[Illustration] Twysden, in the parish of Goudhurst, appears to have
given name to this family: it was possessed by Adam de Twysden in
the reign of Edward I.; and in that of Henry IV. Roger Twysden, his
descendant, married the daughter and heir of Thomas Chelmington of
Chelmington, in Great Chart, Esq. where his son Roger removed.
Twysden was sold in the reign of Henry VI. In the reign of
Elizabeth, William Twysden, of Chelmington, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Roydon, of Roydon-Hall, which has since been the
residence of his descendants. There is another Twysden, in the
parish of Sandhurst, in this county, where the family are also said
to have lived in the time of Edward I.
A younger branch of Bradbourne, in this county, also Baronets, were
extinct in 1841.
See Hasted's Kent, ii. 213, 275; iii. 37, 244; Philpot's Kent, p.
300; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 211.
ARMS.--_Gyronny of four, argent and gules, a saltier between four
crosses crosslet, all counterchanged_.
Present Representative, Sir William Twysden, 8th Baronet.