Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Layfield, Edward
Layfield, Edward, of London, cler. fil. St. John's Coll., matric. 28 June, 1620, aged 16; B.A. 20 April, 1624 (incorporated at Cambridge 1625), M.A. 13 May, 1628, incorporated at Cambridge 1633 (D.D.); admitted to Merchant Taylors' school 1617, rector of Ibstock, co. Leicester, 1632, canon residentiary of St. Paul's 1633, archdeacon of Essex 1634, vicar of All Hallows, Barking, 1635, rector of East Horsley, Surrey, 1637, of Wrotham, Kent, 1638, of Chiddingfold, Surrey, 1640, until sequestered by the Westminster assembly in 1645, rector of Colne Wakes, Essex, 1640-66, and of Barnes, Surrey, 1663-80; born 8 Jan., 1604-5, buried at All Hallows, Barking, 10 Aug., 1680. See Robinson, i. 92; Lansdowne MS. 986, f. 244; & Add. MSS. 15,669-71.