andro Hart. Called a "French" tune (thus it also goes by the name of FRENCH), DUNDEE was one of that hymnal's twelve "common tunes"; that is, it was not associated with a specific psalm. In the Psalter Hymnal…