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Notes
Reprinted with scrupulous care from a multiplicity of manuscript sources, some of which are now among BM MSS Add 45963-81, in The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A. 1630-1702; His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and Event Books, ed. J. Horsfall Turner, 4 vols. (Brighouse and Bingley, 1882-4). Parenthetical references in the text are to this edition. References to Works are to The Whole Works of the Rev. Oliver Heywood, B. A., ed. J. W. Vint, 5 vols. (Idle, 1825-27). For a sympathetic account of Heywood's life and character see Wallace Notestein's essay in Four Worthies (1956), pp. 211-243. Material cited has been verified from the manuscript when known.
For the catalogue see II, 123-128 and III, 17. It concludes with a list of nine (MS) unpriced titles and the subscript "These taken from me for preaching [the] gospel"—identifying them as the volumes seized with other property on 13 July 1670 in satisfaction of a fine under the Conventicle Act (I, 270-271).
II, 189-190; III, 65. Heywood records payments of £9/5/0 for "Bookes for my sons out of their grandfathers [John Angier's] study," £6/7/10 for books from the library of the Rev. Thomas Sharp, and 3/6 for books from the library of Mr. Thorpe (II, 189). He also bought volumes from "Mr Parkes excellent library" (I, 273, 276, 278).
Newman had served his apprenticeship under Parkhurst and shared his interest in religion. Having failed as a bookseller he became a preacher.
See III, 55, 75-76; IV, 172; II, 215-216; IV, 259; IV, 259, 261, 269. Only the "Epistle to the Reader" of Advice to an Only Child is Heywood's.
The binding cost in this case was only 2d. In the case of the bulkier Christ's Intercession, "Bins had 4d a piece for binding them" (IV, 262).
II, 213. The books mentioned are Matthew Mead, The almost Christian discovered, 8th edn. (London, 1677); Benjamin Keach, The glorious Lover (1679); John Corbet, The Kingdom of God among Men (1679); Abraham Caley, A Glimpse of Eternity, 2nd edn. (1679).
The Best Entail is advertised in the Term Catalogue for Trinity Term (June) 1693 and was probably in the press by the time of the April letter. If either of the books mentioned in the February memo had been sent at that time to Parkhurst, he would not have needed to ask to see it in April. The more likely explanation is that the letter refers to Advice to an Only Child which, like A Family Altar, is dated 1693, though it was not advertised until the Michaelmas Catalogue (November) of 1694. On the other hand it would be unwise to argue too rigorously from Heywood's casual references.
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