HEYWOOD, Peter (d.1642), of King Street East, Westminster
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Family and Education
2nd s. of Peter Heywood of Heywood Hall, Lancs. and Margaret, da. of Roger Gartsyde of Ewood Hall, Lancs. m. (1) w. unknown, s.p.; (2) by 1616, Elizabeth, da. of one Thirrall of Leeds, at least 3s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Iter Lancastrense: A Poem, 1636 ed. R. James, (Chetham Soc. vii), 22; Rev. Oliver Heywood, BA, 1630-1702; His Autobiog. ed. J. Horsfall Turner, i. 118; PROB 11/188, ff. 31v-2; Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke, 92, 101, 108, 116, 125, 135.bur. 18 Jan. 1642 18 Jan. 1642.Memorials of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 600.
Offices Held
Overseer of the poor, St. Margaret’s, Westminster 1607–8, WCA, E149 (1607–8 acct.) unfol. asst. burgess by 1610, WCA, WCB1, p. 1. churchwarden 1616 – 18, 1622–4, WCA, E150 (1616–17 acct.), f. 1; E151 (1617–18 acct.), f. 1; E13 (1622–4 accts.), unfol. vestryman by 1622, WCA, E2413, unfol. trustee of poor by 1637; WAM, lease bk. xv. f. 128. commr. (and treas.) sewers, Westminster by 1611-at least 1634; LR7/14, pt. 2, no. 13; E403/2733, f. 22; C181/4, f. 191 collector subsidy, Westminster 1624, Forced Loan 1626–7; E115/296/103; APC, 1626, p. 321. j.p. Westminster 1625–d.; C231/4, f. 191; D’Ewes ed. W. Notestein, 53. gov. Co. of tradesmen in London and Westminster 1636; V. Pearl, London and Outbreak of Puritan Rev. 34. commr. charitable uses, Mdx. 1637-at least 1639, C192/1, unfol. subsidy, Westminster 1641. E115/303/51.