the name of the seat of his friend Lord Carbery.  For some remarks against the existing authorities T. suffered a short imprisonment, and some controversial tracts on Original Sin, Unum Necessarium (the one thing needful), and The Doctrine and Practice of Repentance involved him in a controversy of some warmth in which he was attacked by both High Churchmen and Calvinists.  While in Wales T. had entered into a second marriage with a lady of some property which, however, was seriously encroached upon by the exactions of the Parliamentarians.  In 1657 he ministered privately to an Episcopalian congregation in London, and in 1658 accompanied Lord Conway to Ireland, and served a cure at Lisburn.  Two years later he pub. Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures, a learned and subtle piece of casuistry which he dedicated to Charles II.  The Restoration brought recognition of T.’s unswerving devotion to the Royalist cause; he was made Bishop of Down and Connor, and to this was added the administration of the see of Dromore.  In his new position, though, as might have been expected, he showed zeal, diligence, and benevolence, he was not happy.  He did not, probably could not, entirely practise his own views of absolute toleration, and found himself in conflict with the Presbyterians, some of whose ministers he had extruded from benefices which they had held, and he longed to escape to a more private and peaceful position.  He d. at Lisburn of a fever caught while ministering to a parishioner.  T. is one of the great classical writers of England.  Learned, original, and impassioned, he had an enthusiasm for religion and charity, and his writings glow with an almost unequalled wealth of illustration and imagery, subtle argument, and fullness of thought.  With a character of stainless purity and benevolence, and gracious and gentle manners, he was universally beloved by all who came under the spell of his presence.

TAYLOR, JOHN (1580-1653).—­Known as the “Water Poet,” b. at Gloucester of humble parentage, was apprenticed to a London waterman, and pressed for the navy.  Thereafter he returned to London and resumed his occupation on the Thames, afterwards keeping inns first at Oxf., then in London.  He had a talent for writing rollicking verses, enjoyed the acquaintance of Ben Jonson, and other famous men, superintended the water pageant at the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth 1613, and composed the “triumphs” at the Lord Mayor’s shows.  He made a journey on foot from London as far as to Braemar, of which he wrote an account, The Pennyless Pilgrimage ... of John Taylor, the King’s Majesty’s Water Poet (1618).  He visited the Queen of Bohemia at Prague in 1620, and made other journeys, each of which was commemorated in a book.  His writings are of little literary value, but have considerable historical and antiquarian interest.