Add MS 34163-34165

NOTE-BOOKS of Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Bart., and Sir William Twysden, 3rd Bart., his son, relating chiefly to business transactions connected with their estates in co. Kent; 1611-1700. Three volumes. Holograph. For extracts see the Introduction to Sir R. Twysden's Considerations upon the Government of England, ed. J. M. Kemble, 1849. Interspersed are many personal and family notes, amongst them being:-Vol. I. Biographical accounts by Sir R. Twysden of his father Sir William Twysden, 1st Bart. (ob. 8 Jan. 1628). f. 4;-of his mother, Anne, Lady Twysden (ob.

14 Oct. 1638). f. 79 b;-of Johannes Hind, his mother's steward (ob. 15 Mar. 1650). ff. 104, 106 b ;-of Isabella, dau. of Sir Nicholas Saunder, wife of Sir R. Twysden (ob. 11 Mar. 1656/7). f. 109 b;-of himself, and his brothers and sisters. f. 111 ;-and of his children. f. 111 b. Included also are :-Recipes for making ink, etc. f. 5 ;-

"Generall rules for suing a Lyuery." f. 15 b;-" Certayn rules for those [who] feare to have Heryots seysed at the death of any man." f. 42 b;-Brief account of his library. f. 99 ;-Proceedings of the Heralds against Sir R. Twysden " towching fees for my fathers buriall, which I had not payd them," 1636-7. f. 100; -Account of his election to Parliament in March, 1639/40, his opponent being Sir Edward Dering. f. 108 b;-" Things caryed out of my house in East Peckham by the Troopers . . . April, 1643." f. 127;-Particulars of stew-ponds, 1633-5. f. 137 b;-Certificate of the return to Rochester Cathedral of the "Textus Roffensis " borrowed by Sir R. Twysden, 2 Nov. 1663. f. 140 b. Vol. II. Advice to his son as to felling and preserving of timber. ff. 88, 88 b;-Account of his daughter Anne's marriage with John Porter in 1658, and the latter's death on 20 Jan. 1659 [60]. f. 92 ;-Note of the circumstances of the marriage of Sir Edw. Dering, 2nd Bart., and Mary Harvey. f. 95 b;-Notes of subscription, etc., " towards y^e printing of y^e great Hebrue byble, 1653 " [sc. Walton's Poly glott, 1657] and of "y^e Dictionary" [sc. Castell's Lexicon Heptaglotton, 1669], 1658-1664. f. 100. On f. 104b are memoranda of books lent. Vol. III. The notes in this volume extend from 1667 to 1700. Sir Roger Twysden dying in 1672, the bulk of the volume is in the hand of his son, Sir William Twysden, 3rd Bart. Paper; ff. 141, 104, 93. Narrow Folio.