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JOHN STRYPE (1643-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1046 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:STRYPE (1643-1737)  , See also:English historian and biographer, was See also:born in Houndsditch, See also:London, on the 1st of See also:November 1643 . He was the son of See also:John See also:Strype, or See also:van Stryp, a member of a See also:Brabant See also:family who, to See also:escape religious persecution, settled in London, in a See also:place afterwards known as Strype's Yard in See also:Petticoat See also:Lane, as a See also:merchant and See also:silk throwster . The younger John was educated at St See also:Paul's School, and on the 5th of See also:July 1662 entered Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge; thence he proceeded to See also:Catherine See also:Hall, where he graduated B.A. in 1665 and M.A. in .1669 . On the 14th of July of the latter See also:year he became perpetual See also:curate of Theydon Bois, See also:Essex, and a few months afterwards curate and lecturer of See also:Leyton in the same See also:county . He was never instituted or inducted to the living of Leyton, but in 1674 he was licensed by the See also:bishop of London to preach and expound the word of See also:God, and to perform the full See also:office of See also:priest and curate while it was vacant, and until his See also:death he received the profits of it . Its 1711 he obtained from See also:Archbishop See also:Tenison the See also:sinecure of See also:West Tarring, See also:Sussex, and he discharged the duties of lecturer at See also:Hackney from 1689 till 1724 . At the latter place he spent his last years with a married granddaughter, the wife of a surgeon, See also:Thomas See also:Harris, dying there on the rrth of See also:December 1737, at the See also:age of ninety-four . He was buried in the See also:church at Leyton . Through his friendship with See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hicks Strype obtained See also:access to the papers of Sir See also:Michael Hicks, secretary to See also:Lord See also:Burghley, from which he made extensive transcripts; he also carried on an extensive See also:correspondence with Archbishop See also:Wake and Bishops See also:Burnet, See also:Atterbury and See also:Nicholson . The materials thus obtained formed the basis of his See also:historical and See also:biographical See also:works, which relate chiefly to the See also:period of the See also:Reformation . The greater portions of his See also:original materials have been preserved, and are included in the See also:Lansdowne See also:manuscripts in the See also:British Museum . His works can scarcely be entitled original compositions, his labour having consisted chiefly in the arrangement of his materials, but on this very See also:account they are of considerable value as convenient books of reference, easier of access and almost as trustworthy as the original documents .

The most important of Strype's works are the Memorials of Thomas See also:

Cranmer, Archbishop of See also:Canterbury, 1694 (ed. for the Eccl . Hist . See also:Soc., in 3 vols., See also:Oxford, 1848-1854; and in 2 vols. with notes by P . E . See also:Barnes, London, 1853) ; See also:Life of the learned Sir Thomas See also:Smith (1698) ; Life and Acts of John See also:Aylmer, Lord Bishop of London (1701) ; Life of the learned Sir John See also:Cheke, with his See also:Treatise on Superstition (1705) ; See also:Annals of the Reformation in See also:England (4 vols . ; vol. i . 1709 [reprinted 1725], vol. ii . 1725, vol. iii . 1728, vol. iv . 1731; 2nd ed., 1735,4 vols . ; 3rd ed., 1736-1738, 4 vols.) ; Life and Acts of See also:Edmund See also:Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (1710), of See also:Matthew See also:Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1711), and of John See also:Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1718) ; An Accurate Edition of See also:Stow's Survey of London (1720), a valuable edition of Stow, although its interference with the original See also:text is a method of editing which can scarcely be reckoned See also:fair to the original author; and Ecclesiastical Memorials (3 vols., 1721; 3 vols., 1733) . His Historical and Biographical Works were reprinted in 19 vols. at the See also:Clarendon See also:Press, Oxford, between 1812 (Cranmer) and 1824 (Annals) .

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general See also:index by R . F . Laurence in 2 vols. was added in 1828 . Strype also published, besides a number of single sermons, an edition of John See also:Lightfoot's Works (1684); and in 1700 Some genuine Remains of John Lightfoot . . . with a large See also:preface concerning the author .

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