A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Twyford (Henry)
TWYFORD (HENRY), bookseller in London, (1) Vine Court in the Middle Temple; (2) Three Daggers in Fleet Street, 1641-75. Took up his freedom January 20th, 1640. [Arber, iii. 688.] Mentioned as one of the "better sort of freemen" in a list of stationers dated August 5th, 1641, as paying ten shillings as his proportion of the Poll Tax. [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 483 (11).] Dealt chiefly in law books, and in 1664 was arrested for illegally selling works of this class, which the Company of Stationers considered as their copyright. [Chan. Proc. Reynardson, Bundle 31, Stationers' Co. v. Flesher.]