Captain John Stevens

I should be glad to learn some account of *Capt. John Stevens*, the continuator of Dugdale's *Monasticon* in 1722. He is generally considered to have edited the English abridgment of the *Monasticon*, in one vol. 1718, though a passage in Thoresby's *Diary* mentions that it contained "some reflections upon the Reformation, which the *Spanish Priest*, who is said to be translator and abridger of the three Latin volumes, would not omit." A note by the editor of Thoresby's *Diary* says that— "Mr. Gough was uncertain by whom this Translation and Abridgment was prepared. He supposed that it was don…