Henry Keepe

Henry Keepe (1652–1688) was an English antiquarian, known for his Monumenta Westmonasteriensia, a history of Westminster Abbey.

Born in Fetter Lane, London, he was the son of Charles Keepe, a Cavalier cornet in Sir William Courtney's regiment of cavalry in the English Civil War, and then in the exchequer office. He entered New Inn, Oxford, as a gentleman-commoner in Midsummer term 1668. Leaving university without a degree, he returned to London and studied law in the Inner Temple.

For 18 years Keepe belonged to the choir of Westminster Abbey. He died at his lodgings in Carter Lane, near St Paul's Cathedral, at the end of May 1688, and was buried in St Gregory by St Paul's. Anthony Wood stated that Keepe had become a Catholic convert under James II.

Keepe's works are:

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "". Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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