ABSTRACT
The fame of John Heywood rests chiefly on his work as a playwright, poet and epigrammatist. His work as a singer and keyboard player has generally taken second place, probably because there is little tangible evidence of it. This chapter focuses on additional material concerning Heywood's connections with St Thomas's Chapel, St Paul's Cathedral and the church and parish of St Mary-at-Hill. On 25th 1539 'Master Incent' of St Paul's delegated to Heywood the authority to induct John Angell, later to be the Subdean of the Chapel Royal. A list of the petty canons of St Paul's was copied on 30th September 1553, and while the date of its original compilation is open to question indicates that Heywood was at some time Warden of the College of Minor Canons. By 1564 Heywood found the pressure on Catholics too great for comfort, and left for the Low Countries on 20 July of that year.
