Heylin (or Heylyn), Peter (1600–1662)

English writer and cleric. His works number more than 50 and are chiefly theological and controversial. He belonged to the High Church party and wrote Ecclesia Vindicata: or the Church of England Justified 1657, Ecclesia Restaurata, or the History of the Reformation 1661, and Aerius Redivivus: or the History of the Presbyterians 1670.

He was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, and graduated at Oxford. Through the influence of William Laud, in 1630 he became chaplain to Charles I. He was deprived of all religious offices during the Commonwealth, but at the Restoration was made subdean of Westminster.