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Baynes, secretary to Cardinal Allen, was born in England in 1546.
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Roger Baynes
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In that year he accompanied Doctor Allen to Rome, and when that divine was raised to the cardinalate he became his secretary and major-domo. After the cardinal"s death he gave himself up to religious exercises. He died on 9 October 1623, and was buried in the English college at Rome, where a monument to his memory was erected.
The epitaph styles him "nobilis Anglus", and states that "ex testamento centum montium loca in pios usus reliquit, prout ex actis daughter
Michaelis Angeli Cesi notarij constat". He is the author of two excessively rare works, the first of which is entitled: The Praise of Solitarinesse, Secretariat down in the forme of a Dialogue, Wherein is conteyned a Discourse Philosophical of the lyfe Actiue and Contemplatiue.
Imprinted at London by Francis Coldocke and Henry Bynneman, 1577. Qui nihil sperat, Nihil desperat.
4to. The second is The Baynes of Aqvisgrane, The I. Participant & I. Volume, intitvled Variety.
Contayning Three Bookes, in the forme of Dialogues, vnder the Titles following, Videlicet Profit, Pleasvre, Honovr. Furnished with diuers things no lesse delightfull then beneficiall to be knowne and obserued.
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Baynes Gent. a long Exile out of England, not for any temporall respects. Qui nihil sperat nihil desperat. Printed at Augusta in Germany, M.DC.XVII., 4to.
A notice from the printer to the reader informs us that ‘this present Volume, and the rest that are to follow, though they have not come to the Presse till now, yet haue they byn written some yeares ago, in the tyme of the late Queene Elizabeth.’ Only the first book Of Profit appears to have been printed.
