| AdminHistory | Sir John Hayward: born at or near Felixstowe, Suffolk, c1564; educated there; graduated BA from Pembroke College Cambridge, 1580-1581; MA, 1584; later LLD; published an account of the first year of Henry IV's reign, including a description of the deposition of Richard II, with a dedication to the Earl of Essex, 1599; assertions by Essex's enemies that the work contained veiled references to contemporary politics were probably false, but Elizabeth I suggested that parts of it might be treasonable and Hayward was brought before the Star Chamber and imprisoned; reference was made to Essex's connection with the volume in the official "directions"; expounding his crimes issued by the government to preachers; Hayward was apparently not released from prison until after Essex's execution in 1601; on James I's accession he sought royal favour by publishing treatises justifying James's succession and the divine right of kings and arguing for the union of England and Scotland; patronised by Prince Henry who was responsible for suggesting Hayward produce a work on the lives of William I, William II, and Henry I; Hayward secured a large practice in the Court of Arches; when James I founded Chelsea College, Hayward was appointed one of the two historiographers, 1610; admitted a member of the College of Advocates, 1616; suggested as a member of the projected academy of literature, 1617; knighted, 1619; published pious manuals, but mainly historical works; died at his house in Great St Bartholomew's, near Smithfield, London, 1627; buried in the church of Great St Bartholomew's. Publications include: 'The First Part of the Life and Raigne of Henrie the IIII ...' (London, 1599); 'An Answer to the First Part of a Certaine Conference concerning Succession' (London, 1603); 'A Treatise of Vnion of the two Realmes of England and Scotland' (London, 1604); 'The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England. William the first, William the second, Henrie the first' (London, 1613); 'The Sanctuarie of a Troubled Soule' (London, 1616); edited Sir Roger Williams's 'Actions of the Lowe Countries' (London, 1618); 'David's Teares' (London, 1621-1623); 'Christ's Prayer upon the Crosse for his Enemies' (London, 1623); 'Of Supremacie in affaires of Religion' (London, 1624-1625); 'The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt' (published posthumously, London, 1630). |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |