The Bayley Family. 193 



It has been remarked by Burke in his account of this family in 

 his " Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies," that there must have 

 been some special limitation in the original patent, or the title 

 could not have descended to the Brimslade branch, which was 

 derived from the brother of the first Baronet. It seems to have 

 been borne unchallenged by two of them, the last. Sir Edward 

 Ernie, having died in 1787. He was Rector of Avington in Berks. 

 On his decease the Baronetcy became extinct. 



Thk Bayley Family. 



Of this family we know but very little. In the time of Charles 

 I. and II. Richard Bayley, and Guido Bayley, of Etchilhampton, 

 are named among the gentry of Wilts. The following account of 

 one member of the family is given in Palmer's Nonconformists 

 Memorial. 



"William Bayley,' M.A.., of New College, Oxford, was born of 

 a good family at Etchilhampton near ' The Devizes.' His father 

 would have bought him a good living, but he, judging such a 

 course unlawful, became a Chaplain to Lord Roberts, sometime 

 before the war broke out. Settling afterwards at Taverton, near 

 Plymouth, he was so harassed by the neighbouring cavaliers that 

 he was compelled to escape with his family by sea to London. 

 There he got a living for above a year, and afterwards was per- 

 suaded by some members of Parliament to go back into the west 

 and accept the sequestered living of Stoke Fleming in Devonshire. 



1 The following pedigree of Bayley of Etchilhampton, is given in Harl. MS. 

 1443, fol, 133 b. Aems ; — Or, on a fesse engrailed azui-e between three horses' 

 heads erased sable, three fleur de lis of the first. 

 John Bayley, of Echilhampton. 



John Bayley. 



Eobert Bayley. 



I 

 Kobert Bayley, = Jane, dau. of Ambrose Dantesy, 

 I of Potteme. 



Richard, = Honor, dau. of Millicent,='niomas Hulbert, 



I Edward Nicholas, of Eston, co. 



of All Cannings. Wilts. 



Robert, Jane, 



a>t. 6 months. ast, 2 years. 

 (Anno 1G23.) 



