JASPER HEYWOOD, S.J.
“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY
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1535
At about this point Henry Howard, Early of Surrey got married with Lady Frances de Vere, the daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and Elizabeth Trussell, Countess of Oxford. The couple would produce five children.
This would be a poor harvest year in Europe. The London Exchange began operation.
In London, John Heywood’s son Jasper Heywood was born.1 As a lad he would be page of honor to Princess Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII with Queen Consort Anne Boleyn.
NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT
1. In addition to the poet and translator Jasper Heywood, John Heywood would have a daughter named Elizabeth Heywood (Syminges), and one of his grandsons would be the poet and preacher, John Donne. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1547
At Oxford, John Warner became the 1st Professor of Medicine.
Oxford
Jasper Heywood matriculated at Merton College, Oxford.
LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.
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1553
Jasper Heywood received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Merton College, Oxford.
A Flemish woman was introducing into England the practice of starching linen.
The chartering of Christ’s Hospital, a school for poor boys at Newgate outside London.
At least by this year of King Edward VI’s reign, William Hunnis was singing in the King’s Choir while serving as one of the 32 Protestant gentleman of the Chapel Royal. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1554
During this year the Tower of London hosted the Princess Elizabeth, for a couple of months before she was relocated to Woodstock (when Queen Mary would die in 1558 this former resident of the Tower would become Queen of England). LONDON
Jasper Heywood was elected probationary fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he would distinguish himself in public and private disputations, in writing verse translations of Seneca’s dramas, and in acting as Lord of Misrule at the Christmas festivities (he was known among the students as a wild carouser).
THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1557
Christmas: At Lincoln’s Inn, Jasper Heywood was Lord of Misrule.
THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1558
England lost Calais, the last of its possessions on the mainland of Europe, and became an island nation.
Jasper Heywood, a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was compelled to resign on account of carousing, but was then elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (at the beginning of the reign of the Princess Elizabeth as Queen of England he would, for reasons of religious conscience, give up this fellowship at Alsolne Colledge in Oxenforde as well and journey to Rome, where in 1570 he would be received into the Society of Jesus).
WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF
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1559
Jasper Heywood, a fellow of All Souls College of Oxford University (Alsolne Colledge in Oxenforde), translated the Troades (“Troas,” which was what we now refer to as “The Trojan Women”), the 1st of three of the ten tragedies of Seneca the Younger that he would translate into English verse. This play had been written around 54 CE, largely based on Euripides’s The Trojan Women and Hecuba. This was the initial rendering of the material into English, and was not a straightforward translation. Heywood not only took liberties with the Latin text but also introduced material of his own creation.
Matthew Parker became Archbishop of Canterbury.
William Hunnis got married with the recently widowed Margaret Brigham. By about the middle of the year she was on her deathbed, and made him sole heir of everything she had, and executor of her will, with the exception that she left her Allmes House, the tenements and mansion house lying at Westchester, to her cousin Francis Brigham, with her husband William being allowed the use of that home for his lifetime. By the 12th of October she was dead, for that was the date on which her will was proved by Thomas Willot “procurator for William Hunnis.”2
2. It seems that this inheritance was contested by a Brigham relative and that the decision was in his favor, but that when he ousted William Hunnis from the Allmes House, Queen Elizabeth took care of the matter by the granting to her choirmaster of other patents. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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The Anglican church was restored in England and the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER was published.3
3. The edition illustrated is THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, PRINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG, OR SAID, IN CHURCHES, that would be printed by John Baskett, printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, for the University of Oxford in 1716. There is a phrase “noble army of Martyrs” in the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER that may explain Henry Thoreau’s remark about becoming willing to kill, or to die, to end enslavement. The phrase may have come into the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER from the TE DEUM, quite a bit older. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1560
Queen Elizabeth was presented with presumably the 1st pair of black silk stockings made in the West.4
(Although this English queen can be fitly acclaimed as the 1st lady to wear sexy black silk stockings of local manufacture, she has also been acclaimed as the 1st to translate Horace’s ARS POETICA into English verse. The fact of that matter, however, is that although this queen of England did prepare a full translation into English of the works of Boethius, we cannot actually say that she prepared the ARS POETICA because only fragments of such an effort still exist — it is possible that she didn’t get very far into this project and it is likely that she wouldn’t have wanted anyone to see what she had managed to complete.)
Jasper Heywood, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (Alsolne Colledge in Oxenforde), translated the Thyestes, the 2d of three of the ten tragedies of Seneca the Younger that he would translate into English verse. The play had been written at some time during the 1st Century CE. This was the initial rendering of the material into English, and was not a straightforward translation. Heywood not only took liberties with the Latin text but also introduced material of his own creation.
John Heywood’s “The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers” was printed by A. Kytson, his “Play called the foure PP; a newe and a very mery interlude of a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary, a pedler” was printed by W. Copland, and his A FOURTH HUNDRED OF EPYGRAMS was printed by T. Berthelet. HEYWOOD’S EPYGRAMS
4. Of course, instantly one wonders when presented with such Eurocentric factoids, for how many centuries such articles of apparel had been being fashioned in the East! HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1561
During Queen Elizabeth of England’s reign the guest apartments at the Tower of London would be kept full. Bishops, archbishops, knights, barons, earls and dukes would be languishing for months, some for years, in its various towers. In this year Sir Anthony Fortescue was taken to the Tower (this one would make good an escape). LONDON
Jasper Heywood, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (Alsolne Colledge in Oxenforde), translated the Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), the 3d of three of the ten tragedies of Seneca the Younger that he translated into English verse. This was the initial rendering of the material into English, and was not a straightforward translation. Heywood not only took liberties with the Latin text but also introduced material of his own creation. (His verse translations of Seneca would be supplemented by translations of other of Seneca’s ten tragedies contributed by Alexander Neville, Thomas Nuce, John Studley, and Thomas Newton, and collected by Newton in 1581 into a single edition, SENECA, HIS TENNE TRAGEDIES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLYSH (1581).
CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT
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1562
JOHN HEYWOODES WOORKES was printed by T. Powell (this did not include any of his plays), and his “A ballad against sklander & detraccion” was printed by J. Allde.
Jasper Heywood was received into the Society of Jesus at Rome, while the pope was Pius IV.
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.
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1564
Having completed two years at the Roman College, Jasper Heywood was made a professor of moral theology and controversy in the Jesuit College at Dillingen, Swabia, Bavaria. After a few years of this he would begin to complain of being in this college “a useless appendage.” Then he would enter offensively into local affairs by preaching at the court of the Duke of Bavaria that business contracts at 5% interest were usurious and illicit. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1570
Jasper Heywood took full Jesuit vows.
Early in this decade Thomas Heywood would be born, most likely in Lincolnshire, perhaps in the family of a country parson. It is not clear that he was related to John and Jasper Heywood (note that John and Jasper had been Roman Catholics, whereas Thomas was Anglican). He is said to have been educated at Cambridge University and to have become a fellow of Peterhouse College, the oldest and smallest of the schools.
The end of Round #3 of the eight Civil Wars between Huguenots and Catholics in France (characterized for some obtuse reason by historians as “Wars of Religion”):
Civil Began: Ended: War
1.) 1552 1563 2.) 1567 1568 3.) 1568 1570 4.) 1572 1573 5.) 1574 1576 6.) 1577 1577 7.) 1580 1580 8.) 1585 1589 HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1572
The beginning of Round #4 of the eight Civil Wars between Huguenots and Catholics in France (characterized for some unknown reason by historians as the “Wars of Religion”):
Civil Began: Ended: War
1.) 1552 1563 2.) 1567 1568 3.) 1568 1570 4.) 1572 1573 5.) 1574 1576 6.) 1577 1577 7.) 1580 1580 8.) 1585 1589
Early in this year reports began to circulate, that Jasper Heywood SJ, professor of moral theology and controversy in the Jesuit College at Dillingen, Swabia, Bavaria, was experiencing acute terror every night, troubled by what he termed a “demon.” The professor would be sent for a vacation at Augsburg, and by the end of the year the affliction would have waned. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1576
In this year the commercial stage was initiated in London, in the form of 1.) Burbage’s public stage in Shoreditch, in the “Liberty”5 of Norton Folgate north of the East End and just outside London’s wall, and 2.) the elite little indoor theater in the “Liberty” of Blackfriars on the city side of the wall that protected Westminster and the Inns of Court, on Fleet Street backing toward the Thames River.
John Heywood sought refuge, with his son Ellis Heywood, at the Jesuit College in Antwerp.
Richard Edwardes’s collection THE PARADYSE OF DAYNTY DEUISES APTLY FURNISHED WITH SUNDRY PITHIE AND LEARNED INVENTIONS DEUISED AND WRITTEN FOR THE MOST PART BY M. EDWARDS, SOMETIME OF HER MAIESTIES CHAPPELL, THE REST BY SUNDRY LEARNED GENTLEMEN BOTH OF HONOR AND WORSHIP, VIZ. / S. BARNARD / JASPER HEYWOOD / E.O. [presumably the Earl of Oxford] / F.K. [Francis Kinwelmarsh] / L. VAUX / M. BEW [possibly Webbe] / D.S. [possibly Dr. Edwin Sandys] / R. HILL / M. YLOOP [Pooley] WITH OTHERS (Imprinted at London by Henry Disle, dwelling in Paule’s Churchyard, at the South West Doore of St. Paule’s Church and are there to be solde), the most popular poetical miscellany of the 16th Century, comprising writers from the reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary, and the early days of Queen Elizabeth (William Hunnis is represented in this 1st edition despite the fact that his name is omitted from the title page. Ten poems by Edwardes and four by “Iasper Heyvvood” found their way into this edition.)6
5. A “Liberty” was a zone, ordinarily centuries old, originally set up to safeguard one or another religious institution from secular politics, that had by this point come to be administered by the Crown — and was thus to some extent insulated from the interference of London municipal authorities. 6. It is possible that Edwardes, at that point ten years in the grave, had compiled this manuscript. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1577
The 6th Round of the eight Civil Wars between Huguenots and Catholics in France (characterized for some ungodly reason by historians as “Wars of Religion”):
Civil Began: Ended: War
1.) 1552 1563 2.) 1567 1568 3.) 1568 1570 4.) 1572 1573 5.) 1574 1576 6.) 1577 1577 7.) 1580 1580 8.) 1585 1589
Jasper Heywood had become restive in his duties as professor of moral theology and controversy in the Jesuit College at Dillingen, Swabia, Bavaria, and the Society of Jesus was coming to consider him to represent a disciplinary problem. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1581
Summer: Father Jasper Heywood was sent to England as superior of the Jesuit mission (the leniency he displayed in regard to the ancient fast-days in this office would be found unsatisfactory by his superiors in the order, who would recall him). Thomas Newton’s SENECA, HIS TENNE TRAGEDIES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLYSH, made up of verse translations prepared by Newton, Jasper Heywood, Alexander Neville, Thomas Nuce, and John Studley. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1583
December: Jasper Heywood had been recalled as superior of the Jesuit mission in England because the leniency he exercised was unsatisfactory to his superiors in the order. On his way to the Continent a violent winter storm drove his ship back onto the English coast. He was taken by the priest-catchers and imprisoned, and examined several times by the Privy Council, but extraordinary efforts to induce him to abjure his beliefs would be unavailing. He was brought up for trial at Westminster with other priests, but before the trial finished, was taken to the Tower of London and closely imprisoned. He would be held at the Tower for seventeen months. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1584
Christmas Eve: Jasper Heywood had been incarcerated for his failure to abandon the Catholic religion, initially at Clink Prison and then in the Tower of London. Heywood was a nephew of Sir Thomas More, who suffered similarly. His sister Elizabeth Syminges brought her eldest son, the 12-year-old John Donne, and an undercover Catholic priest, William Weston, to the Tower, by passing this off as a family visit at Christmas. The priest who was with Mrs. Syminges and the young Donne wrote in his memoirs, 27 years later, that: I accompanied her [Mrs. Syminges] to the Tower, but with a feeling of great trepidation as I saw the vast battlements, and was led by the warder past the gates with their iron fastenings, which were closed behind me. So I came to the cell where the Father [Jasper Heywood, SJ] was confined. We greeted one another, and then, as was natural, exchanged the information we had about the affairs that concerned us.... At last, when I had finished talking to Father Heywood –we spent almost the whole day together– I embraced him and said goodbye. Then I returned the same way that I had come; and the moment I reached safety outside the walls I felt as if I had been restored to the light of day. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1585
January: It seems that under interrogation while being closely held in the Tower of London, Jasper Heywood provided the valuable information (or derogatory misinformation) that Robert Persons had conspired with George Gifford (a regular performer at tournaments staged by the court) to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. He was then put ashore on the coast of France along with 15 other Catholic priests, in perpetual exile from England on pain of death. He would take refuge at the Jesuit College at Dôle in Burgundy. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1589
The eight Civil Wars between Huguenots and Catholics in France, characterized for some unknown reason by historians as the “Wars of Religion,” at this point came to an end. Was everybody dead?
Civil Began: Ended: War
1.) 1552 1563 2.) 1567 1568 3.) 1568 1570 4.) 1572 1573 5.) 1574 1576 6.) 1577 1577 7.) 1580 1580 8.) 1585 1589
Jasper Heywood was sent from the Jesuit College at Dôle in Burgundy to Rome. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1598
January 9, Monday (1597, Old Style): Jasper Heywood died at the age of 63 at Naples while still in “perpetual exile from England on pain of death.” HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1841
During approximately this year Henry Thoreau made entries in his 1st Commonplace Book in regard to poems by William Collins, which he was perusing in the pages of Volume 13 of Alexander Chalmers’s THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER:
— “Eclogue II. Hassan; or the Camel-Driver” (which would appear in EXCURSIONS 139-140) — “Oriental Eclogues” — “Ode to Evening” — “Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomas” — “Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands; Considered as the Subject of Poetry”7 PERUSE VOLUME XIII WILLIAM COLLINS
We also discover a copy of Jasper Heywood’s “Looke on Yon Leafe” in these pages, although we do not know from what source Thoreau copied (it’s not in A PARADISE OF DAINTY DEVICES).
“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY
7. It should give us pause, that here we find Thoreau consulting Volume 13, a volume which we have no record of his having checked out from the library — clearly the extant record of the books Thoreau consulted, despite its impressiveness, must be merely partial. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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