Heylin

Heylin, PETER, an English divine of considerable note in his own day, was descended from an ancient Welsh family belonging to Montgomeryshire, and was born at Burford, in Oxfordshire, November 29, 1599. He studied at Oxford, where he took the degree of D.D. Through the interest of Laud (q.v.), Heylin was appointed chaplain-in-ordinary to King Charles in 1629. He was deprived of his livings under the Commonwealth; but after the Restoration was made sub-dean of Westminster. He died May 8, 1662. Heylin was a very voluminous controversialist writer on the anti-Puritan side, and wrote cosmographies, histories of England, of the Reformation, and of the Presbyterians. See FULLER, THOMAS.