238 THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
in Strype’s Court, Petticoat Lane, as is generally believed, although the 
late Mr. A. P. Wire, in the Essex Review, vol. viii., October, 1899, says 
Houndsditch, but quotes no authority for the statement. Educated at 
St. Paul’s School, Strype proceeded to Jesus College, Cambridge, where 
he matriculated on July 5, 1662; and subsequently migrating to St. Cather- 
ine’s Hall, he graduated B.A. in 1665 and M.A. 1669, afterwards being also 
incorporated M.A. at Oxford. Entering the church he was appointed 
to the perpetual curacy of Theydon Bois in July 1669 and in November of 
the same year, at the invitation of the inhabitants, he became minister of 
Leyton, and continued so to serve for no less than 68 years, until his death 
in 1737. For a portion of this time he also held the sinecure vicarage of 
West Tarring in Sussex, and was lecturer of Hackney until 1724. Bowed 
with the weight of increasing age and infirmity, the last few years of his 
life were spent in the home of his grand-daughter, Susan, at Hackney, where 
he died on December 11, 1737, aged 94 years I month and 10 days, and was 
buried in Leyton Church, where the best years of his life had been spent and 
where he had faithfully ministered so long. His literary activity was. 
enormous, for in addition to sermons, he wrote and published many weighty 
volumes, the material for which he collected with infinite labour and pains. 
The most important of his works are the lives of three Archbishops of Canter- 
bury, Thomas Cranmer, Matthew Parker and John Whitgift, and his 
Ecclesiastical Memorials and Annals of the Reformaiion, the former 
in three folio volumes and the latter in four; but he is perhaps most widely 
known as the continuator of Stow’s Survey of London, wherein he gives. 
a very full account of Leyton Church. 
Before leaving the church our President thanked Mr. Glass in the name 
of the Club for his kindly welcome. 
On the return walk to the Town Hall, some of the party took the opportun- 
ity to inspect the Church House, formerly the vicarage, a small unpretentious 
Georgian building, where John Strype, the historian, resided during his long. 
ministry of the parish, which lasted for sixty-eight years from 1669 onwards. 
At the Town Hall the party was received and welcomed by the Chair- 
man of the Urban District Council (Mr. Councillor F.J. Cobb, J.P.) and the 
chairman of the Libraries Committee (Mr. Councillor A. J. Allanson). The 
two members of Parliament for Leyton, Mr. E. E. Alexander, member for 
Leyton (East), and Mr. J. D. Cassels, K.C., member for Leyton (West) 
were also present with the party. In the Council Chamber an exhibition 
of old Essex prints had been arranged for the benefit of the visitors by Mr. 
Moon and his assistant, and these attracted much interested attention. 
Afternoon tea was kindly provided for the party in the Councillors’ Room. 
at the Town Hall at 5 o’clock, after which some further time was enjoyably 
spent in inspecting the print exhibition. 
The President expressed the thanks of the party to all who had con- 
tributed to the magnificent reception which had been accorded to the Club: 
that afternoon, both at the Parish Church and at the Town Hall, and for the 
generous hospitality shown to the party; and he referred especially to Mr. 
Moon, upon whom the brunt of the work in organising such a successful 
meeting and exhibition had fallen. Mr. Moon replied suitably, and the 
visitors then took leave. 
