127 _ Jfriba , Auguzt 9th, 1907 . NOTES. [299 .1 THE HEYWOODS OF HEYWOOD . THE FAMILY IN THE ISLE OF MAN . SOME FURTHER NOTES . To supplement and correct the article from the "Manx Note Book," printed at No . 297, let me offer the following brief notes :- First as to the date of the Heywood char- ter, I would refer the reader to the note een- tribu,ted to this column by Dr. Hunt, a few months--ago . The assertion that "Peter Hey- wood, who died in 1657, was sixteenth in descent from Piers, living 1164," is not, I think, strictly correct, the pedigree from which that statement is taken being not quite ecmplete . Most of the sons and daughters of Gover- nor Heywood were buried, married, and bap- tised in Kirk Malew, and their names entered in the parish registers . During a recent stay at the Isle of Man, I viuited this old church . My visit was really a pilgrimage . Not an affectionate pilgrimage, not a religious pil- grimage, merely a pilgrimage of idle curiosity! I had seen this place mentioned so often in the Heywood pedigree that I thought I would like to see it. After looking up the locality on the map, I started off one fine morning in early June-fine, for the bad weather of that awful month had not yet commenced . Leav- ing Peel, changing trains at Douglas, and dis- mounting at - Ballasalla was the first part of my journey . Near Ballasalla stands Rushen Abbey, now only a few bare ruins, a tower, a Crypt, and a remnant of the -walls . After a peep round, off I set to walk to Malew, a few miles away . Soon I came upon a white- washed barn, or so it looked : this was Malew Church, the Kirk Malew of the "Worshipfull Governour Heywood" and his family. I strolled up through the churchyard and among the old gravestones, reading their quaint inscriptions-records of unknown men 128 and women, bodies washed up on the dan- gerous rocks of Langness and the Calf, records of captains of ill-fated vessels . Vanitas vanitatum. Well, to pass on, and after this little bit of cheap sentiment to describe the church. It is not much like what one gener- ally imagines a church to be . It is a plain building, whitened, if I remember rightly, with a small bell tower at one end . I came across a labourer, and together we entered the church . There I saw men digging up the floor. They were putting in a new organ, and to do that had to dig deep down for the foundations. I stood and watched them . I Every moment they unearthed bones, human bones, skulls, ribs, leg bones, and the like . Again Vanitas. I wondered whether any of these gruesome relics of they past were remains of Heywoodites. They were sermons in bones . V bile I was looking at these the Vicar of the parish entered . He told me that this part of the building where the men were excavating was before 1666 the chancel of the church and that in the burial registers there were many entries of people having been interred "in ye chancel." So the Heywoods could net have been buried ,here . He did not know of any monuments relating to the family, but there were entries in the regis- ters . Then he took me round the church, showed me the monuments to the {oldie Taubman family who succeeded Peter John Heywood as Speakers of the House of Keys and who originally came from near Malew ; a Runic cross, one of the very many of the Island, with large pieces chipped aff, my reverend informant told me, for mementoes by the vandals of old- and many other curiosities . I could write much more of this ancient and very interesting church, but time and space are against me . Rather a surprise and a disappointment overtook me now. I had planned from the map that my day's tour should end at Castle- town, taking the midday meal at Malew . When I arrived at the church I looked around for a village. There wasn't any, but to make up I made sundry remaf'ks about maps and, 129 the makers of guide books . The neatest town was Castletown, said a boy, and then I learnt what explained a good deal, that Malew was the parish church of a large district in- cluding the former capital of the isle, Castle- town . So my dinner had to wait till late in the afternoon hen, hungry and I confess a trifle tired, I walked the streets of Castle- town . I give below some extracts from the regis- ters of Kirk Malew relating to the Heywoods . A` the time to which most of the entries re- late the incumbent was a very curious man . He has left in the register many quaint notes with no reference at all to marriages or burials or births, but notes referring to harvesting, local events, bad weather, and the misdoings of his curates . These make the records very quaint reading . The following will not re- quire any remark, as they have been dealt with in Mr . Heywood's pedigree, and the Manx article : - 1678 . Robt : Heywood Esquire and Gover- nour of the Isle was married to Ellinor. .[word illegible] (as then reported) November 14th, 1678 . 1679. Heywood son to Robt. Esquire, governor of the Isle and Ellen his wife C baptized Aug . 26th . 1680 . Ellinr - Haywood, daughter to Robeart Esquire (and Ellin his wife) Governor of the Isle baptized September 13th Anne predicto [the aforesaid year] . 1680 .' Capt : Peter Haywood buried in the grave of Governour Gre•e nehalgh his grandfather in the ohancle of Kk . Mallew ffebruairie 5th . 1683 . Cathrin Haywood daughter to Gover- nor Haywood Enquire buried September the first. 1684 . James the 2th was proclaimed Kinge of Great Brittaine ffrance and Ireland Defender of the faith on the 12th day of March, 1684 . In Ctastletowne att• the Oross by the Right Worpll . Re : Hey- wood, Esqr . Governor of the Isle and all the officers; Spia .il . and tempall . Cl'ergie and 24 keyes Captaines and officers of VOL. 3.-Part- 33. P 1 30 Every pish. i n the Isle with great eon gratulacons and repeated aodamaoons . Crowned at London April 3th 1685. 1685. Margtt . Heywood daughter to the Right Worpll . Robt . Esquire Governor of the Isle buried by [beside] her Uncle Capt : Peter [see ante] in the Chancle of Kk. Mallew June 19th. 1085. Jaine Haywood, infantt daughter to i Governor Haywood Esquire buried No. 7emb : 8th. 1686. Bapt : Heywood son to Ro : Hey- wood Esquire Governor of the Isle bapt 7ber 21th . 1686. Mr. Rich . Stevenson of Bailey doole and Mm . Alice Haywood Daughter to Robt. Haywood Esqr. Governr . married Nov. ye 7th. 1690[-1]. Robert Heywood Esquire Governor of the Isle after a very sore sickness wth very great paine died about two of the Clock in the inorninge upon Wednesday r the seventh of Janu,arie and buried in the Chaple of Castletowne on f'riday after Jan . 9th [see below] . 1691. Robt . and David Heywood twins and posthuntes sons to Governor Heywood and Ellin his wife bapt : Aug. 28th. 1691. - It is deposed by Mr. Robt . Quaile Curatt . that Mr. David Genkins and Mrs . Mary Haywood were married by him August last 24th day 1691 . Major Rich Stevenson and wife present and not more . [Editor's note .-T'he above entry is made in January, 1691-2 . It would appear therefore that the master of the Grammar School had been clandet~,:nely married by the curate of the parish a__d that the vicar was kept in ignorance of the fact until some five months afterwards when the curate calmly "deposed" to it .] 1692. William Genkins son to Mr . David Schoolmaster of the free School and Mrs . Mary Heywood his wife baptized June 2th, 1692 .-,Baptist Haywood son to Robt. Heywood Esquire laic Governor buried in his uncles grave in the Charade of Kk . Mallew Aprill 12th . I 131 1692. David Heywood son to Governor Hey- wood deceased buried with the rest of the children in the Chancee of Kk . Mallew on 9ber 23 1692 . 1694. Richard Scaufield son to John Scau- field, Quaker, was baptised ffebr . 7th, 1694. Sr . Cleve Moore Major Peter Hey- wood were godfathers and Mrs . Leonora Heywood the godmother. 1696. Nicholas son of Major Peter Hey- wood was baptized June 16th . 1699. Major Peter Heywood was buried in ye Chancel, July 27th . His ffather the late Governor Heywoods coffin being re- moved from ye old Chappel in Town and interr'd in the same grave with him . QUINCUNX . lribaV, August 23rD, 1907 . NOTES. [300 .] THE HEY-WOODS OP HEYWOOD. THE FAMILY IN THE ISLE OF MAN . (SOME FURTHER NOTES .) The following item I find I omitted from the extracts from the registers in my last notes 1700. Capt . John Wood and Mrs . Leonora He ywood were married at the Nunnery, the 19th August, 1700, the Right Honble Wm. Earl of Derby being present . 41, The Nunnery, still one of the show places of the Isle of Man, was the mansion of the Heywood family, who sold it to the Taubman family. It is a modern building covered with ivy and situated in the midst of beautiful woods and gardens . A religious house, the Priory existed here in 1408, and was dissolved by the Act of Henry VIII ., 1536 . A traveller in tho Island in 1821 speaks of the "seat of Major Taubman called the "Nunnery" from the ancient structure formerly occupying the 1 3 2 same site, but of which not a vestige remains, except a gateway still supporting the old bell, but now forming ail entrance to the stables .