Editing Lancelot Addison

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'''Lancelot Addison''' (1632 – 20 April 1703) was an English writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born at [[Crosby Ravensworth]]<ref name="Julian">John Julian: ''Dictionary of Hymnology'', 2nd edition, p. 19. London: John Murray, 1907.</ref> in [[Westmorland]]. He was educated at the [[Queen's College, Oxford]].

Addison worked at [[Tangier]] as a [[chaplain]] for seven years and upon his return he wrote ''"West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco",'' (1671).

In 1670 he was appointed [[royal chaplain]] or Chaplain in Ordinary to the King,<ref name="Julian"/> shortly thereafter [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Milston]], Wilts (from 1670 to 1681), and Prebendary in the Cathedral of Salisbury.<ref name="Julian"/> In 1681 Milston Rectory burnt down.<ref>ODNB: Pat Rogers, "Addison, Joseph (1672–1719)"[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/156]; Alastair Hamilton, "Addison, Lancelot (1632–1703)" [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/157. Retrieved 1 May 2014]</ref> In 1683 he became [[Lichfield Cathedral|Dean of Lichfield]], and in 1684 [[Archdeacon of Coventry]].

Among his other works was ''"The Present State of the Jews"'' (1675), a detailed study of the Jewish population of the Barbary Coast in the seventeenth century, their customs, and their religious behaviour.<ref name="uchicago">Rosenberger Collection, University of Chicago; Early Apologists
and Christian Hebraists #13 [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/rosenberger/Emancip.html]</ref> Scholars have pointed out that part of Addison's book simply repeats material found in the English translation of [[Johannes Buxtorf]]'s work ''Synagoga Judaica: The Jewish Synagogue, or an Historical Narration of the State of the Jewes'' (London, 1657).<ref name="upenn">[http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/exhibit/toc.html University of Pennsylvania Library]</ref>

He died in 1703 leaving three sons, the essayist [[Joseph Addison]] (1672–1719, eldest child), [[Gulston Addison]], who became Governor of [[Chennai|Madras]], and the scholar Lancelot Addison (1680–1710), and two daughters: Dorothy Addison (1674–1750) and Anne Addison (1676-Unknown).

Addison was buried in [[Lichfield Cathedral]] in [[Staffordshire]].

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