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Edward Layfield

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Edward Layfield, D.D. was a Church of England priest in the 17th century.[1]

Layfield was educated at Merchant Taylors' and St John's College, Oxford.[2] He held Livings at Ibstock, East Horsley, Wrotham, Chiddingfold, Barnes and All Hallows-by-the-Tower in the City of London. He became a Canon Residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1633; and Archdeacon of Essex in 1634.[3] He died in 1680.

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  1. ^ CCEd
  2. ^ Labdon-Ledsam
  3. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1969), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 1, pp. 9–10