A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Baynes, Roger
BAYNES or BEYNES, ROGER.
Essayist.
1546—1623.
Admitted 24 November. 1565.
"Son and heir of Hugh Beynes, of Shrewsbury, co. Salop, Gent." There is no record of his call, and, becoming a Roman Catholic, he entered the English College at Rheims, 4 July, 1579. In the same year he became Secretary to Cardinal Allen, whom he accompanied to Rome, where he resided till his death, 9 Oct. 1623, and where, in the English College, there is a monument to his memory in which he is styled "Nobilis Anglus."
He left behind him two works, the first entitled. Praise of Solitarinesse, published in London 1577, and The Baynes of Aquisgrane, treating of Profit, Pleasure, Honour, published at Augusta, 1617. Both works are very scarce. There is a copy of the latter in the British Museum.