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Rowland Heylyn (or Heilin or Heylin) (1562 – 1631) was a successful London merchant, sheriff of London in 1624-5 and publisher of a Welsh bible in 1630. ==Life== Heylyn was the son of David Heylyn of the historical Heylyn family of Pentreheylin in Powys, Wales. He entered the free school of Shrewsbury in 1570 and was a pupil of Thomas Lawrence.〔(George WilliamFisher, John Spencer Hill ''Annals of Shrewsbury School'' (1899) )〕 In 1576 he was apprenticed to Thomas Wade of London, and was admitted to freedom of the Ironmongers' Company in 1584. In 1601 he purchased considerable lands at Laleham and Staines.〔(London Metropolitan Archives - Exemplification of a final concord made in the Court of Common Pleas in Easter term 43 Elizabeth [1601] ACC/1081/001 )〕 He was assistant of the Ironmongers in 1612 and served as master in 1614. He continued to buy property and in 1619 acquired land at Mayfield, Colton, Haywood and Blithbury in Staffordshire.〔( Staffordshire Record Office D1798/H.M.ASTON/21/3 1617/18 )〕 He lived in the Parish of St Alban Wood Street and was elected alderman of Cripplegate ward in 1624 and was Sheriff of London that year.〔(Theophilus Charles Noble ''A brief history of the Worshipful company of ironmongers, London, A. D. 1351-1889'' (1889) )〕 In 1625 he was master of the Ironmongers ccompany again. Heylyn supported with Thomas Myddelton publication of the Welsh quarto Bible of 1630, which was bound with the Welsh Prayer Book and the Edmund Prys translation of the Psalter. Other works he saw into print were the Welsh-Latin dictionary of John Davies, and the ''Practice of Piety'' of Lewis Bayly in the translation by Rowland Vaughan.〔(''Welsh Biography Online'' )〕 A portrait of Heylyn by Henry Cocke in the Ironmongers' Hall is described as "Mr Rowland Heylyn a good benefactor. This gentleman's features are represented as emaciated, but pleasing; with white beard and whiskers; habited in a black gown and cap; his right hand on a book.〔(William Herbert ''History of the worshipful Company of ironmongers of London'' 1837 )〕 He was described by Blakeway in the Sheriffs of Montgomery as "The pious and munificent Rowland Heylyn Alderman of London, promoter of the Welsh translation of the bible and of every other laudable undertaking in his day".〔(The visitation of Shropshire, taken in the year 1623 (1889) )〕 He left £300 for the poor of Shrewsbury and 83 books to Shrewsbury School.〔(Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire and its borders Powys-Land Club Volume: 27 )〕 Heylyn married Alice Aldworth, but had no surviving children. He owned property in Laleham and Staines in Middlesex, and manors in Staffordshire and other counties which he left to the children of his two sisters.〔(Shropshire Archives Extract of the Will of Rowland Heylyn, Citizen and Alderman of London 2922/12/8/1 7 February 1631/32 )〕 He was the uncle of Henry Heylyn whose son Peter Heylyn was a notable ecclesiastic and author.〔(The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 74, Part 2 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rowland Heylyn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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