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STRYPE, JOHN (1643-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1046 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STRYPE, See also:JOHN (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 John 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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