"I am my own secretary," he writes; "I make my own notes.

I am my own librarian." But forty-five works remained after his death to attest his prodigious industry.

In his own eyes and those of his contemporaries the most important among these were the commentaries and homilies upon various books of the Bible which he had drawn from the writings of the Fathers.
But he was far from confining himself to theology.

In treatises compiled as textbooks for his scholars, Baeda threw together all that the world had then accumulated in astronomy and meteorology, in physics and music, in philosophy, grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, medicine.

But the encyclopaedic character of his researches left him in heart a simple Englishman.