Heylin, Peter, English divine, born at Burford; graduated at Oxford, and in 1629 became chaplain-in-ordinary to Charles I.; was a zealous champion of the Church of England; forfeited his livings and property during the Puritan ascendency, but was reinstated at the Restoration; he wrote a “Defence of the Church of England,” “Life of Bishop Laud,” &c. (1600‒1662).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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