Gerard Langbaine, The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets… (1698)
“ Son of John Heywood, first of Merton, and then of All-Souls-College, Oxon, which he left for St. Omers, where he prov’d a zealous Biggotted Jesuit, and the first that seminary sent for England: some say he was Hanged; [1] others, That he was, with Seventy more, of that and other Orders, taken the Year 1585. and sent away beyond Sea. [2] While he was of Oxford, he translated Three of Seneca’s Plays, (viz.) ”
