Described as a "radical Puritan", he was unpublished in his lifetime, but more than a dozen works were put out in the five years after he died.
[3] A pupil and follower of William Perkins, he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with a B.A.
in 1597, and was elected a Fellow of Christ's College in 1600,[4] a position he lost in 1608 for non-conformity.
He was successor to Perkins as lecturer at the church of St Andrew the Great in Cambridge, opposite Christ's;[5][6] they were considered the town's leading Puritan preachers.
[7] In 1617, Baynes described the types of servitude then existing in England, from apprentices to chattel slaves born enslaved.