Janus: Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.5996	Cambridge University Tory True Blue Club: Minutes
MS Add.5997	Corporation of the Bedford Level: Correspondence and Papers
MS Add.5998	Transcript of lute music from MS Dd.2.11 in hand of W.C. Denis-Browne
MS Add.59a	John Strype: Compositions in prose and verse, 'The Thankful Samaritan' (sermon on Luke xvii. 16), epitaph for James Bonnell
MS Add.59b	Peter Newcome: Particulars concerning D. Dolben, Bishop of Bangor, sent to Strype
MS Add.59c	Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype
MS Add.6001	Daniel Barba of Verona: six musical compositions
MS Add.6002	Italian Arias
MS Add.6003	W. B. Molique: quartet for pianoforte, violino alto and violincello composed for and dedicated to A. G. Kurtz Esq., Op. 71
MS Add.6004	Cesare Livizzano: Diploma
MS Add.6007	Demetrius Moschus: Translation of Philostratus' 'Imagines'
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Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype

Title	Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.59c
Creator	Knight, Samuel (? 1678-1746)
Covering Dates	1740 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 folder; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Samuel Knight (? 1678-1746), Canon of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts was born in London and educated at St Paul's School and Trinty College, Cambridge. He graduated BA during the year 1702-3, MA in 1706, and DD in 1717, and was later incorporated at Oxford in 1740. He was ordained priest in 1704 and held a number of church positions in East Anglia. He was a keen collector of manuscripts and antiquary and counted amongst his acquaintances many of the foremost antiquarian scholars of the age, including William Cole, Edmund Gibson, Thomas Tanner, White Kennett and Thomas Baker. He died in 1746.

Autograph.

From Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts (d. 1746), the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1861.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype, MS Add.59c

Further information

This volume is bound together with MS Add.59 a & MS Add.59 b

Microfilm available

Index Terms

Strype, John (1643-1737) ecclesiastical historian

Knight, Samuel (? 1678-1746) Church of England clergyman and antiquary

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