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Heywood (September 1689) in connection with the case of Richard Dugdale [q.v.], known as the ‘Surey demoniac.’ It is clear that he originally believed in the reality of Dugdale's possession, yet in the subsequent defence of the ministers concerned he took no part.

The London agreement (1691) between the presbyterians and congregationalists, known as the ‘happy union,’ was introduced into Yorkshire mainly through Heywood's influence. On 2 Sept. 1691 he preached in Mrs. Kirby's house at Wakefield to twenty ordained and four licensed preachers of the two denominations, and the ‘heads of agreement’ were adopted. The meeting was the first of a series of assemblies of nonconformist divines of the West Riding, at which preaching licenses were granted and ordinations arranged.

The last ten years of Heywood's life were somewhat troubled by symptoms of declining orthodoxy in some of his coadjutors. He maintained his own evangelistic work with unimpaired vigour till the close of 1699. In 1700 his health broke; asthma confined him to Northowram. From 5 Dec. 1701 he was carried to his meeting-house in a chair. He died at Northowram on Monday, 4 May 1702, and was buried in a side chapel of Halifax Church, known as ‘Holdsworth's works,’ in his mother's grave. There is no monument there to his memory, but in Northgate End Chapel, Halifax, is a memorial slab erected by a descendant. A good engraving of his portrait is given in the second edition of Palmer's ‘Nonconformist's Memorial.’ He married, first, on 24 April 1655, at Denton, Elizabeth (d. 26 May 1661, aged 27), daughter of John Angier, by whom he had three sons: John, born 18 April 1656, minister at Rotherham and Pontefract, died 6 Sept. 1704; Eliezer, born 18 April 1657, minister at Wallingwells, Nottinghamshire, and Dronfield, Derbyshire, died 20 May 1730; Nathaniel, born 7 Aug. and died 24 Aug. 1659. He married, secondly, on 27 June 1667, at Salford, Abigail, daughter of James Crompton of Breightmet in the parish of Bolton, Lancashire; she died without issue in 1707.

Heywood's ‘Works’ were collected by Richard Slate, Idle, 1825–7, 8vo, 5 vols.; the collection is complete with the exception of one or two prefaces from his pen. Among his best publications are: 1. ‘Heart Treasure,’ &c., 1667, 8vo; 2nd part, 1672, 8vo. 2. ‘Closet Prayer,’ &c., 1671, 8vo. 3. ‘Life in God's Favour,’ &c., 1679, 8vo. 4. ‘Baptismal Bonds Renewed,’ &c., 1687, 8vo. 5. ‘The Best Entail,’ &c., 1693, 8vo. 6. ‘A Family Altar,’ &c., 1693, 8vo. 7. ‘A Treatise of Christ's Intercession,’ &c., Leeds, 1701, 8vo. Most of his books are on topics of practical religion, and he sent them out in large quantities among his friends for free distribution. For his inner life the best authority is the series of his ‘Diaries,’ edited, with other papers, by J. Horsfall Turner, Brighouse, 1881–5, 8vo, 4 vols. His registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, edited, with those of his successor, Thomas Dickenson, by J. Horsfall Turner, under the title of ‘The Nonconformist Register,’ Brighouse, 1881, 8vo, are of great biographical value. Hunter thinks that Calamy's accounts of Lancashire and Yorkshire ministers are mainly based on Heywood's information; in 1695 and 1696 he drew up many biographical notices of nonconformist divines.

[Heywood's life has been written by John Fawcett, D.D., 1796, and Richard Slate, in Works, 1825; these biographies are superseded by Joseph Hunter's Rise of the Old Dissent, exemplified in the Life of O. H., 1842, a work written with controversial aim, but based on original materials, and full of curious information. Earlier notices are in Calamy's Account, 1713, pp. 804 sq., and Calamy's Continuation, 1727, ii. 947; reproduced, with additions, in Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial, 1803, iii. 423 sq. See also Miall's Congregationalism in Yorkshire, 1868, pp. 61 sq., 325 sq., and Turner's edition of the Diaries, &c., ut supra.]  HEYWOOD, PETER (1773–1831), captain in the navy, son of Peter John Heywood, deemster of the Isle of Man, was born at the Nunnery, near Douglas, 6 June 1773. He entered the navy in October 1786 on board the Bounty discovery ship, and sailed in her on the voyage to Tahiti [see ; ;, 1760?–1829]. When the mutiny broke out on 28 April 1789, Heywood was confined by the mutineers, but was allowed to come on deck when the launch was ready to receive Bligh and his party. The boat, however, could not hold them all, and Heywood with some others was left behind, Bligh probably thinking that a boy of his tender years would only be an encumbrance. When the mutineers split into two parties at Tahiti, Heywood was one of those who remained there; and when, on 23 March 1791, the Pandora, under the command of Captain Edward Edwards, arrived in search of the mutineers, Heywood with Stewart, a fellow-midshipman, at once went off to her in a canoe. They were immediately put in irons; and the others at Tahiti having been apprehended, they were all, to the number of fourteen, thrust, handcuffed and heavily ironed, into a sort of cage eleven feet long, built on the after part of the quarter-deck, to which air and light were ad-