Thomas Hayne

, Son of Rob. Hayne, was born in a Town commonly, but corruptly, called Thurciston, near to, and in the County of Leicester: At the last of which places having received his juvenile learning, was sent to the University, and matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Coll. in Mich. Term 1599 and in that of his age 17; where being put under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor, obtained great knowledge in Philosophy, and the more for this reason, that he was taken off from various Recreations and Rambles by a lameness in his Legs from his Cradle. After he had taken a degree in Arts 1604 he became one of the Ushers of the School in the Parish of S. Laurence Pountney in London, erected by the Merchant Taylors; and afterward being M. of Arts, Usher of the School belonging to the City of London in Ch. Church Hospital. He was a noted Critick, an excellent Linguist and a solid Divine, beloved of learned Men, and particularly respected by Selden. He hath written,

Grammatices Latinae Compendium, an. 1637, &c. Lond. 1640. in oct. To which are added two appendices.

Linguarum cognatio: seu de linguis in genere, & de variarum linguarum harmoniâ dissertatio. Lond. 1639. oct. It was also printed, if I mistake not, in 1634.

Pax in terrâ: seu tractatus de pace ecclesiasticâ, &c. Lond. 1639. oct.

The equal ways of God in rectifying the unequal ways of man. Lond. 1639 &c. in oct.

General view of the holy Scriptures: or, the times, places, and persons of holy Scripture, &c. Lond. 1640 fol. sec. Edit.

Life and death of Dr. Mart. Luther. Lond. 1641. qu. He gave way to fate on the 27. of July in sixteen hundred forty and five, and was buried in the Parish Church of Ch. Ch. within Newgate in the City of London. 1645. Soon after was put a monument over his grave, about the middle of the Church, on the North side, and a large inscription thereon, which about 20 years after was consumed and defaced, with the Church it self, when the great fire hapned in London. In the said inscription he is stiled Antiquitatis acerrimus investigator, antiquitatem praematuravit suam. Publicis privatisque studiis sese totum communi bono coelebem devovit. Pacis Ecclesiae Irenicus pacificus jure censendus, &c. In the Library at Leicester is another inscription put up to his memory, which being perfect, you may take instead of the other. See Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 166. a. b. By his will, which I have seen, he gave to the said Library all his Study of books, except some few which he gave to the Library at Westminster. He gave also 400 l. to be bestowed in buying Lands, or Houses in, or near, Leycester of the yearly Rent of 24 l. for ever, for the maintenance of a Schoolmaster in Thurciston alias Thrushington or some Town near thereunto, to teach ten poor Children, &c. and for the maintenance of two poor Scholars in Linc. Coll. to come from the Free-School at Leycester, or in defect of that, from the School at Milton, &c. The Schoolmaster to have 12 l. yearly, and the two Scholars six pounds yearly, &c. In the said Will are other acts of Charity mentioned, which, for brevity sake, I now pass by.