Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haynes, Samuel
HAYNES, SAMUEL (d. 1752), historical writer, was the son of Hopton Haynes [q. v.] He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1723. He proceeded M.A. in 1727 and D.D. in 1748. For some time he travelled as tutor to James Cecil, sixth earl of Salisbury, who in 1737 presented him to the valuable rectory of Hatfield. In 1743 he became canon of Windsor, and in 1747 rector of Clothall, Hertfordshire, holding both livings until his death, which took place on 9 June 1752. Haynes was for some years engaged in preparing an edition of the valuable State Papers (preserved at Hatfield) which dealt with the career of William Cecil, lord Burghley. Oldys wrote in his ‘Diary’ on 5 Feb. 1737–8 that Haynes was then engaged on the work, ‘that he had two or three transcribers at work,’ and ‘intended to publish a volume at a time.’ On 26 March following Oldys discussed the work at Ames's house, and was invited to assist in the undertaking, but declined on the ground that many papers were to be ‘stifled’ because they dealt too freely with Elizabeth's ‘girlish frolics’ (Oldys, Diary, pp. 19, 26). The original design seems to have been to bring the work down to 1612. But Haynes completed only one volume, which was published, by subscription, under the title, ‘Collection of State Papers relating to Affairs in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, from 1542 to 1570. Transcribed from the Original Letters and other Authentick Memorials left by W. Cecill, Lord Burghley, and now remaining at Hatfield House,’ London, 1740, fol. An edition by William Murdin, in 2 vols. fol., which brought the date of the published papers down to 1596, appeared in 1759.
[Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, ii. 364, iii. 505; Le Neve's Fasti Angl. iii. 408; Cooper's Mem. of Cambr. i. 228; Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xvii. 269; Grad. Cantabr. p. 225; Watt's Bibl. Brit. i. 478; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. ii. 140; Gent. Mag. 1752, p. 289; Hist. MSS. Comm. Cal. of the MSS. at Hatfield House, pt. i. introd. p. vii.]