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Thomas Baylie
(1582?1663) was an English clergyman, member of the
Westminster Assembly
,
Fifth Monarchist
and ejected minister.
Life
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He was born in Wiltshire in 1582, and was entered either as a servitor or batler of
St. Alban Hall, Oxford
, in 1600. He was elected demy of
Magdalen College
in 1600, and perpetual fellow of the college in 1611, being then M.A.
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Afterwards he became rector of
Manningford Bruce
, Wiltshire, and he proceeded to the degree of B.D. in 1621, at which time he was a zealous puritan. He took the
covenant
in 1641 and was nominated a member of the Westminster Assembly of divines. He was given the rich rectory of
Mildenhall, Wiltshire
. There he preached the tenets of the fifth-monarchy men, and was occupied in ejecting ministers and schoolmasters that were called ignorant and scandalous.
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On being turned out of his living after the
Restoration
, he set up a
conventicle
at
Marlborough, Wiltshire
. There he died and was buried in the church of St. Peter on 27 March 1663.
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He published a work dedicated to
Sir Thomas Coventry
, keeper of the great seal.
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Thomae Baylaeei Maningfordiensis Ecclesise Pastoris de Merito Mortis Christi, et Modo Conversionis, diatribae duee, provt ab ipso in schola theologica apud Oxonienses publice ad disputandum propositae fuerunt, Maij 8. An. Dom. 1621. Nec non Concio ejusdem ad Clerum apud eosdem habita in templo Beatae Mariae, Iulij 5 An. D. 1622
, Oxford, 1626.
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