74 PETER HEYWOOD AND HIS FAMILY. 
Captain Edwards's boats one of the mutineers 
was observed to be engaged in his private 
devotions; but he was roughly interrupted by 
the Captain, who would not allow him to pray, 
but chose to read prayers himself among his 
company afterwards. Who the poor prisoner 
was, that was not ashamed to be seen by his 
fellow-sufferers in the act of piayer, and whose 
devotions were thus rudely prevented, we are not 
told ; but the circumstance is one of too affecting 
and instructive a nature to be overlooked. 
It is a remarkable fact, that Lieutenant 
Thomas Hayward, who had been in the Bounty, 
afterwards in the launch with Bligh, and subse- 
quently in the Pandora with Edwards, was, in 
consequence of the wreck, again set adrift on 
the same sea in an open boat, again exposed to 
serious hardships on the deep, and again per- 
mitted to reach Timor in safety ! 
Peter Heywood, son of Peter John Heywood, 
Esq., and grandson of Mr. Heywood, Chief Jus- 
tice of the Isle of Man, was born in June 1773. 
He had left a happy home in the Isle of Man, 
in August, 1787, when only fourteen years old, 
for his first voyage in the Bounty, and was but 
a youth of between fifteen and sixteen on the 
occasion of the mutiny. He had now been away 
from his father, mother, brothers, and sisters, for 
five years. About the latter end of March, 1790, 
his mother heard with grief and consternation of 
the mutiny which had taken place on board the 
Bounty. Her husband had died two months 
previously, and had thus been spared a painful 
domestic trial. The dreadful intelligence which 
