Simon Haynes (priest)

Simon Haynes or Heynes (died 1552) was Dean of Exeter between 1537 and 1552.^[1]

Life

Haynes was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.^[2] He graduated B.A. in 1516, was elected fellow of his college in 1516, proceeded M.A. in 1519, and had a title for orders from Queens' College in February 1521. He took part in the expulsion of Dr. John Jennins from the presidency of Queens' in 1518, and in 1528 was himself elected president. Being empowered by the college to make bargains and covenants at his discretion, he alienated some of the estates belonging to the society.^[3]

On 28 November 1528 Haynes was instituted to the rectory of Barrow, Suffolk. He was one of the delegates appointed by the senate to make a determination as to the king's divorce in 1529–30; commenced D.D. in 1531, and in 1532–3 and 1533–4 served the office of vice-chancellor. On 23 May 1533 he attested Thomas Cranmer's instrument of divorce at Dunstable, and in 1534 was admitted vicar of Stepney, Middlesex. During that year he and John Skip were selected by the court to preach at Cambridge against papal supremacy.^[3]

In 1535 Haynes was sent with Christoper Mount as ambassador to France. At the end of the same year he was instituted to the rectory of Fulham, Middlesex, and on 24 December was installed canon of Windsor. On 16 July 1537 he was elected dean of Exeter, and in that capacity he attended the baptism of Prince Edward; and soon afterwards resigned the presidency of Queens' College. A letter in condemnation of the bill of the Six Articles, addressed by him to a member of parliament, is printed in John Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials.^[3]

In 1538 Haynes and Edmund Bonner were sent to Spain, and joined Sir Thomas Wyatt, the ambassador there. Offended by Wyatt's treatment of them, they later charged him with holding traitorous correspondence with Reginald Pole and speaking disrespectfully of the king. Haynes signed the decree of 9 July 1540 invalidating the marriage of Henry VIII with Anne of Cleves, and on the following 17 Dec. the king made him one of the first prebendaries of Westminster.^[3]

Haynes was a visitor of the university of Oxford, the college of Windsor, and Exeter Cathedral, and one of the commissioners against the Anabaptists. He also assisted in the compilation of the first English liturgy. He died in October 1552, leaving by his wife Joan (who then married William May) and two sons, Joseph and Simon.^[3]

Notes

↑ Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24.
↑ "Haynes, Simon (HNS515S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
1 2 3 4 5 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Heynes, Simon". Dictionary of National Biography 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Heynes, Simon". Dictionary of National Biography 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Religious titles
Preceded by Reginald Pole	Dean of Exeter 1537–1552	Succeeded by James Haddon

Deans of Exeter

High Medieval	Serlo Roger de Wynkleigh William de Stanwey Roger de Toriz John Noble John Pycot Andrew de Kilkenny

Late Medieval	Henry de Somerset Thomas de Lechlade Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio Richard de Coleton Richard de Braylegh Reginald de Bugwell Robert Sumpter Thomas Walkyngton Ralph Tregrision Stephen Payn John Cobethorn John Hals Henry Webber Peter Courtenay Lionel Woodville John Arundel

Early modern	Edward Willoughby Thomas Hobbes John Vesey Richard Pace Reginald Pole Simon Haynes James Haddon Thomas Reynolds Gregory Dodds George Carew Stephen Townesend Matthew Sutcliffe William Peterson Seth Ward Edward Young George Cary The Hon Richard Annesley William Wake Lancelot Blackburne Edward Trelawney John Gilbert Alured Clarke William Holmes Charles Lyttleton Jeremiah Milles William Buller Charles Harward

Late modern	Charles Talbot George Gordon John Garnett Whittington Landon Thomas Lowe Charles Ellicott The Viscount Midleton Archibald Boyd Benjamin Cowie Alfred Earle Henry Gamble Walter Matthews Spencer Carpenter Alexander Wallace Marcus Knight Clifford Chapman Richard Eyre Keith Jones Jonathan Meyrick Jonathan Draper

Diocese of Exeter

Exeter Cathedral The Palace, Exeter The Old Deanery, Exeter

Office holders	The Bishop of Exeter, Robert Atwell The Bishop suffragan of Plymouth, Nick McKinnel The Bishop suffragan of Crediton, Sarah Mullally AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet The Dean of Exeter, Jonathan Draper The Archdeacon of Plymouth, Ian Chandler The Archdeacon of Exeter, Christopher Futcher The Archdeacon of Barnstaple, Mark Butchers The Archdeacon of Totnes, Douglas Dettmer

Selected deaneries	Deanery of Barnstaple Deanery of Cadbury Deanery of Christianity (Exeter) Deanery of Hartland

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Cornwall (11th century – 1876; became the Diocese of Truro)

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