Thomas Twyne

, Son of Joh. Twyne mention’d under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9. Nov. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty, he applyed his Muse to the study of Medicine, retired to Cambridge, where he continued for a time, and then setling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived, practiced his faculty and became successful therein. In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physick of this University, and afterwards being doctorated at Cambridge; was famed not only for Medicine, but Astrology, and much respected by Dee and Allen. He hath written,

Almanacks and Prognostications for divers years—Printed in the time of Qu. Elizabeth, and then much valued, as Dee’s were.

The garland of godly flowers, carefully collected out of the Garden of the holy Scripture, &c. Lond. 1589. in tw. And did also translate from Lat. into English (1) The breviary of Britayne, &c. containing a learned discourse of the variable estate and alteration thereof. &c. Lond. 1573. oct. written by Hump. Lhuyd. This translation being esteemed very good of its time, was usher’d into the world by the copies of Verses of Thom. Brown Prebendary, and Edw. Grant Schoolmaster, of Westminster, Lodowick Lhuyd, Laurence and Joh. Twyne brethren to the Translator. (2) The dialogue of witches, in fort-time called Lot-tellers, now commonly called Sorcerers. Lond. 1575. oct. written by Lamb. Danaeus. (3) Christian natural Philosophy concerning the form, knowledge, and use of all things created, &c. Lond. 1578. qu. written by the said Danaeus. (4) New counsel against the Plague. Lond. in oct. written by Pet. Droet. (5) The Tragedies of Tyrants, exercised vpon the Church of God, from the birth of Christ, to 1572. Lond. 1575. oct. written by Hen. Bullenger. (6) Physick against fortune, as well prosperous as adverse. Lib. 2. Lond. 1579. qu. written by Franc. Petrark. (6) The eleventh, 12. and 13. books of Virgils Aeneids. Lond. 1584. and 1620. qu. Which translation shews him (Tho. Twyne) to be a tolerable English Poet. The nine first Books of the said author were translated by Thom. Phaeer, as I have before told you, under the year 1560. the tenth also was began by him, but he dying before he had done half of it, was taken in hand by our author Twyne, and by him finished 23. May 1573. At length after he had obtained a considerable Estate by his practice at Lewes in Sussex before mention’d, died there on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, 2613 aged 70. whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church, usually called S. Anne, but more properly S. Peter and S. Mary Westout in Lewes. Over his Grave was soon after a brass fixed to the East wall of the said Chancel, having engraven thereon 14 verses; a copy of which, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 238. a.