ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts only to add to information about Heybourne published elsewhere. Ferdinando Heybourne was born about 1560, a son of John Heybourne of Waltham, Essex. As Gresham's agent in London Candelar was concerned with marine insurance, dealt with by the Chamber of Assurance in the Royal Exchange. Possibly the book reached her or Heybourne by way of William or John Byrd, the latter of whom probably knew Candelar. Anne died in 1615 at the age of forty-four, and in the next year Heybourne married his second wife, Elizabeth. Although 'Richardson' was a name assumed by at least four generations of the Heybourne family, one wonders whether Ferdinando used it to disguise a public display, on the part of a gentleman, of accomplishments that were not entirely serious. It is not apparent what Heybourne learned from Tallis. His few surviving pieces are all for the keyboard, and are heavily indebted to William Byrd.
