William Bayly (barrister)

William Bayly, Bayley or Bayliffe JP (c. 1540 – 1612) was an English barrister and administrator who briefly served as a Member for the borough of Chippenham in the English Parliament of 1572.[2]

Family crest with three hearts
Arms of the Bayly family of Chippenham, Wiltshire[nb 1]

Early life and family

Bayly was born at Chippenham around 1540.[3] He was the son of John Bayly, a lawyer at Lyon's Inn[4] and Joan or Jone, both of Castle Cary, Somerset.[3] The Bayly family were of reasonable nobility; they were armigerous and allied, mostly in providing legal and agency assistance, to the influential Seymour family.[5] On 27 November 1559, aged 19, William was admitted to the Middle Temple for training as a barrister.[6] Completing his tuition, he was called to the Bar and subsequently granted the lease to Chippenham's Monkton House and half its estate (400 acres) in 1567 by Gabriel Pleydell,[7] an infamous politician who had once conspired to exile Queen Mary I.[8] Bayly became Pleydell's son-in-law through his marriage to Gabriel's only daughter, Agnes, in St Andrew's Church, Chippenham. The section of the church in which they married was formerly named "Bayliffe's Aisle" in their honour.[9]

References

Notes
  1. Escutcheon: "Sable a chevron between three hearts or". Sir William Segar confirmed and patented the arms in 1623; he also granted William's son, John Bayly, a personal crest.[1]

Footnotes
  1. St George, Lennard & Marshall 1882, p. 13
  2. Hasler 1981, pp. 14–15
  3. Bayliffe, Bryant G. "John Bayliffe: Barrister and Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple and Hackney, Middx. Esq. (1580 - 1656)". 2008. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  4. Thrush & Ferris 2010, p. 23
  5. Bayliffe, Bryant G. "Henry Bayliffe of Chippenham, Wilts., Esq., J.P. (1563-1644)". 1 March 2009. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  6. Bayliffe, Bryant G. "Entries relevant to Family of Bayliffe from Middle Temple Records". December 2008. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
  7. Wilson 1983, p. 32
  8. Bindoff 1982, p. 111
  9. Aubrey 1862, p. 72

Bibliography
  • Aubrey, John (1862). Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F.R.S., A.D. 1659-70, with Illustrations. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. OCLC 6327102.
  • Bindoff, Stanley Thomas (1982). The House of Commons 1509 – 1558. Vol. 1. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-0-436-04282-9.
  • Hasler, P.W. (1981). The House of Commons 1558 – 1603: Members A-C. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-0-11-887501-1.
  • St George, Henry; Lennard, Samson; Marshall, George William (1882). The Visitation of Wiltshire, 1623. London: G. Bell & Sons. OCLC 807196730.
  • Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. (2010). The House of Commons 1604 – 1629: Members A-C. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-10-700225-8.
  • Wilson, Avice R. (1983). Cocklebury: A Farming Area and Its People in the Vale of Wiltshire. Bognor Regis: Phillimore. ISBN 978-0-85-033510-1.
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