HAYWARD (HUMPHREY), see Harward.
HAYES (JOHN), printer in London; Little Wood Street, 1658-66. Possibly a descendant of Lawrence Hayes, who was publishing up to 1637. [Arber, v. 241.] He was one of the eleven printers who in 1660 or 1661 drew up a petition for the incorporation of printers into a body distinct from the Company of Stationers. [Plomer, Short History, p. 200.] In 1662 Sir R. L'Estrange seized several books at the office of this printer, a list of which is extant. John Hayes was ruined by the Great Fire of 1666. [Ibid., 202 and 225.]
HAYWARD (BERNARD), (?) bookseller in Manchester, 1643. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Manchester's Joy for Derbie's overthrow … Printed for Bernard Hayward, 1643.
HEAD (RICHARD), author and bookseller; The Heart and Bible in Little Britain, 1666-7. Born in Ireland about 1637. His father is believed to have been John Head, B.A., New Inn Hall, 1628, who became a nobleman's chaplain and was killed in Ireland by the rebels in 1641. Richard and his mother, after many sufferings, reached England, and Winstanley says that after studying for a short time at Oxford at the same hall as that from which his father had graduated, Richard Head was apprenticed to a Latin bookseller in London, and that he afterwards married and set up for himself. He gives no dates, but makes these events occur before the publication of Head's first work, the play of Hic et Ubique, which was written in Ireland and printed in London in 1663, that is before he was twenty-two years of age. There is no confirmation of this story. The earliest date at which Richard Head's name is found in the imprint of a book is the year 1666, when he issued Saml. Hieron's Fair Play on both sides. 4o. [B.M. 1077, h. 71 (4).] In the same year Richard Head and Francis Kirkman jointly issued a book of jests entitled Poor Robin's Jests, of which a copy is noted by Hazlitt. In the Luttrell Collection is a broadside dated 1667 entitled The Citizens Joy for the re-building of London, which was also one of Head's publications. His career as a bookseller was a short one, as he was a great gambler and was ruined by losses at play. He is said to have been drowned in 1686 when crossing to the Isle of Wight. Head is chiefly remembered as the author of The
