self ‘unfit for such an employment that divers times do fall upon me’ (3 Jan. 1644–5). It fell to Cornelius Burges, D.D. [q. v.], to supply, ‘so farr as is decent, the proloqutor's place’ (Baillie). On 1 April 1645 it was reported to the assembly that the prolocutor was ‘very sick and in great straits.’ He had received no profits from Newbury, and but a small stipend (1643–5) as one of three lecturers at St. Andrew's, Holborn. On 30 March 1645 he had fainted in the pulpit (‘procumbit in pulverem,’ Kendall), and henceforth kept his bed. Though a man of some estate—for his will (9 Sept. 1645; codicil 30 June 1646; proved 6 Aug. 1646) disposes of the manor of Ashamstead, Berkshire, and other property—the confusion of the times had deprived him of income. Parliament voted him 100l. (4 Dec. 1645), which does not seem to have been paid in full; on 26 June 1646 the assembly sent him 10l., with the assurance ‘that there hath been no money paid by any order of parliament to his use that hath been detained from him.’
Twisse died in Holborn on 20 July 1646, and on 24 July, with all the pomp of a public funeral, was buried in Westminster Abbey, ‘in the south side of the church, near the upper end of the poore's table, next the vestry.’ By royal mandate of 9 Sept. 1661 his remains, with others, were disinterred and thrown into a common pit in St. Margaret's churchyard, the site being in the sward between the north transept and the west end of the abbey. An oil painting of him, done in 1644, is in the vestry of St. Nicholas, Newbury. Bromley says his portrait, engraved by T. Trotter, is in the ‘Nonconformist's Memorial,’ but this is an error. He was twice married: first, before 1615, to a daughter of Robert Moor [q. v.]; secondly, to Frances, daughter of Barnabas Colnett of Combley, Isle of Wight. At the time of his death he was a widower with four sons and three daughters. His son William, born in 1616, was fellow of New College, Oxford (1635–50); his son Robert (d. 1674) published in 1665 a sermon preached at the New Church (now Christ Church), Westminster, ‘on the anniversary of the martyrdom’ of Charles I. Parliament voted 1000l. towards the support of his children, but the money does not seem to have been paid.
Twisse published: 1. ‘A Discovery of D. Jacksons Vanitie,’ 1631, 4to. 2. ‘Vindiciæ Gratiæ, Potestatis ac Providentiæ Dei,’ Amsterdam, 1632, fol.; 1648, fol. 3. ‘Dissertatio de Scientia Media,’ Arnheim, 1639, fol. 4. ‘Of the Morality of the Fourth Commandment,’ 1641, 4to; with new title, ‘The Christian Sabbath defended,’ 1652, 4to. 5. ‘A Brief Catecheticall Exposition of Christian Doctrine,’ 1645, 8vo. 6. ‘A Treatise of Mr. Cotton's … concerning Predestination … with an Examination thereof,’ 1646, 4to. Posthumous were: 7. ‘Ad … Arminii Collationem … et … Corvini Defensionem … Animadversiones,’ Amsterdam, 1649, fol. 8. ‘The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort and Arles (sic) reduced to the Practise, with an Answer thereunto’ [1650], 4to. 9. ‘The Doubting Conscience resolved,’ 1652, 12mo. 10. ‘The Riches of God's Love … consisted with … Reprobation,’ Oxford, 1653, fol. 11. ‘The Scriptures' Sufficiency,’ 1656, 12mo; commendatory epistle (29 April 1652) by Joseph Hall, bishop of Norwich. According to Kendall, he left some thirty unpublished treatises. His manuscripts, Wood says, were carefully kept by his son Robert till his death. His fifteen letters (2 Nov. 1629–2 July 1638) to Joseph Mead [q. v.] are printed in Mead's ‘Works,’ 1672, bk. iv. The collection of ‘Guilielmi Twissi … Opera,’ Amsterdam, 1652, fol., 2 vols., consists of Nos. 2, 3, and 7 above, bound together, with additional title-page.
[Tuissii Vita et Victoria, by George Kendall [q. v.], appended to Fur pro Tribunali, 1657, is the main authority; it is closely (not always carefully) followed in Clarke's Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons (1683, pp. 13 sq.), less closely by Brook (Lives of the Puritans, 1813, iii. 12 sq.), and by Chalmers (General Biographical Dictionary, 1816, xxx. 118 sq.). See also Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 169 sq.; Wood's Fasti (Bliss), i. 285, 303, 348, 359; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1892, iv. 1525; Fuller's Church History, 1655, xi. 199; Fuller's Worthies, 1662, ‘Barkshire,’ p. 96; Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, 1696, i. 73; Bromley's Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, 1793, p. 91; History of Newbury, 1839, p. 106; Lipscomb's Buckingham, 1847, iv. 266; Mitchell and Struthers's Minutes of the Westminster Assembly, 1874, passim to p. 258; Chester's Registers of Westminster Abbey, 1876, pp. 140, 151, 153; Money's Hist. of Newbury, 1887, pp. 503 sq.]
TWM SHON CATTI (1530-1620?), Welsh bard and genealogist. [See Jones, Thomas.]
TWYFORD, JOSIAH (1640–1729), potter, was born in 1640 at Shelton, near Stoke-on-Trent. About 1690 he was employed by John Philip Elers [q. v.], in his pottery works. Elers had settled at Bradwell Wood, near Burslem, shortly before, and had established a pottery there. His processes were carefully kept secret, persons of small intelligence being selected by him
