The earliest record of Jaye is in 1606, when the English ambassador in Brussels, Sir Thomas Edmondes, had him summoned before Jean Richardot in an attempt to have him punished by the authorities in the Low Countries for slandering James I of England.
Nether a trewe anoyntted Prince nor never was or shalbe.In 1607 Jaye opened an account with the Plantin Office as a bookseller in Brussels.
In 1619 he printed the statutes and procedures of the Great Council of Mechelen, the highest court of appeal in the Spanish Netherlands, Ordonnances, statuts, stil, et manière de procéder faictes, & décretées par le roy nostre sire, pour le grand conseil, and in the 1630s a number of sentences and decisions of the same court.
In 1620 a performance poetry competition was held in Mechelen between a number of chambers of rhetoric (civic drama guilds).
Jaye printed the competing poems and rebuses under the title De Schadt-kiste der Philosophen ende Poeten.