Includes letters on ecclesiastical affairs in the mid- and late-sixteenth century, transcripts of Edwardian and Elizabethan documents and copies of material relating the the diocese of Chester and Lincoln.
John Strype: Correspondence
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- ReferenceGB 12 MS Add.1-10
- Dates of Creation1643-1737
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- Language of MaterialEnglish .
- Physical Description10 volume(s) 10 volumes paper paper
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Acquisition Information
Belonged to Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts. Knight may have obtained some of them from Strype with a view to completing his projected memoir of the historian. From Knight they descended to John Percy Baumgartner, who presented them to the Library in 1859.
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