John Hayward

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John Hayward

Sir John Hayward (c. 1560 - June 27, 1627), English

England

Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
, was born at or near Felixstowe

Felixstowe

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, Suffolk

Suffolk

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, where he was educated, and afterwards proceeded to Pembroke College

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a college of the University of Cambridge, home to over six hundred students and fellow, and is the third oldest of the colleges....
, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, where he took the degrees of B.A., M.A. and LL.D.

In 1599 he published The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV
Henry IV of England

Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland . Like other kings of England, he also claimed the title of King of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, Henry Bolingbroke....
dedicated to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is the best-known of the many holders of the title "Earl of Essex." He was a military hero and royal favourite, but following a poor campaign against Irish rebels during the Nine Years War in 1599, he defied the Queen and was executed for treason....
. This was reprinted in 1642. Queen Elizabeth

Elizabeth I of England

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and her advisers disliked the tone of the book and its dedication, and the queen ordered Francis Bacon to search for places in it that might be drawn within case of treason

Treason

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Sir John Hayward (c. 1560 - June 27, 1627), English

England

Historian

Felixstowe

Suffolk

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a college of the University of Cambridge, home to over six hundred students and fellow, and is the third oldest of the colleges....
, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

Elizabeth I of England

Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of loyalty to one's sovereignty or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife ....
. Bacon reported for treason "surely I find none, but for felony very many", explaining that many of the sentences were stolen from Tacitus

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
; but nevertheless Hayward was put in prison, where he remained until about 1600.

On the accession of James I

James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
in 1603 he courted the new kings' favor by publishing two pamphlets, An Answer to the first part of a certaine conference concerning succession, and A Treatise of Union of England and Scotland. The former pamphlet, an argument in favor of the divine right of kings, was reprinted in 1683 as The Right of Succession by the friends of the Duke of York

James II of England

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during the struggle over the Exclusion Bill

Exclusion Bill

The Exclusion Bill Crisis ran from 1678 through 1681 in the reign of Charles II of England. The Exclusion Bill sought to exclude the king's brother and heir presumptive, James II of England, from the throne of England because he was Roman Catholic....
. In 1610 Hayward was appointed one of the historiographers of the college which James founded at Chelsea

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; in 1613 he published his Lives of the Three Norman Kings of England, written at the request of James's son, Prince Henry

Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

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; in 1616 he became a member of the College of Advocates; and in 1619 he was knighted.

He died in London

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on the 27th of June 1627. Among his manuscripts was found The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
Edward VI of England

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, first published in 1630, and Certain Yeres of Queen Elizabeth's Raigne, the beginning of which was printed in an edition of his Edward VI, published in 1636, but which was first published in a complete form in 1840 for the Camden Society

Camden Society

The Camden Society, named after the early English historian William Camden, was founded in 1838 in London to publish early historical and literary materials, both unpublished manuscripts and new editions of rare printed books....
under the editorship of John Bruce, who prefixed an introduction on the life and writings of the author.

Hayward was conscientious and diligent in obtaining information, and although his reasoning on questions of morality is often childish, his descriptions are generally graphic and vigorous. Notwithstanding his imprisonment under Elizabeth, his portrait of the qualities of the queen's mind and person is flattering rather than detractive. He also wrote several works of a devotional character.