William Bayly, Bayley or Bayliffe JP ( 1540 – 1612) was an English barrister and administrator who briefly served as a Member for the borough of Chippenham in the English Parliament of 1572.

Early life and family

Bayly was born at

Chippenham Chippenham is a market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village ...

around 1540. He was the son of John Bayly, a lawyer at Lyon's Inn and Joan or Jone, both of

Castle Cary Castle Cary () is a market town and civil parish in south Somerset, England, north west of Wincanton and south of Shepton Mallet, at the foot of Lodge Hill and on the River Cary, a tributary of the Parrett. History The word Cary derives fr ...

, Somerset.Bayliffe, Bryant G. The Bayly family were of reasonable nobility; they were armigerous and allied, mostly in providing legal and agency assistance, to the influential Seymour family. On 27 November 1559, aged 19, William was admitted to the Middle Temple for training as a barrister. Completing his tuition, he was

called to the Bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

and subsequently granted the lease to Chippenham's Monkton House and half its estate (400 acres) in 1567 by

Gabriel Pleydell Gabriel Pleydell ( 1519 – 1591) of Midg Hall in the parish of Lydiard Tregoze, Lydiard St John (later Lydiard Tregoze) in Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician who served as Member of parliament#United Kingdom, Member of P ...

, an infamous politician who had once conspired to exile

Queen Mary I Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. Sh ...

. Bayly became Pleydell's son-in-law through his marriage to Gabriel's only daughter, Agnes, in

St Andrew's Church, Chippenham St Andrew's Church, in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, is a Church of England parish church. It is one of four Anglican parish churches in the town, and serves the south and east of Chippenham. The church is situated in the Market Place, beside ...

. The section of the church in which they married was formerly named "Bayliffe's Aisle" in their honour.

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