- Sof Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury’ (with appendix), 2 pts. fol. 1694. Another edit., 3 vols. 8vo, Oxford, 1848–1854, issued under the auspices of the Ecclesiastical History Society, was severely criticised by Samuel Roffey Maitland [q. v.] in the ‘British Magazine’ for 1848. Of other editions one, with notes by P. E. Barnes, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1853, may be mentioned.
- ‘The Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith,’ 8vo, 1698.
- ‘Historical Collections of the Life and Acts of John Aylmer, Lord Bishop of London,’ 8vo, 1701.
- ‘The Life of the learned Sir John Cheke [with his] Treatise on Superstition’ [translated from the Latin by William Elstob], 8vo, 1705.
- ‘Annals of the Reformation in England,’ 2 pts. fol. 1709–8. (‘Second edit., being a continuation of the “Annals,”’ 4 vols. fol. 1725–31; 3rd edit., with additions, 4 vols. fol. 1735, 37, 31).
- ‘The History of the Life and Acts of Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury,’ 2 pts. fol. 1710.
- ‘The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury,’ 2 pts. fol. 1711.
- ‘The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury,’ 2 pts. fol. 1718, 17.
- ‘Ecclesiastical Memorials,’ 3 vols. fol. 1721 (reissued in 1733).
All the above works were reprinted at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 19 vols. 8vo, 1812–24, with a general index by R. F. Laurence, 2 vols. 8vo, 1828 (for criticisms on this edition see Gent. Mag. 1848, i. 47 et seq.).
Strype was also the author of a number of single sermons published at various periods. He likewise edited vol. ii. of Dr. John Lightfoot's ‘Works,’ fol. 1684, and ‘Some genuine Remains’ of the same divine, ‘with a large preface concerning the author,’ 8vo, 1700. To ‘The Harmony of the Holy Gospels,’ 8vo, 1705, a posthumous work of his cousin, James Bonnell [q. v.], he furnished an additional preface; while to vol. ii. of Bishop White Kennett's ‘Complete History of England,’ fol. 1706 and 1719, he contributed new notes to the translation of Bishop Francis Godwin's ‘Annals of the Reign of Queen Mary.’ More important work was his edition of Stow's ‘Survey … brought down from 1633 to the present time,’ 2 vols. fol. 1720 (another edit., called the ‘sixth,’ 2 vols. fol. 1754, 55), on which he laboured for eighteen years (Hist. MSS. Comm. 8th Rep. pp. 236, 260). It is invaluable for general reference, although Strype's interference with the original text renders it of little account with antiquaries.
His portrait, engraved by George Vertue, is prefixed to his ‘Ecclesiastical Memorials,’ 1733.
[Biogr. Brit. 1763, vi. 3847; Lysons's Environs, vols. iii. iv.; Morant's Essex; Stow's Survey, ed. Strype; Gent. Mag. 1784 i. 247, 436, 1791 i. 223, 1811 i. 413; Letters of Eminent Literary Men (Camd. Soc.), pp. 177, 180; Remarks of Thomas Hearne (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), who considered him an ‘injudicious writer;’ Cat. of Lansdowne MSS. 1802, preface, and index; Cat. of MSS. in Library of Univ. of Cambridge, vols. iv. v.; Bromley's Cat. of Engraved Brit. Portraits, p. 281; Carte's Hist. of England, vol. iii., pref.; Maitland's Remarks, 1848 (the manuscript is in the Library of Univ. of Cambridge); Maitland's Notes on Strype, 1858; Moens's Reg. of London Dutch Church in Austin Friars, 1884; A. W. Crawley Boevey's Perverse Widow; other letters to and from Strype not mentioned in the text are in Brit. Museum, Harl. MSS. 3781, 7000, Birch MSS. 4163, 4253, 4276, 4277 (mostly copies), Cole MSS. 5831–6–40–52–3–66; Addit. MS. 28104, f. 23, Stowe MS. 746, ff. 106, 111; while many of his miscellaneous collections, some in shorthand and scarcely any of importance, are in the Lansdowne MSS.; other letters are to be found in Coxe's Cat. Cod. MSS. Bibl. Bodl. pt. iv. p. 1126, pt. v. fasc. ii. p. 930; Hist. MSS. Comm. 9th Rep. p. 470; will of John Strype, the elder, in P.C.C. 8 Essex; will of Hester Strype in P.C.C. 15 Mico.]
STRZELECKI, Sir PAUL EDMUND de (1796–1873), Australian explorer, known as Count Strzelecki, of a noble Polish family, was born in 1796 in Polish Prussia. He was educated in part at the High School, Edinburgh. When he came of age he finally abandoned his native country, and, encouraged by friends in England, commenced in 1834 a course of travel in the remote East. On his way back from China he called in at Sydney in April 1839, and was introduced to the governor of New South Wales, Sir George Gipps, who persuaded him to undertake the exploration of the interior. Following in the footsteps of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell [q. v.], he devoted himself especially to the scientific examination of the geology and mineralogy, flora, fauna, and aborigines of the Great Darling Range, conducting all these operations at his own expense. Upon completing the survey of the Darling Range, Strzelecki and his party, including James Macarthur and James Riley, decided not to return to Sydney, but struck out upon a spur of the range leading southwards into Victoria. On their way, on 7 March 1840, they unexpectedly encountered the prospecting party of Angus MacMillan [q. v.] The latter had named the district, distinguished by its grand scenery and mild climate, Caledonia Australis; but, at the suggestion of Strzelecki, it was renamed Gippsland. Upon leaving Mac-
