Sept. 24. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



299 



DR. JOHN TAYLOR. 



(Vol. i., p. 466.) 

 My attention has been caught by some remarks 

 in the early volumes of your work upon my learned 

 ancestor Dr. John Taylor, minister at Norwich, 

 and subsequently divinity tutor at Warrington. 

 Wiiatever opinion may have been attributed to 

 Dr. Parr concerning Dr. Taylor, this I know, that 

 on revisiting Norwich he desired my father (the 

 Dr.'s grandson) to show him the house inhabited 

 by him while he was the minister of the Octagon 

 Chapel. 



Dr. Parr looked serious and solemn, and in his 

 usual energetic manner pronounced, " He was a 

 great scholar." 



Dr. John Taylor was buried at Kirkstead *, 

 Lancashire, where his tomb is distinguished by 

 the following simple inscription : 



" Near to this place lies intcrr'd 

 what was mortal of 

 loHN Taylor, D. D. 

 Reader, 

 Expect no euloglum from this Stone. 

 Enquire amongst the friends of 

 Learning, Liberty, and Truth ; 

 These will do him justice. 

 Whilst taking his natural rest, he fell 

 asleep in Jesus, tlie 5th of March, 1761, 

 Aged 66." 

 The following inscription. In Latin, was com- 

 posed by Dr. Parr for a monumental stone erected 

 by grandchildren and great-grandchildren In the 

 Octagon Chapel, Norwich : 



" JoANNi Tavi.or, S.T.P. 



Langovicl nato 



Albi ostii in agro Cumbriensi 



bonis diseiplinis instituto 



Norvici 



Ad exequendum munus pastoris deleeto a.d. 1733. 



Rigoduni quo in oppido 



Senex quotidie aliquid addiscens 



Theologiam et philosophiam moralem docuit 



Mortuo 



Tert. non. Mart. 



Anno Domini mdcclxi. 



^tat. Lxvi. 



Viro integro innocent! pio 



Scriptori Grrecis et Hebraicis litterls 



probe erudito 



Verbi divini gravissimo interpret! 



Religlonis simplicis et incorruptae 



Acerrimo propugnatori 



Nepotes ejus et pronepotes 



In hac Capella 



Cujus ille fundamenta olim jecerat 



Monumentum hocce honorarium 



Poni curaverunt." 



S. R. 



* His first appointment, as minister of the Gospel, 

 was at Kirkstead Chapel, 



PORTRAIT OF SIR ANTHONY WINGFIBLD. 



(Vol. vlil., p. 245.) 



It Is most likely that Q., who Inquired relative 

 to a picture of Sir Anthony WIngfield, may occa- 

 sionally meet with an engraving of this worthy, 

 though the depository of the original portrait is 

 unknown. The tale told Horace Walpole by the 

 housekeeper at the house of the Nauntons at 

 Letherlngham, Suffolk, is not correct. Sir An- 

 thony was a favourite of the monarch, and was 

 knighted by him for his brave conduct at Te- 

 rouenne and Tournay. A private plate of Sir 

 Anthony exists, the original portrait from which 

 it was taken being at Letheringham at the time 

 the engraving was made. The position of the 

 hand In the girdle only indicates the fashion of 

 portraiture at the time, and is akin to the frequent 

 custom of placing one arm a-kimbo in modern 

 paintings. 



The Query of your correspondent opens a tale 

 of despoliation perhaps unparalleled even in the 

 days of Iconoclastic fury, and but very imperfectly 

 known. 



The estate of Letheringham devolved, about the 

 middle of the last century, upon William Leman, 

 Esq., who, being obliged to maintain his right 

 against claimants stating they descended from a 

 branch of the Naunton family who had migrated 

 into Normandy at the end of the preceding cen- 

 tury, was placed in a position of considerable dif- 

 ficulty to defend his occupation of the house and 

 lands. I will not say by whom, but in 1770 down 

 came the residence In which the author of the 

 well-known Fragmenta Regalia had resided, and, 

 what is far worse, the Priory Church, which, after 

 the Dissolution, was made parochial, and which 

 was filled with tombs, effigies, and brasses to 

 members of the family — Bovilles, Wingfields, and 

 Nauntons — was also levelled with the ground. 

 It was stated at the time that the sacred edifice 

 had only become dilapidated from age, and that 

 the parishioners were therefore obliged to do 

 something. What was done, however, was no re- 

 edification of the fabric, but its entire destruction, 

 and the erection of a new church. Fortunately, 

 Horace Walpole saw the edifice before the con- 

 tractor for the new building had cast his "desiring 

 eyes " upon it, and has recorded his impressions in 

 one of his letters. More fortunate still, the late 

 ]\Ir. Gough and Mr. Nichols visited It, and the 

 former employed the well-known topographical 

 draughtsman, the late James Johnson of \Vood- 

 bridge, Suffolk, to copy some of the efligles, which 

 Avere afterwards engraved and inserted in the 

 second volume of the Sepulchral Monuments. The 

 zeal of Johnson, however, led him to preserve, by 

 his minute delineation, not only every monument 

 (only two, I think, are given by Gough), but also 

 the Interior and exterior of the church, with the 



