Besides his dramatic works, twelve of which were reprinted by the "Shakespeare Society," and were published by Mr John Pearson in a complete edition of six vols. with notes and illustrations in 1874, he was the author of _Troia Britannica, or Great Britain's Troy_ (1609), a poem in seventeen cantos "intermixed with many pleasant poetical tales" and "concluding with an universal chronicle from the creation until the present time"; _An Apology for Actors, containing three brief treatises_ (1612) edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1841; [Greek: Gynaikeion] _or nine books of various history concerning women_ (1624); _England's Elizabeth, her Life and Troubles during her minority from the Cradle to the Crown_ (1631); _The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels_ (1635), a didactic poem in nine books; _Pleasant Dialogue, and Dramas selected out of Lucian_, &c. (1637; ed. W. Bang, Louvain, 1903); and _The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius_ (1641).
See A. W. Ward, _History of English Dram. Lit._ ii. 550 seq. (1899); the same author's Introduction to _A woman killed with kindness_ ("Temple Dramatists," 1897); J. A. Symonds in the Introduction to _Thomas Heywood_ in the "Mermaid" series (new issue, 1903).
HEYWOOD, a municipal borough in the Heywood parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 9 m. N. of Manchester on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 25,458. It is of modern growth and possesses several handsome churches, chapels and public buildings. The Queen's Park, purchased and laid out at a cost of £11,000 with money which devolved to Queen Victoria in right of her duchy and county palatine of Lancaster, was opened in 1879. Heywood Hall in the neighbourhood of the town was the residence of Peter Heywood, who contributed to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. Heywood owes its rise to the enterprise of the Peels, its first manufactures having been introduced by the father of the first Sir Robert Peel. It is an important seat of the cotton manufacture, and there are power-loom factories, iron foundries, chemical works, boiler-works and railway wagon works. Coal is worked extensively in the neighbourhood. Heywood was incorporated in 1881, and the corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. Area, 3660 acres.