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LAYFIELD, JOHN, son of Rev. Edward Layfield, St. Peter-le-Poer, London [presumably Rector of Fulham, Middlesex, and Prebendary of London]; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1577, adm. scholar 18 Apr 1578, matr. Lent 1577/8; BA 1581/2; MA 1585; BD 1592; DD 1603; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1583, Major Fellow 29 Apr 1585-1603; ordained; probably Chaplain to George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, during his expedition to the West Indies 1598; Rector of Aldwinkle St. Peter’s, Northants 30 Sep 1598-1602; Rector of St. Clement Danes, London, from 23 Mar 1601/2; Rector of Graveley-cum-Chivesfield, Herts., 10 Oct 1605; one of the revisers of the Bible 1606; Fellow, Chelsea College 1610; author, A Large Relation of the Porto Ricco Voiage, printed in Purchas, Pilgrims, 1625, iv, 1155; m. 24 Jan 1602/3 Bridget, widow of John Brickett, St. Ethelburga, London, merchant, dau. of John Robinson, Reading, Berks., and half-sister of Most Rev. William Laud DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; d. 6 Nov 1617. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.