84 DEATH OF NESSY HEYWOOD. 
consolation in her sick chamber; and there 
is reason to believe, that, trusting in her Re- 
deemer's merits, she found comfort in true 
Religion, without which the ties of affection 
must, she knew, be utterly dissolved, the en- 
joyment derived from it pass away for ever. 
In the manuscript collection, from which 
the above letters and verses have been ex- 
tracted, is a memorandum by Mrs. Heywood, 
(Peter's mother,) in her own handwriting, 
dated, Douglas, Isle of Man, shortly after 
Nessy's death. " My dearest Nessy was 
seized, while on a visit at Major Yorke's, 
at Bishop's Grove, near Tunbridge Wells, 
with a violent cold ; and, not taking proper 
care of herself, it soon turned to inflam- 
mation on her lungs, which carried her off 
at Hastings, to which place she was taken 
on the 5th of September, to try if the change 
of air, and being near the sea, would recover 
her. But, alas ! it was too late for her to 
receive the wished-for benefit, and she died 
there on the 25th of the same month, 1793, 
and has left her only surviving parent a 
disconsolate mother, to lament, while ever 
she lives, with the most sincere affliction, the 
