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He wrote a pamphlet entitled On a Cheap and Expeditious Method of Draining Land, which was published in Alexander Hunter's Georgical Essays, vol. iv. (1772), and vol. i. (1803). He was also the author of Observations on the General Highway and Turnpike Acts, 1773. Bayley was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1773.
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He contributed A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk to the Survey issued by the Board of Agriculture in 1794 (and supplementary remarks, Norwich, 1796), and papers in Alexander Hunter's Georgical Essays, York, 1803. Details on the king's farm, communicated by him to the Society of Arts in 1798, were subsequently published as a pamphlet.
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Three octavo volumes of papers contributed to the Agricultural Society were published under his editorship, and he wrote a few of the articles. His papers On the Origin and Progress of Agriculture and The Natural History of the Cockchafer were reprinted in the Georgical Essays of Alexander Hunter, and that on the cockchafer also appeared in the Annual Register for 1784–5, pp. 38–9. The second edition of Caspipina's Letters, by the Rev. Jacob Duché, was edited by him in 1777, and he appended to it a brief account of William Penn.
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In 1771 Bentinck sent Speechly on a tour of gardens in Holland where it is thought he learned about the design of stoves for hothouses, which he later improved on. In 1776 Bentinck asked him to write a description of the method of planting trees on the Nottinghamshire estates for Alexander Hunter's edition of John Evelyn's Silva. This later appeared as an article in Hunter's Georgical Essays (1803), in which Speechly also contributed a note on the possibility of raising pineapples. Speechly established the first effective system for the cultivation of pineapples in England.
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His first literary venture was a small tract in 1764, an ‘Essay on the Nature and Virtues of the Buxton Waters,’ which went through six editions. The last appeared in 1797 under the name of ‘The Buxton Manual.’ In 1806 he published a similar work on the ‘Waters of Harrowgate,’ York. He took an active part in founding the Agricultural Society at York in 1770, ‘and to give respectability to the institution, he prevailed on the members to reduce their thoughts and observations into writing.’ These essays, on the food of plants, composts, &c.;, were edited by him in four volumes (London, 1770–2), under the title of ‘Georgical Essays,’ and were so much valued as to be reprinted three times (once at London and twice at York) before 1803. His ‘New Method of Raising Wheat for a Series of Years on the Same Land’ appeared in 1796, York. His continued interest in rural economy was shown in an elaborate illustrated edition, with notes, of John Evelyn's Sylva, 1776 (reprinted in 1786, in 2 vols.
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