Looking at the HTI, there appear to be three instances, all early 19th c. Scottish - starting with A Selection of Sacred Music , Vol. 4, by James Steven of Glasgow. This is dated to [1801-17] (but... more
Despite the three instances of CLUPTL in HTI being Scottish, I doubt that the paraphrasing was done in Scotland. All that we can be sure of, meantime, is that the verse dates from before 1810, the... more