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b. 1618, 3rd s. of John Twisleton of Barley (Barlow) Hall, Brayton, Yorks. and Margaret, da. of Marmaduke Constable of Drax Abbey. m. c. 1648, Mary (d. 8 June 1676), da. and h. of William Glynne of Lleuar, Caern., 5s. at least 7da. d. 12 May 1667.DWB; Griffith, Peds. Anglesey and Caern. Fams., 270. Sig.SP18/67/50i.
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Military: lt.-col. (parlian.) regt. of ?Thomas Mytton* bef. Jan. 1646;HMC Portland i. 337. col. of ft. Feb.-Oct. 1660.Add. 4197, f. 235; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 345–6. Gov. Denbigh Castle 15 Jan. 1648–59.CCC 703.

Local: commr. associated cos. of N. Wales, Caern., Denb., Merion. 21 Aug. 1648;A. and O. assessment, Caern., Denb., Flint 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Merion. 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Anglesey 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660. 31 Mar. 1649 – 4 Sept. 1660A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). J.p. Denb.; Caern. 25 July 1650 – bef.Oct. 1660; Anglesey 13 Feb. 1652 – bef.Mar. 1660; Flint 28 July 1653-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 198, 231, 265; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 13–14, 31–2, 76–8, 112–13. Commr. composition for delinquency and sequestration, N. Wales 10 Aug. 1649; propagating the gospel in Wales, 22 Feb. 1650;A. and O. ct. martial, James Stanley†, 7th earl of Derby, 11 Sept. 1651.Stanley Pprs. ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxvii), p. cccxxxvi. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Flint 5 Oct. 1653.A. and O. Commr. sewers, Denb. and Flint. 4 Mar. 1654;C181/6, p. 21. ejecting scandalous ministers, N. Wales 28 Aug. 1654; militia, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.

Civic: common councilman, Denbigh 28 Sept. 1648; alderman, 1650–60.J. Williams, Recs. of Denbigh and its Lordship (Wrexham, 1860), 133–5.

: of Denbigh Castle, Denb. and Lleuar, Clynnog, Caern.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
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TWISLETON, George (1618-67), of Denbigh Castle, Denb. and Lleuar, Clynnog, Caern.

Will
10 Mar. 1666, pr. 2 Oct. 1667.PROB11/325/141.
Estates
jt.-purchaser of manors of Llandegla, Withrin and Meliden, Denb., c.1650;Williams, Recs. of Denbigh, 133. purchased land in Anglesey, 1650;Cal. Wynn Pprs., 330. ?date, jt.-purchaser of Mold, Flint, and other manors forfeited by James Stanley†, 7th earl of Derby.CCC 1116. With John Jones I* bought Llandegfan, Meliden and ‘Withervin’, episcopal lands of St Asaph and Bangor, and in Jan. 1663 admitted to having bought episcopal lands in north Wales and a fee farm rent of the crown in Caerns.Bodl. Rawl. B.239, p. 48; E112/566/693.
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