Simon Haynes (priest)
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Simon Haynes or Heynes (died 1552) was
Life
Haynes was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[2] He graduated B.A. in 1516, was elected fellow of his college in 1516, proceeded M.A. in 1519, and had a title for orders from Queens' College in February 1521. He took part in the expulsion of Dr. John Jennins from the presidency of Queens' in 1518, and in 1528 was himself elected president. Being empowered by the college to make bargains and covenants at his discretion, he alienated some of the estates belonging to the society.[3]
On 28 November 1528 Haynes was instituted to the rectory of
In 1535 Haynes was sent with diplomat
On 16 July 1537 he was elected
In 1538 Haynes and Edmund Bonner, the Bishop of London, were sent to Spain, and joined Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Ambassador there. Offended by Wyatt's treatment of them, they later charged him with holding traitorous correspondence with Cardinal Reginald Pole and speaking disrespectfully of the king. Haynes signed the decree of 9 July 1540 invalidating the marriage of Henry VIII with Anne of Cleves, and on the following 17 Dec. the king made him one of the first prebendaries of Westminster.[3]
Haynes was a visitor of the university of Oxford, the college of Windsor, and
Notes
- ^ Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24.
- ^ "Haynes, Simon (HNS515S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Heynes, Simon". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.