Author:John Lewis (1675-1747)

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John Lewis
(1675–1747)

John Lewis

Works

• The History of the Life and Sufferings of … John Wicliffe. … With a Collection of Papers relating to the said History, never before printed, Lond. 1720 and 1723;
• The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent, the first Printer in England. In which is given an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Prynting in England during his time, till 1493, was first published, Lond. 1737. In this work he was assisted by Sir Peter Thompson and Joseph Ames.
• The Life of Reynold Pecocke, Bishop of St. Asaph and Chichester; … being a sequel of the Life of Dr. J. Wiclif, to an introduction to the history of the English Reformation, appeared in 1744;
• The Life of Dr. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. With an Appendix of illustrative Documents and Papers, was first printed in 2 vols. in 1855. With an introduction by Thomas Hudson Turner.
• A Complete History of the several Translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament into English, both in MS. and in print, 2nd edit., with additions, Lond. (1739)
• The History and Antiquities, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of the Isle of Tenet in Kent, (London:1723)); 2nd edit., with additions, 2 pts. (Lond.:1736.)
• The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Church of Favresham, in Kent, of the adjoining Priory of Davington, and Maison-Dieu of Ospringe, and Parish of Bocton subtus le Bleyne, 2 pts. (London:1727.)
• A little Dissertation on the Antiquities of the two ancient Ports of Richborough and Sandwich, by the Isle of Tenet in Kent. (?)

• The Church Catechism explain'd by way of question and answer, and confirm'd by Scripture proofs, (London:1700)
• An Apology for the Clergy of the Church of England, in a particular examination of a book [by Matthew Tindal] entituled "The Rights of the Christian Church," and its second Defence, (London: 1711)
• The Agreement of the Lutheran Churches with the Church of England, shewn from the publick Confessions of the several Churches, (London: 1715)
• Two letters in defence of the English Liturgy and Reformation, a reply to Thomas Bisse, 2nd edit., with additions, 2 pts. (London :1717)
• Historical Essay upon the Consecration of Churches, (London: 1719)
• A Specimen of the Errors in the second volume of Collier's "Ecclesiastical History," being a Vindication of Bishop Burnet's "History of the Reformation", (1724)
• A Dissertation on the Antiquity and Use of Seals in England (London: 1736)
• A brief Discovery of the Arts of the Popish Protestant Missioners in England, to pave the way for the restitution … of Popery, (London 1750.)
• An Essay towards an account of Bishops suffragan in England, (?) printed in John Nichols's Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, (1790), vol. vi.

Works about Lewis

• "Lewis, John (1675-1747)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.