and his library dispersed. Subsequently he led for some years a wandering life of poverty, afterwards settling at Winchester and then at Minster Lovel in Oxfordshire; and he refers to his hardships in his pamphlet "Extraneus Vapulans," the cleverest of his controversial writings, which was written in answer to Hamon l'Estrange. In 1653 he settled at Lacy's Court, Abingdon, where he resided undisturbed by the government of the Commonwealth, and where he wrote several books and pamphlets, both against those of his own communion, like Thomas Fuller, whose opinions were less unyielding than his own, and against the Presbyterians and others, like Richard Baxter. His works, all of which are marred by political or theological rancour, number over fifty. Among the most important are: a legendary and learned _History of St. George of Cappadocia_, written in 1631; _Cyprianus Anglicus, or the history of the Life and Death of William Laud_, a defence of Laud and a valuable authority for his life; _Ecclesia restaurata, or the History of the Reformation of the Church of England_ (1661; ed. J. C. Robertson, Cambridge, 1849); _Ecclesia vindicata, or the Church of England justified_; _Aerius redivivus, or History of the Presbyterians_; and _Help to English History_, an edition of which, with additions by P. Wright, was published in 1773. In 1636 he wrote a _History of the Sabbath_, by order of Charles I. to answer the Puritans; and in consequence of a journey through France in 1625 he wrote _A Survey of France_, a work, frequently reprinted, which was termed by Southey "one of the liveliest books of travel in its lighter parts, and one of the wisest and most replete with information that was ever written by a young man." Some verses of merit also came from his active pen, and his poetical memorial of William of Waynflete was published by the Caxton Society in 1851. Heylyn was a diligent writer and investigator, a good ecclesiastical lawyer, and had always learning at his command. His principles, to which he was honestly attached, were defended with ability; but his efforts to uphold the church passed unrecognized at the Restoration, probably owing to his physical infirmities. His sight had been very bad for several years; yet he rejoiced that his "bad old eyes" had seen the king's return, and upon this event he preached before a large audience in Westminster Abbey on the 29th of May 1661. He died on the 8th of May 1662 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where he had been sub-dean for some years. Lives of Heylyn were written by his son-in-law Dr John Barnard or Bernard, and by George Vernon (1682). Bernard's work was reprinted with Robertson's edition of Heylyn's _History of the Reformation_ in 1849.