Thomas Baylie (1582–1663) was an English clergyman, member of the

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, Fifth Monarchist and ejected minister.

Life

He was born in Wiltshire in 1582, and was entered either as a servitor or batler of

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, in 1600. He was elected demy of

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in 1600, and perpetual fellow of the college in 1611, being then M.A. :s:Baylie, Thomas (DNB00) Afterwards he became rector of

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, Wiltshire, and he proceeded to the degree of B.D. in 1621, at which time he was a zealous puritan. He took the

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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. On being turned out of his living after the Restoration, he set up a

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. There he died and was buried in the church of St. Peter on 27 March 1663.

Works

He published a work dedicated to Sir Thomas Coventry, keeper of the great seal.''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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baylie, Thomas 1582 births 1663 deaths 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of St Alban Hall, Oxford English Calvinist and Reformed theologians English subscribers to the Solemn League and Covenant 1643 Ejected English ministers of 1662 Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Fifth Monarchists Westminster Divines