Anne, Lady Twysden (1574–1638)

Prose

Anne, Lady Twysden's Prayerbook

TwA 1

Copy, in a neat italic hand, entitled (f. [vir]) in the small italic hand of Sir Roger Twysden, second Baronet (1597-1672), antiquary, ‘Certayn comfortable places of Scripture and three prayers collected and made by my deare and Noble Mother ye Lady Ann Twysden who dyed at her howse in East=Peckham the 14th of October 1638 / Roger Twysden’, and with his headnotes, vii leaves + 84 octavo pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end, in contemporary vellum with green ties. Transcribed from Lady Twysden's original MS (known as the Jennings-Bramley MS and now untraced) and including a prayer by her brother, Sir Heneage Finch (1580-1631), Speaker of the House of Commons. c.1638.

Described in detail in the online Perdita Project.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U1655 F8.

Letters

Letter(s)

*TwA 2

Autograph letter signed (‘Anne Twysden’), in her italic hand, to ‘My swetehart’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, the text written in various directions. c.1625.

In: A folio guardbook of correspondence chiefly of the Twysden family, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, in various hands and paper sizes, 51 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

Sotheby's, 7-8 April 1892.

British Library, Add. MS 34173, ff. 9r-10r.

TwA 3

Autograph letter signed (Anne Twysden), in her italic hand, to ‘My swetehart’, on a single folio leaf, the text written in various directions. c.1628.

In: the MS described under TwA 2.

British Library, Add. MS 34173, f. 11r-v.