Inter annos 1529 et 1545 musicus et choregus fuit apud aulam regis Henrici VIII;[2] eo tempore fuit socius et amicus Thomae More.[3] Anno 1544 cum aliis contra archiepiscopum Cranmerum coniuravit; ultimo supplicio damnatus, die 26 Iunii1544 nomine John Heywode, late of London, alias of Northmymmes, Herts. absolutus, errorem suum recantavit ad crucem Sancti Pauli Londiniensem die 6 Iulii.[4]
De florilegio proverbiorum a Ioanne Heywood congesso sic censuit Ioannes Florius:
The Greekes and Latines thanke Erasmus, and our Englishmen make much of Heywood: for proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofes, the purities, the elegances, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language.
– Ioannes Florio, Second Fruites, "To the Reader"
Graeci et Latini Erasmo gratias agunt, Heywoodum autem Angli nostri magnificant. Proverbia enim sunt medullae, proprietates, probationes, puritates, elegantiae cuiusque linguae; sunt sententiae communissimae necnon laudatissimae.
↑Alii aliter hoc nomen Latine converterunt: Heivodum (acc. sg.), Gabriel Harvey; Haywoodos (acc. pl.), Carolus Fitzgeoffrey; Haiwodus, Thomas Stapleton. Vide Graves (1923) p. 211.
J. S. Farmer, ed., The dramatic writings of John Heywood, comprising: The pardoner and the friar; The four P.P.; John the husband, Tyb his wife, and Sir John the priest; Play of the weather; Play of love; Dialogue concerning witty and witless; Note-book and word-list. Londinii, 1905 Textus apud archive.org
J. S. Farmer, ed., The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood, comprising: A dialogue of the effectual proverbs in the English tongue concerning marriages; First hundred epigrams; Three hundred epigrams on three hundred proverbs; The fifth hundred epigrams; A sixth hundred epigrams; Miscellanies; Ballads; Note-book and word-lists. Londinii, 1906 Textus apud archive.org
Historica et critica
Robert W. Bolwell, The Life and Works of John Heywood. Londinii, 1921
Thornton S. Graves, "The Heywood Circle and the Reformation" in Modern Philology vol. 10 (1913) pp. 553-572
Thornton S. Graves, "On the Reputation of John Heywood" in Modern Philology vol. 21 (1923) pp. 209-213
A. W. Reed, John Heywood and his Friends. Londinii, 1917
