Background
He was a son of Richard Byfield by his second wife, and Nicholas Byfield was his elder half-brother.
He was a son of Richard Byfield by his second wife, and Nicholas Byfield was his elder half-brother.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts 19 October 1619, and Master of Arts
He was 16 years of age in 1615 and 67 at his death in December 1664. He was probably born in 1598. In Michaelmas term 1615 he was entered either as servitor or batler at The Queen"s College, Oxford.
29 October 1622.
He was curate or lecturer at Isleworth, probably during his brother"s incumbency (ie before 8 September 1622), and had some other minor employments before being presented in 1627 by Sir Thomas Evelyn to the rectory of Long Ditton, Surrey. In 1654 he was appointed one of the assistant commissioners for Surrey, under the ordinance of 29 June for the ejection of scandalous, &c. ministers and schoolmasters. He held his rectory until the passing of the Uniformity Acting 1662.
He retired to Mortlake, where he was in the habit of preaching twice every Sunday in his own family, and did so the Sunday before his death.
He died suddenly in December 1664, and was buried in Mortlake church.