Primary Sources: William Twisse, Prolocutor of Westminster Assembly

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William Twisse (1578-1646)



This illustrious divine was born at Spenham-Land, near Newbury, in Berkshire, and was educated first at Winchester school, then in New College, Oxford, where he was chosen fellow. He spent sixteen years at the university; and, by a most intense application, obtained an extraordinary knowledge of logic,