This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Baylie, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Thomas Baylie (1582–1663) was an English clergyman, member of the Westminster Assembly, Fifth Monarchist and ejected minister.
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.[1]
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.[1]
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.[1]
He published a work dedicated to Sir Thomas Coventry, keeper of the great seal.[1][2]
