found: The clergy of the Church of England vindicated, 1710:t.p. (John Lewis)
found: LC in RLIN, 6/10/85(hdg.: Lewis, John, 1675-1747)
found: Wikipedia, viewed on December 23, 2013(John Lewis (29 August 1675 - 16 January 1747) was an English clergyman and antiquary)
found: 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)
found: 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)
found: 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)
