John Strype: English Reformation

John Strype,(strīp), 1643–1737.

John was an English ecclesiastical historian and biographer, a man who lived in the post-Restoration period, the tumultuous days of the Stuart kings, e.g. notably James 11, and the period following the Glorious Revolution with the ascendancy of the Dutch King, William 111.

John was a descendent of French Huguenots who fled the anti-Reformation policies of the villainous French nation.

John Strype was a graduate of Cambridge. He took holy orders. Much of his early life was spent in collecting old charters, letters, and various documents, studying mostly the the Tudor period and English Reformation. His archival researches make Strype a "must-read" for students of classical Anglicanism.

As an Anglican, John used the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

Later, John used his extensive archival researches for his valuable works. These include the Annals of the Reformation (2 parts, 1708–9) and biographies of Thomas Cranmer (2 parts, 1694), John Aylmer (1701), Sir John Cheke (1705), (1710), Edmund Grindal Matthew Parker (1711), and John Whitgift (2 parts, 1717–18.

Historiography--the secondary literature--for the English Reformation repeatedly cites John Strype's labours. We have read the works on Thomas Cranmer and portions on Elizabeth 1's first Cantaur, Matthew Parker.

You can find these by a search at www.books.google.com.