HAYWARD (Sir John), an eminent English historian and biographer in the beginning of the 17th century, was educated in the university of Cambridge, where he took the degree of doctor of laws. In 1610, he was appointed one of the historiographers of a college then at Chelsea; and, in 1619, received the honour of knighthood. He wrote, 1. The lives of the three Norman kings of England, William I. and II. and Henry I. 2. The first part of the life and reign of king Henry IV. 3. The life and reign of king Edward VI.; and several theological works. He died in 1627.