JOHN HEYWOOD.
This week's issue of the "Heywood Advertiser" forms the Jubilee number, including a "sixteen-page supplement containing a record of the origin and development of the paper, and many special articles on Heywood fifty years ago and its progress during the half- century." Though this valuable record may be considered a sufficient memorial, it is perhaps allowable to present in "N . and Q .," a brief sketch of the founder of the paper.
John Heywood, printer and postmaster, was born in 1808. He was at first a piecer, but soon after his marriage set up in business as a bookseller and stationer in a cottage opposite the Lamb Inn, York-street. He removed to a better position near the Wesleyan Chapel, Market-street, and added printing to his other business. His name appeared on the "Religious, Literary, and Temperance Advocate" for 1839. About this time he commenced to issue in parts "The Sunday School and General Reciter," of which several volumes were published. He was also the printer of works by Samuel Bamford, and was very friendly with him .
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