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| | Chapter 1 - Nessy Heywood, A.W. Moore, 1913 |
 | | CHAPTER I. HESTER, or, as she was invariably called, Nessy Heywood, the second daughter of Deemster Peter John Heywood and Elizabeth Spedding, was born at the Nunnery, near Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1768. |
 | | Thomas Heywood was Speaker of the House of Keys, Captain of the Fort at Douglas, and a friend of Bishop Wilsons. |
 | | As Thomas Stowell and his wife, with their sixteen children, then lived in Douglas, it is probable that Nessy also knew Hugh Stowell, afterwards the saintly clergyman of that name, though he was educated in Ramsey; and Thomas Stowell, the future Clerk of the Rolls. |
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