Samuel Haynes D.D. (died 9 June 1752) was a

Canon of Windsor The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Foundation The college of canons was established in 1348 by letters patent of King Edward III. It was formally constituted on the feast of S ...

from 1743 to 1752.

Family

He was the son of

Hopton Haynes Hopton Haynes (1667–1749) was an English employee of the Royal Mint and theological writer. Life Born about 1672, Haynes entered the service of the Mint as weigher and teller in 1696 or early in 1697, almost at the same time as Isaac Newton's ...

, assay master of the

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Career

He was King's Scholar at

Eton College Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...

and later educated at

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

, where he graduated B.A. in 1724, M.A. in 1727, and D.D. in 1748. He was admitted to

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in 1720, and appointed tutor to James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury. He was appointed: *Rector of Hatfield, Hertfordshire 1737 - 1752 *Rector of Clothall, Hertfordshire 1747 - 1752 He was appointed to the eleventh stall in

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in 1743, which he held until his death in 1752. Haynes edited the Hatfield State Papers.

William Oldys William Oldys (14 July 1696 – 15 April 1761) was an English antiquarian and bibliographer. Life He was probably born in London, the illegitimate son of Dr William Oldys (1636–1708), chancellor of Lincoln diocese. His father had held the ...

wrote that he was invited to participate in the edition, but turned down the offer, because papers dealing with the young Princess Elizabeth were being censored. Haynes produced one edited volume, ''Collection of State Papers relating to Affairs in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, from 1542 to 1570. Transcribed from the Original Letters and other Authentick Memorials left by W. Cecill, Lord Burghley, and now remaining at Hatfield House'' (1740). William Murdin produced two more (1759), running to 1612.

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