Thomas Baylie

a Wiltshire Man born, was entred either a Servitour or Batler of S. Albans Hall in Mich. term, 1600 (43. Elizab.) aged 18 years, elected Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1602, and perpetual Fellow of that House 1611, he being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became Rector of Maningford Crucis near to Marlborough in his own Country, and in 1621 was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, at which time, and after, he was zealously inclin’d to the puritanical party. At length upon the change of the times in 1641 siding openly with them, he took the Covenant, was made one of the Assemb. of Divines, and soon after had, for the love he bore to the righteous cause, the rich Rectory of Mildenhall in his own Country (then belonging to Dr. Geor. Morley a Royalist) confer’d upon him. Where being setled, he preached up the tenets held by the Fifth-monarchy-men, he being by that time one himself, and afterwards became a busie Man in ejecting such that were then (1654 and after) called ignorant and scandalous Ministers and Schoolmasters. He hath written,

De merito mortis Christi, & modo conversionis, diatribae duo. Oxon. 1626. qu.

Concio ad clerum habita in Templo B. Mariae Oxon, 5. Jul. 1622. in Jud. ver. xi. printed with the former. He hath also, as I have been informed, one or more English Sermons extant, but such I have not yet seen. After the restoration of his Majesty, he was turned out from Mildenhall; and dying at Marlborough, in sixteen hundred sixty and three,1663. was buried in the Church of S. Peter there, on the 27 day of March the same year: Whereupon his Conventicle at that place, was carried on by another Brother as zealous as himself.