Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hayter, Richard
HAYTER, RICHARD (1611?–1684), theological writer, born about 1611, was the son of William Hayter, fishmonger, of Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1628 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as a commoner, and graduated B.A. 26 April 1632, and M.A. 29 Jan. 1634 (Wood, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 464, 474). He returned to Salisbury, lived there as a layman, and wrote ‘The Meaning of Revelation: or, a Paraphrase with Questions on the Revelation of St. John, in which the Synchronisms of Mr. Joseph Mede, and the Expositions of other Interpreters, are called into question,’ 4to, London, 1675 (another edition, 8vo, London, 1676). In April 1683 he had ready for the press ‘Errata Mori. The Errors of Henry More contained in his Epilogue annex'd to his Exposition of the Revelation of St. John,’ &c., together with another book; but neither appears to have been printed (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 138). Hayter died on 30 June 1684, and was buried in the church of St. Thomas, Salisbury.
[Hatcher's Salisbury (in Hoare's Wiltshire), p. 628.]