Folger Shakespeare Library
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John Heywood

1496/7–1580?

Introduction

Only a very few examples of John Heywood's handwriting survive. The most important are two letters written in his old age to Lord Burghley (*HyJ 21-22). There are also signatures by him on a lease and a will (HyJ 23-24).

Reed believed that these examples showed that the extant manuscript of Heywood's play Wytty and Wytless (HyJ 20) was also in his hand, but in fact a close comparison shows this not to be so. The hand in the latter has peculiar characteristics not shared by Heywood and (less important) his name is also spelled differently from the other signatures.

A few of Heywood's poems and epigrams appear in sixteenth- or seventeenth-century manuscript copies, but since his epigrams were readily available in several printed editions they were not a popular choice for manuscript miscellanies. Of these the most important is British Library Add. MS 15233, a mid-sixteenth-century volume of works by Heywood, John Redford, and others, evidently produced by someone close to the Redford-Heywood circle. It includes a number of poems ascribed to Heywood which were not published in his lifetime, but were first printed in Halliwell (1848).

Heywood's non-dramatic works have been edited in Milligan (1956); various other works have been edited by John S. Farmer in The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood (London, 1905; reprinted 1966) and in The Spider and the Fly (London, 1908; reprinted 1966).

An item not given an entry is a couplet ascribed to Hewodd in a miscellany of the 1590s compiled by John Lilliat, now in the Bodleian (MS Rawl. poet. 148, f. 3r). The couplet, which does not appear to be among Heywood's published epigrams, is headed of ffeasters and begins One fat feeder, an other feedeth in fine feast.

Two of Heywood's poems can also be found in a miscellany in the Folger (MS V.a.339, ff. 109r, 118v): A Song in praise of a Ladie (Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone) and What hart can thynk or toong expres. The copies are, however, forgeries by J.P. Collier: see Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 4).

Abbreviations

Halliwell
The Moral Play of Wit and Science and Early Poetical Miscellanies from an Unpublished Manuscript, ed. James Orchard Halliwell [later Halliwell-Phillipps], Shakespeare Society (London, 1848).
Milligan
John Heywood, Works and Miscellaneous Short Poems, ed. Burton A. Milligan (Urbana, 1956).

Verse

(1) Proverbs and Epigrams

A dialogue conteynyng the number of thê effectuall prouerbes in the English tounge

First published London, 1546. Milligan, pp. 17-101. Ed. Rudolph E. Habenicht (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1963).

HyJ 1

Twenty quarto leaves containing extracts from the 1576 edition of Heywood's Woorkes, in a single secretary hand, bound at the end of a printed exemplum of that edition, in modern black calf gilt.

c.1577-1600

Later owned by George Spencer (1766-1840), Marquess of Blandford and fifth Duke of Marlborough, book collector, of White Knights, near Reading; George Hibbert (1757-1837), West India merchant; T. D. C. Graham; M. Ogle & Son, Glasgow, booksellers; McLeish, sale catalogue No. 114, item 161.

Epigrams

First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.

HyJ 2

Copy of 34 epigrams (First Hundred, Nos 20, 21, 35, 53, 59, 62, 68, 72, 79, 83; Three Hundred, Nos 59, 169; Fifth Hundred, Nos 12, 21, 33, 36, 44, 49, 57, 60, 62, 68, 72, 74, 87, 99, 108, 114, 186, 192, 212, 226, 236, and 272), not in sequence.

A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

HyJ 3

Copy of eight epigrams, headed Epigramis of mr Haywood, comprising First Hundred, Nos 11, 25, 38, 39, 42; Fifth Hundred, No. 2; and Sixth Hundred, Nos 96, 100; also a deleted copy of a ninth epigram (Sixth Hundred, No. 98), written in the middle of a copy of Sir David Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.

A sixt hundred of Epigrammes first published in Woorkes (London, 1562); Milligan, pp. 225-48. Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 450-2, 456-7; IV, 1079; The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, III, STS NS 23 (Edinburgh & London, 1928), 74-6, 79-81, 130.

A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt.

Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page finis. / 1568 but probably written over a period of some years.

c.1568

Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) This book is gifted to Mr William Carmichael Be me James Foulis. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.

Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.

National Library of Scotland, Advocates MSS (Adv. MS 1.1.6 Vol. I, ff. 159r-v, 161r-v, 177r (pp. 377-8, 381-2, 413))
HyJ 4

Copy of one epigram (First Hundred, No. 79).

A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf.

c.1630

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the Bishop MS: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

(2) Songs and Ballads

'All a gene wyllow is my garland'

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 86-8. Milligan, pp. 257-9.

HyJ 5

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Jhon Heywood.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

A ballad against slander and detraction

See HyJ 8.

A Ballad specifying partly the Manner, partly the Matter, in the … Marriage between … the King's and Queen's Highness ('The eagle bird hath spread his wings')
HyJ 5.5

Copy.

Recorded in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E & S, 7 (1921), 108-42 (pp. 118-19).

A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806).

c.1800

Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.

Discussed in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow (SR 241 308897 [unspecified page numbers])
'Be merye, frendes, take ye no thowghte'

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 104-6. Milligan, pp. 259-61.

HyJ 6

Copy, untitled, subscribed finis qd mr Haywood.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

A Brief Ballet touching the Traitorous Taking of Scarborough Castle ('Oh, valiant invaders! gallantly gay')
HyJ 6.5 Late 18th-century

Copy.

Recorded in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E & S, 7 (1921), 108-42 (pp. 118-19).

A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806).

c.1800

Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.

Discussed in G. Neilson, A Bundle of Ballads, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow (SR 241 308897 [unspecified page numbers])
A discription of a most noble Ladye ('Geue place, ye ladyes, all bee gone')

First published (?) in The Proverbs, Epigrams and Miscellanies of John Heywood, ed. John S. Farmer (London, 1906).

See also HyJ 15-16.

'Gar call hym downe'

First published as a broadside entitled A ballad against sklander and detraccion (London, [1562]). Milligan, pp. 236-7.

HyJ 8

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynis qd Jhon Heywood.

Edited from this in Milligan

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

'I desyre no number of manye thynges for store'

First published (from this MS) in Halliwell (1848), pp. 61-2.

HyJ 9

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffynis qd Jhon Heywoode.

Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 254.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

'Yf loue for loue of long tyme had'

First published (from this MS) in Halliwell (1848), pp. 106-7.

HyJ 10

Copy, plus the first stanza mistakenly copied in Be merye, frendes (see HyJ 6) and deleted, untitled, subscribed ffnis qd mr Haywood.

Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 261.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

'Long haue I bene a singynge man'

First published in John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration (London, 1831), I, pp. 70, 72. Milligan, pp. 275-7. Possibly written by John Redford.

HyJ 11

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed finis mr Haywoode. Mid-16th century.

Edited from this MS in Collier. Collated in Milligan.

A quarto composite volume of prose works, verse and ballads, in various hands, 205 leaves, partly on vellum, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Henry Savile: i.e. ? Henry Savile (1568-1617), of Banke, manuscript collector, and Ex dono John Anstis Arm.: i.e. John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms, antiquary.

The British Library: Cotton MSS (Cotton MS Vespasian A. XXV ff. 132v-3v)
HyJ 12

Copy, untitled, subscribed John Redford.

Edited from this MS in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

'Man, for thyne yll lyfe formerly'

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 77-8. Milligan, pp. 255-6.

HyJ 13

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Jhon Heywood.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

'Man, yf thow mynd heuen to obtayne'

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 118-19. Milligan, pp. 268-9.

HyJ 14

Copy, untitled, subscribed finis qd Jhon Haywoode.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

A song in praise of a Ladie ('Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone')

First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

See also HyJ 7.

HyJ 15

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Milligan, pp. 252-4.

A quarto miscellany of largely religious ballads, in one or possibly more cursive secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern half black morocco.

c.early 1600s

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 188.

HyJ 15.8

Copy, headed A discription of a most noble Ladye.

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) Joseph Hall (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue of English Literature (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

HyJ 16

Copy, in triple columns, headed In praise of a gentlewoma.

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 283 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Compiled principally by one Jo. Tempest.

Mid-17th century

Inscribed inside the front cover G. J. Farsyde Fylingdales in Whitby 1826 / These M S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde. Peter Murray Hill, sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 22.

'What hart can thynk or toong expres'

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 79-80. Milligan, pp. 256-7.

HyJ 17

Copy, untitled, subscribed ffinis qd Jhon Heywood.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

HyJ 18

Copy, in a musical setting, subscribed finis mr Heywood.

A folio volume, comprising a copy of Francis Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England (1601) and (f. 58r onwards) verses and music, in a single neat secretary hand, 68 leaves, in calf gilt.

Early 17th century

Presented on 28 August 1767 by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and patron of science (constituting Volume XLIV of the Banks collections).

HyJ 18.5

A forgery by J.P. Collier.

See Giles E. Dawson, John Payne Collier's Great Forgery, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 4).

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked).

Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph.

c.1630s-40s

Inscribed Jane Wheeler and Tho: Oliver Busfield. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A Jo. Wheeler signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the Wheeler MS: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

'Ye be wellcum, ye be wellcum'

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 111-13. Milligan, pp. 261-3.

HyJ 19

Copy, untitled, subscribed fynis qd Jhon Haywood.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials S B on both covers.

c.1530s-40s

Scribbling (f. 63v) including Mr Heyborne [possibly Edward Heyborn].and Ann Chuntle is my name. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

Dramatic Works

Wytty and Wytless

First published in London, 1846, edited by F.W. Fairholt, Percy Society. R. de la Bère, John Heywood Entertainer (London, 1937), pp. 115-43.

HyJ 20

Copy, in a rugged secretary hand, subscribed John Heywod, imperfect and lacking a title.

Edited from this MS in Fairholt and in la Bère. Complete facsimile edition in Tudor Facsimile Texts (London, 1909). A facsimile of part of the last page is also in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), facing p. 124.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, including that of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian, 192 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather gilt.

Letters

Letter(s)
*HyJ 21
Autograph

Autograph letter signed by Heywood, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 18 April 1575.

1575

Edited in A. W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, with a facsimile example facing p. 124.

National Archives, Kew (SP 12/24/17)
*HyJ 22
Autograph

Autograph letter signed, to Lord Burghley, written by Heywood in his seventy-ninth year (1576?).

Edited in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 237-8.

1576?

Printed in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, 237-8, with a facsimile of part of the first letter facing p. 124.

Documents

Document(s)
HyJ 22.5

A contemporary copy of the grant to Heywood of Haydon Manor in 1521.

Edited in Robert W. Bolwell, The Life and Works of John Heywood (New York, 1921), p. 159.

A small quarto volume of legal documents and precedents.

Early-mid-16th century
*HyJ 23
Autograph

Heywood's signature on a lease, 20 February 1538/9.

1539

Discussed in A. W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, 237-8, with a facsimile example facing p. 124.

National Archives, Kew (Conventual Leases (Essex 46))
HyJ 24

The will of Margaret Cox (John Redford's sister) signed by John Heywood as a witness, 30 September 1556.

1556

Possibly now transferred to London Metropolitan Archives.

Discussed in Arthur Brown, Two Notes on John Redford, MLR, 43 (1948), 508-10.

St Paul's Cathedral (Vol. A, f. 117r)

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