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.
In: 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.
Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/15, pp. 28, 40-3, 55, 100-1.
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.
In: 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.
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.
HyJ 4
Copy of one epigram (First Hundred, No. 79).
In: 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’.
In: 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).
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.
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 in: 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.
Recorded in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E & S, 7 (1921), 108-42 (pp. 118-19).
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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.
A Brief Ballet touching the Traitorous Taking of Scarborough Castle (‘Oh, valiant invaders! gallantly gay’)
HyJ 6.5
Late 18th-century.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5.5. c.1800.
Recorded in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E & S, 7 (1921), 108-42 (pp. 118-19).
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.
HyJ 7
Copy in: A folio volume of religious poems chiefly composed and probably transcribed by the priest William Forrest. c.1581.
Edited from this MS in Milligan, pp. 250-2.
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this in Milligan
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 254.
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 261.
‘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.
In: 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.
Edited from this MS in Collier. Collated in Milligan.
HyJ 12
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Redford’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Milligan.
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.
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.
In: 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.
Edited from this MS in Milligan, pp. 252-4.
HyJ 15.8
Copy, headed ‘A discription of a most noble Ladye’.
In: 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’.
In: 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.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 9, f. 65r.
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.
HyJ 18
Copy, in a musical setting, subscribed ‘finis mr Heywood’.
In: 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.
In: 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.
See Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26 (p. 4).
‘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’.
In: the MS described under HyJ 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.
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.
In: 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.
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.
Letters
Letter(s)
*HyJ 21
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.
*HyJ 22
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.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 8/44.
Documents
Document(s)
HyJ 22.5
A contemporary copy of the grant to Heywood of Haydon Manor in 1521.
In: A small quarto volume of legal documents and precedents. Early-mid-16th century.
Edited in Robert W. Bolwell, The Life and Works of John Heywood (New York, 1921), p. 159.
*HyJ 23
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.
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.