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
This material is held atCambridge University Library
- Reference
- GB 12 MS Add.1-10
- Dates of Creation
- 1643-1737
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English .
- Physical Description
- 10 volume(s) 10 volumes paper paper
Scope and Content
Access Information
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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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