491; J. M. Cowper, Registers of St. Paul's, Canterbury, p. 205). By his wife Alice (1507–1567), daughter and coheiress of William Peper, whom he married in 1524, Twyne had issue three sons: John, who lived at Hardacre, and wrote verse; Lawrence [q. v.], and Thomas [q. v.]
Twyne enjoyed considerable reputation as a schoolmaster, antiquary, and scholar. In the examination of Thomas Bramston, a priest, in 1586, it was noted that he was ‘brought up in the grammar school at Canterbury under old Mr. Twyne’ (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1581–90, p. 323). He was well read in Greek and Latin; Leland (Encomia, p. 83), Holinshed, Somner (Antiq. Cant. p. 238), and Camden all testified to his antiquarian knowledge. In 1590 Thomas Twyne published his father's ‘De Rebus Albionicis, Britannicis, atque Anglis Commentariorum libri duo,’ London, 8vo. The book is chiefly interesting as containing Twyne's reminiscences of Dr. Nicholas Wotton [q. v.], John Dygon [q. v.], the last prior of St. Augustine's, Richard Foxe, Vives, and other scholars (De Rebus Albionicis, pp. 2, 71–2); it is now being edited by Father Gasquet, O.S.B. He also collected ‘Communia Loca,’ bequeathed, with his autograph will and a copy of his epitaph, to Corpus Christi College, Oxford (C. C. C. MS. cclvi. ff. 93, 196, cclviii. ff. 69 et sqq.), by his grandson, Brian Twyne [q. v.] In these collections he refers to lives he had written of Lupset, Wotton, Paget, Thomas Wriothesley, and other contemporaries, but they have not been traced. Another work, ‘Vitæ, Mores, Studia, et Fortunæ Regum Angliæ a Gulielmo Conquest. ad Henr. VIII,’ to which he refers, was formerly extant at Corpus (see description of it in Lansd. MS. 825, f. 29), but is now lost; it is possibly the basis of ‘A Booke containing the Portraiture of the Countenances and Attires of the Kings of England from William Conqueror unto … Elizabeth … diligently collected by T. T.,’ London, 1597, 4to.
[Authorities cited; Works in Brit. Mus. Libr.; Lansd. MS. 21; Coxe's Cat. MSS. in Coll. Aulisque Oxon.; Official Return Memb. of Parl.; Hasted's Kent, vol. iv.; Reg. Univ. Oxon. i. 136; Wood's Fasti, i. 66, and Athenæ, i. 463; Foster's Alumni Oxon.; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 729; Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. App. p. 254.]
TWYNE, LAWRENCE (fl. 1576), translator, eldest son of John Twyne [q. v.], by his wife Alice, daughter and coheiress of William Peper, was probably born about 1540 at Canterbury and educated at his father's school. He proceeded thence to All Souls' College, Oxford, where he was elected fellow and graduated B.C.L. on 17 Aug. 1564 (Reg. Univ. Oxon. i. 255). In 1573 he wrote some verses for his brother Thomas's translation of Lhuyd's ‘Breviary of Britayne,’ but his only claim to notice is his ‘Patterne of Painefull Aduentures, containing the most excellent, pleasant, and variable Historie of the Strange Accidents that befell vnto Prince Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his Wife, and Tharsia his Daughter. Wherein the Vncertaintie of this World and fickle state of man's life are liuely described. Gathered into English by Lavrence Twine, Gentleman. Imprinted at London by William How’ (1576, 4to). No copy of this edition is known to be extant, but it was licensed to How on 17 July 1576, and the ‘Stationers' Register’ states that ‘this book is sett foorth in print with this title “The Patterne of peynfull aduentures”’ (Arber, Transcript, ii. 301). Another edition, with no date, was issued by Valentine Simmes about 1595; a copy of it was sold at Utterson's sale for seven guineas, and from it Collier printed, with some inaccuracies, his edition in Shakespeare's ‘Library’ in 1843, and again in 1875. A third edition appeared in 1607, a year before the production of Shakespeare's ‘Pericles;’ a copy of this edition is in the Bodleian Library. The story of Apollonius of Tyre had been used in his ‘Confessio Amantis’ by John Gower [q. v.], who borrowed it from Godfrey of Viterbo. Another translation of the story from the French was published by Robert Copland [q. v.] in 1510. Twyne's version, however, was the one mainly used by the authors of ‘Pericles’ [see Wilkins, George], the production of which may have been suggested by the appearance of the third edition of Twyne's book in 1607. Steevens, Malone, and Douce erroneously assigned the authorship to Lawrence's brother, Thomas Twyne [q. v.]
Twyne is said (Foster, Alumni Oxon.) to have become rector of Twyneham, Sussex, in 1578. He married Anne, daughter of one Hoker of the county of Southampton, and had issue a son John and a daughter Anne (Berry, Hants Genealogies, pp. 222–3).
[Authorities cited; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. i. 464, ii. 130, and Fasti, i. 164; Collier's Bibl. Account and Prefaces to Reprints of the Patterne of Painfull Adventures; Corser's Collect. Anglo-Poet. iv. 43; Hazlitt's Handbook, p. 10.]
TWYNE, THOMAS, M.D. (1543–1613), physician, whose name is spelt Twine in the records of the College of Physicians, third son of John Twyne [q. v.], master of Canterbury free school, was born at Canterbury in 1543. Lawrence Twyne [q. v.] was his
