TAYLOR. 



Bowj-er, in 1739 ; and a new edition, witli Taylor's verfion 

 and notes, was printed at Cambridge in the following year. 

 Upon takinjj his degree of LL.D. he delivered and publifhed 

 a differtation under the title of " Commentarius ad legem 

 dccemviiilem de inope debitore in partes diffecando." In 

 1743, he piibliflied " Orationes dux; una Demofthcnis 

 contra Meidiam ; altera Lycurgi contra Leocratcm," Gr. 

 and Lat. with notes and emendations ; and in the follov\nng 

 year, '• Manner Sandvicenfe, cum Commentarlo et Notis," 

 being a differtation on an Athenian marble brought to 

 England by lord Sandwich, bearing the oldeft infcription ef 

 known date. 



In 1 741, Dr. Taylor had been admitted .in advocate m 

 Doftors' Commons, and in 1744 he was made chancellor of 

 Lincoln. He afterwards took orders, and printed a fermon 

 preached at Billiop-Stortford in 1749. He was prefented 

 to the archdeaconry of Buckingham, to the reftbry of 

 Lawford, Eflex ; and in 1757 to a refidentiaryfliip of 

 St. Paul's. In 1755, ftill profecuting his legal ftudies, he 

 p»bli(hed " Elements of the Civil Law," 4to. reprinted in 

 1769. An abridgment of this learned work, entitled 

 " A Sununai-y of the Roman Law," was publifhed in 

 1773. 



Dr. Taylor held alfo the offices of commiffary of Lincoln 

 and of Stowe : he was a member of the Royal and Anti- 

 quarian Societies ; and of the latter he was one of the vice- 

 prefidents. At the time of his death, his long-promifed 

 edition of Dcmoilhenes was jull finifhed, in two vols. 8vo. 

 at the univerfity prefs, Cambridge ; and the notes were 

 afterwards added, together with part of an appendix to 

 Suidas. The charader of Dr. Taylor was that of an 

 amiable and difinterefled man ; and the world was deprived 

 of his learned labours in April 1766. To the works 

 already mentioned, we may add fome remarks inferted in 

 Fofter's " Effay on Accent and Quantity," and various 

 pieces of poetry, printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, and 

 in Nichols's " Seka Colleftion of Poems." Anecd. of 

 Bowyer. Month. Rev. Gen. Biog. 



Taylor, Henry, A.M. a very refpeftable clergyman 

 of the eftabliflicd church, was the fon of William Taylor, 

 merchant of London, and born at Southweald, in Effex, in 

 May 171 1. The rudiments of his education he received at 

 Mr. Newcome's fchool, in the parifli of Hackney, and there 

 lie formed an early friendfliip with Mr. John Hoadly, fon of 

 Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, bifliop of Wincheller. From Hack- 

 ney he removed to Queen's college, in the univerfity of 

 Cambridge, and having completed. his education with a view 

 to the church, he took orders, and commenced the exercife 

 of his mii-.ifterial duties as a preacher with iingular accept- 

 ance. His talents and acquirements, as well as his voice 

 and manner of delivery, which were peculiarly pleafing, 

 recommended him to public notice, and he ranked high in 

 the eftimation of thofe friends with whom he intimately afTo- 

 ciated. His firfl preferment was the reftory of Whitfield, 

 in Oxfordfliire, which he held for a minor. In 1755 he 

 was prefented by biOiop Hoadly to the reftory of Crawley, 

 in Hamptliire, which lie afterwards held in conneftion with 

 the vicarage of Portfmouth, in exchange for a living in 

 Habnpfhire, which he liad held witli Whitfield. He mar- 

 ried Ivlifs Chrifllan Fox, daughter of the Rev. Francis 

 Fox, redlor of St. Mary's, Rotherhithe, who died in the 

 year 1769 ; and by her he had four fons and two daugh- 

 ters. His courfe of literary and clerical labour terminated 

 in April, 1785, and he was interred at Crawley. 



Having recited the few particulars wliich we could colleft 

 concerning the private life of Mr. Taylor, we fh.all now fub- 

 join a lift of hio publications, fome having his name and others 



being anonymous. In 1 760 he publifhed " An EfTay on the 

 Beauty of the Divine Economy; being the Subftance of a Ser- 

 mon (withinany and large Additions) preached at the Vifit- 

 ation of the Lord Bidiop of Winchefkr, held by the Worfhip.^ 

 ful and Reverend Dr. Jolin Hoadly, ehanccllor of tlie Dio- 

 cefe, on Tuefday September 1 8, 1 759, at the cathedral Church 

 of Wincheflcr, and pubhflied at the Defire of Mr. Chancellor 

 and the Clergy." — " A full Aiifwer to a late View of the 

 internal Evidence of the Chriflian Religion, in a Dlfcourfe 



between a rational Chriflian and his Friend," 1771 " A 



Trad ap-ainfl Warburton," 1 772 " Confufion worfe con- 

 founded. Rout on Rout ; or the Bifhop of G ter's 



Commentary upon Rice or Arife Evans's Echo from Hea- 

 ven, examined and expofcd by Indignatlo," London, 1772. 

 Anonymous. " Two Letters ; •u'tz. I. A Letter to the 

 Earl of Abingdon, in which His Grace of York's Notions 

 of Civil Liberty are examined by LiberaUs, publifhed in the 

 London Evening Pofl, November 6, 1777. 2. Fera Icon; 

 or a Vindication of His Grace of York's Sermon, preached 

 on February 211!:, 1777 ; proving it to contain a fevere 

 Satire againft the Miuiftry, and a Defence of civil and 

 religious Liberty, upon the well-known Principles of 

 Whiggifm ; in anfv^er to a Letter from Liberalis to the 

 Earl of Abingdon, by M^lagogus Candidus." — " The 

 Apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his Friends, for 

 embraciniT Chrifliani;:y ; in feven Letters to Elifha Levi, 

 Merchant of Amflerdam ; with Notes and Illuflrations, by 

 the Author and the Editor." Lond. 1771. 1773, '774> 

 4to. The firfl of thefe letters contains an account and ex- 

 amination of the various opinions among Chriflians, concern- 

 ing the nature and perfon of Chrift. In the fecond, third, 

 and fourth letters, it is propofed to fliew from fcripture, that 

 the Logos was the angel of the covenant, and to prove the 

 fame from the moft approved commentators on fcripture, 

 both ancient and modern, both Jewifh and Cliriflian ; and to 

 demonflrate that Jefus was the MefTiah. The fifth, fixth, 

 and feventh letters contain preparatory principles to the 

 Chriflian fcheme of redemption ; giving the fcheme of 

 Cliriflianity itfelf, and fhewing it to be one, plain, regular, and 

 confiflent fyflem of divine economy, from the beginning of 

 the world to the end ; and containing proofs, illuflrations, 

 anfwers to objeftions, and an examination of Mr. Hume's 

 notion of miracles. — " Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand 

 Apoftacy, with Refleftions and Obfervations on the Fif- 

 teenth Chapter of Mr. Gibbon's Hiflory of the Decline 

 and Fall of the Roman Empire ; to which are added three 

 difTertations : I. On the ParouCa of Chrifl ; 2. On the Mil- 

 lennium ; 3. On the late Rev. Mr. Richard Wood, on Pro- 

 phecy," 1781. — " Farther Thoughts on the Nature of the 

 Grand Apoflacy of the Clu"iflian Churches, foretold by the 

 Apoftles ; witli Obfervations on the Laws againft Herefy, 

 the Subfcription to Articles of Human Compofition, and 

 other Subjefts of the utmofl Importance to the Religion of Pro- 

 teftants, and to Chriflianity in general," 1783. — " Confider- 

 ations on Ancient and Modern Creeds compared ; the Supre- 

 macy of the Father ; the perfon;d Exiflence of the Holy Spi- 

 rit ; the Pre-exiflenceof Chrifl and hisDivinity,&c." publifhed 

 after the author's death by his fon, the Rev. Henry Taylor, 

 reftor of Spridlington, Lincolnlhire, 1788. 



Mr. Taylor, who was of a fprightly, cheerful difpofition, 

 occafionally amufed himfelf in writing verfes ; fome of 

 which, particularly his " Paradife Regained," are publifhed 

 in Dodfley's Collection. 



On Mr. Taylor's principles and charafter it is needlefs to 

 enlarge. Hisconduft in private and focial life correfpondcd 

 to his clerical profeflion : to the fentiments of bifhop Hoadley, 

 in church and flate, hcw.is invariably attached ; he joined the 



petitioning 



