STRYPE, JOHN English historian and biographer, was born in Houndsditch, London, on Nov. 1, 1643. He was the son of John Strype, or van Stryp, a member of a Flemish family settled in Strype's Yard in Petticoat Lane, as a merchant and silk throwster. The younger John was educated at St. Paul's School, and at Jesus college, and Catherine Hall, Cambridge. In 1670 he became perpetual curate of Theydon Bois, Essex, and subsequently received the curacy of Leyton and a sinecure living in Sussex. He was lecturer at Hackney from 1689 till 1724. He died at Hackney on Dec. 11, 1737. He was buried in the church at Leyton.
The most important of Strype's works are the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694 (ed. for the Eccl. Hist. Soc., in 5 vols., Oxford, 1848-1854 ; and in 2 vols. with notes by P. E. Barnes, London, 1853) ; Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith (1698) ; Life and Acts of John Aylmer, Lord Bishop of London (I 7o1) ; Life of the learned Sir John Cheke, with his Treatise on Superstition (1705) ; Annals of the Reformation in England (4 vols.;
vol. i. 1709 [reprinted 5725], vol. ii. 1725, vol. iii. 1728, vol. iv. 1731; 2nd ed., 4 vols.; 3rd ed., 1736-1738, 4 vols.) ; Life and Acts of Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (171o), of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (I7II), and of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1718) ; An Accurate Edition of Stow's Survey of London (1720, a valuable edition of Stow, although its interference with the original text is a method of editing which can scarcely be reckoned fair to the original author; and Ecclesiastical Memorials (3 vols., 1721 ; 3 vols., 1733). His Historical and Bio graphical Works were reprinted in 59 vols. at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, between 1812 (Cranmer) and 1824 (Annals).