 He had also made considerable progress on a complete parliamentary history of England, and for this he obtained copious abstracts of the returns to parliament, 1702–10, from the original records in the Rolls Chapel.This manuscript, together with a collection of charters, letters patent, and other documents illustrative of local history, in three folio volumes, was afterwards deposited in the British Museum (now British Library).In September 1824, Bayley married Sophia Anne, daughter of the Right Hon.