Arms.—Argent, a chevron between three hawk's heads erased azure. These arms, of the time of Richard II. are carved on the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral. See Willement, p. 101.
Present Representative, Sir Courtenay John Honywood, 7th Baronet.
Twysden of Roydon-Hall, in East Peckham, Baronet 1611.
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.
Toke, of Godington.