Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

SIR ROGER TWYSDEN (1597-1672)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 493 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

SIR See also:ROGER See also:TWYSDEN (1597-1672)  , See also:English See also:antiquary and royalist pamphleteer, belonging to an See also:ancient Kentish See also:family . His See also:mother, See also:Anne, was the daughter of See also:Sir Moule See also:Finch, and his See also:father, Sir See also:William See also:Twysden, was a courtier and See also:scholar who shared in some of the voyages against the Spaniards in the reign of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth and was well known at the See also:court of See also:King See also:James I . He was one of the first baronets . See also:Roger Twysden was educated at St See also:Paul's School, See also:London, and then at See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He entered See also:Gray's See also:Inn on the 2nd of See also:February 1623 . He succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's See also:death in 1629 . For some years he remained on his See also:estate at Roydon, See also:East See also:Peckham, largely engaged in See also:building and planting, but also in studying antiquities and the See also:law of the constitution . The king's attempts to govern without a See also:parliament, and the vexatious interference of hislawyers and See also:clergy with the freedom of all classes of men, offended Sir Roger as they did most other See also:country gentlemen . He showed his determination to stand on his rights by refusing to pay See also:ship See also:money, but, probably because the advisers of the See also:Crown were frightened by the unpopularity of the See also:impost, was not molested . He was chosen member of parliament for See also:Kent in the See also:Short Parliament of 164o, but was not elected to the See also:Long Parliament . In See also:common with most men of his class Sir Roger applauded the See also:early See also:measures of the parliament to restrict the king's See also:prerogative, and then became alarmed when it went on to assail the See also:Church . The See also:attainder of See also:Lord See also:Strafford frightened him as a tyrannical use of See also:power .

He be-came in fact a very typical example of the men who formed the strength of the king's party when the See also:

sword was at last See also:drawn . He considered himself too old to serve in the See also:field, and therefore he did not join the king at See also:Oxford . But he took the most prominent See also:part in preparing the Kentish See also:petition of See also:March 1642 and in subsequent demonstrations on behalf of See also:Charles . He incurred the wrath of the parliament, was arrested on the 1st of See also:April 1642, but was soon let out on See also:bail, and on his promise to keep quiet . But his respect for legality would not let him See also:rest, and he was soon in trouble again for another demonstration known as " The Instruction to Mr See also:Augustine See also:Skinner." For this he was again arrested and for a See also:time confined in a public-See also:house, called " The Two See also:Tobacco Pipes," near Charing See also:Cross, London . He was released with a distinct intimation that he would be well advised not to go back to Roydon See also:Hall, but to keep out of temptation in London . He took the See also:advice and applied himself to See also:reading . One See also:plan for going abroad was given up, but at last he endeavoured to See also:escape in disguise, was detected, and brought back to London . He was now subjected to all the vexations inflicted on Royalist partisans of See also:good See also:property, sequestrations of his rents, fines for " malignancy," and confinement in the See also:Tower, where he consoled himself with his books . At last he compounded in 165o and went See also:home, where he lived quietly till the Restoration, when he resumed his position as See also:magistrate . He died on the 27th of See also:June 1672 . He published The See also:Commons' See also:Liberty (London, 1648), demonstrating that finings and imprisonings by parliament were illegal; Historiae anglicanae scriptores decem (London, 1652), a w6rk encouraged by See also:Cromwell; and See also:Historical Vindication of the Church of See also:England (London, 1657) .

End of Article: SIR ROGER TWYSDEN (1597-1672)
[back]
TWISTED
[next]
TYBURN

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.