John Bayley, London silversmith. Apprenticed to William Richards on 2nd April, 1729. Turned over to John Betts on 27th February, 1735. Free 6th September, 1743. Livery 1750. Mark entered as largeworker 1751. Address: Wood Street, where Heal records him as plateworker, at no. 106 from 1751 to 1781. Appears as goldsmith at Wood Street, in the Parl. An alternative identification is as son of Richard Bayley, apprenticed to James Smith 1732, and turned over to his father, freedom unrecorded.