Lewis, John, 1675-1747 (Personal Name)

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The clergy of the Church of England vindicated, 1710: t.p. (John Lewis)

LC in RLIN, 6/10/85 (hdg.: Lewis, John, 1675-1747)

Wikipedia, viewed on December 23, 2013 (John Lewis (29 August 1675 - 16 January 1747) was an English clergyman and antiquary)

Bible. New Testament. English (Middle English). Wycliffe (Lewis). 1731. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ, MDCCXXXI, 1731: title page (John Lewis, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Malton, and minister of Mergate) second group, page iv (J. Lewis)

Lewis, John, 1675-1747. A complete history of the several translations of the Holy Bible, and New Testament, into English, MDCCXXXIX, 1739: title page (John Lewis, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Malton, and minister of Mergate in Kent)

Oxford dictionary of national biography, 11 September 2015 (Lewis, John (1675-1747), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; born in the parish of St Nicholas, Bristol, on 29 August 1675; he; Exeter College, Oxford, BA on 14 October 1697; shortly afterwards, ordained deacon; curate, then rector of the parish of Acrise, Kent; in 1705, presented to vicarage of St John the Baptist, Margate; instituted to vicarage of Minster on 10 March 1709; MA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1712; mastership of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury; extensive antiquarian research on the history of the English Bible and liturgy; biographies of Wyclif (1720), Pecock (1744), and Fisher (eventually published in 1855); an edition of Roper's Life and Death of Sir Thomas More (1731); compilations were accompanied by editions of appropriate documentary material; the high point of Lewis's career as an editor was the publication by subscription of Wyclif's translation of the New Testament (1731); for the introduction to his edition, Lewis composed a substantial history of the translation of the Bible into English, which he revised and brought up to date in a separately published second edition, A complete history of the several translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament into English (1739); interests in the history of printing and in the antiquities of Kent; The Life of Wyllyam Caxton (1737); The History and Antiquities, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of the Isle of Tenet (1723; second edition 1736); The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Church of Favresham (1727); shorter studies of the ancient ports of Kent; wrote a succession of works of practical and controversial divinity; the most successful of these was The Church Catechism Explain'd (1700); unpublished autobiography; died in Minster on 16 January 1747 and was buried four days later, in the church at Minster)