Henry Keepe

son of Charles Keepe sometimes an Officer in the Exchecquer, and in the Army of K. Ch. 1. against his Rebels, was born in Feuter, commonly called Fetter, lane, in the Parish of S. Dunstan in the West in London, entred a Gent. Com. in New Inn in Midsomer term, an. 1668, aged 16 years, departed without a degree confer’d on him, went to the Inner Temple, studied the municipal Law, and wrot,

Monumenta VVestmonasteriensia: or an historical account of the original, increase and present state of S. Peter’s or the Abby-church of Westminster. With all the Epitaphs, Inscriptions, Coats of Armes, and Atchivements of honour to the tombes and grave-stones, &c. Lond. 1682. oct. In which book is involved Reges, Reginae, Nobiles & alii in Ecclesia collegiatâ B. Petri VVestmonasterii sepulti, usque ad an. 1600, published by VV. Camden, as I have elsewhere told you. These Monumenta VVestm. were afterwards describ’d at full with a pencil, and were design’d to be engraven on copper plates, and the book to be enlarged to a folio. Which work being very chargeable to be carried on, there were papers of proposals printed to obtain money from such that would subscribe to them; but what the event of the matter was I cannot tell.

The Genealogies of the high-born Prince and Princess George and Anne, of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of those two noble and illustrious families, &c. from the year of Grace, M, to this present year MDCLXXXIV. &c. Lond. 1684. oct.

A true and perfect Narrative of the strange and unexpected finding the Crucifix and gold chain of that pious Prince St. Edward the King and Confessor, which was found after 620 years interment, &c. Lond. 1688. in 5 sh. in qu. Published under the name of Charles Taylour Gent, and by him dedicated to K. James the 2, by an Epist. set before it, wherein the Author tells us, that his father had served in the quality of a Cornet of Horse in Sir VV. Courtney’s Regiment in all the Wars against his Enemies: And in the book it self p. 5, he tells us that he had belonged to the Quire of VVestminster 18 years. He the said H. Keepe hath also made some collection of Antiquities relating to York, as some Booksellers have told me, but such I have not yet seen. He died in Carter lane near S. Pauls Cath. in London, about the latter end of the month of May in sixteen hundred eighty and eight,1688. and was buried in the Church of S. Gregory joyning to the said Cathedral. This person had changed his name, with his Religion for that of Rome, in the Raign of K. Jam. 2, his lodgings also several times, and died, as I have heard, but in a mean condition.