biographer nonconformist minister
He was the biographer of Edmund Staunton. His family seems to have belonged to Hertfordshire. In early life he was at school in London under the Puritan John Singleton, and he entered the ministry when very young.
During the Interregnum he obtained the vicarage of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, as a successor to Edmund Staunton.
Foreign several years he also conducted a weekly lecture at Saint Mary"s, Whitechapel, London. After the Uniformity Acting of 1662 he was ejected from his living, but continued to preach in conventicles.
He was one of the few who, in 1666, took the oath which exempted from the operation of the Five Mile Acting. After the Toleration Acting (1689) his congregation moved to a newly built meeting-house in Salters" Hall Court, Cannon Street.
Here in 1694, after the exclusion of Daniel Williams, from the merchants" lectureship, a new lectureship was established (see John Howe).
Mayo was one of the lecturers. He died, after six weeks" illness, on Sunday, 8 September 1695, in his sixty-fifth year. Nathaniel Taylor, his assistant, preached his funeral sermon.
He left two sons, Richard Mayo, Doctor of Divinity, who in 1708 was minister of Saint Thomas"s Hospital, Southwark, and afterwards rector of Saint Michael"s, Crooked Lane.
And Daniel Mayo, who became better known as a minister.