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comes home to Day, and she sets off the 16th. Inst for Litchfield to bring 

 home the Young Ladies so that with them, my Cous. tJc Sister, & Miss Leighs 

 we shall have a Pretty full house. Please to give my Compts to your Papa 

 & Mama & not forgetting Little Harry I remain 



Your sincere Friend 



TIIOS TAYLOR. 



The writer is, of course, the Thomas Taylor to whom we 

 have alluded, and from their schooldays, until the marriage 

 of Philips in 1786 ended their joint bachelor life, the two 

 men were, as I have said, constant and intimate com- 

 panions. Taylor was an offshoot of a family which has been 

 truly said to have been conspicuous for virtues and talents 

 for many generations and in many branches. The Taylor 

 family, indeed, has produced so many notable worthies 

 that the task of tracing out its many claims to distinction 

 is anything but an easy one. Though conspicuously 

 associated with the town of Norwich, where the periodical 

 gatherings of the various branches of the family were held, 

 at which a hundred or more of its members would assemble, 

 it is of Lancashire origin. The other literary family, the 

 Taylors of Ongar, of whom an account is given by Isaac 

 Taylor in that curious book, " The Family Pen," were not 

 related to the Norwich Taylors. Jane and xAnn Taylor, 

 known to childhood in the " Original Poems," belonged to 

 the Ongar family. 



Dr. John Taylor, the author of the " Hebrew Con- 

 cordance," fi"om whom theNorwichTaylors were descended, 

 was born at Lancaster — where the family was known in 

 the 15th century — in 1694, and settled in Norwich in 1733. 

 In 1757 he became the tutor in Divinity at the Warrington 

 Academy, opened in that year, the first student at which 

 was Thomas Percival,who, as Dr. Percival,was subsequently 

 one of the founders of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, to whose memory there is a mural tablet 

 above the Presidential chair in the Society's house in George 



