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BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
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Brief Account gfthe Rev . Henry Taylor , by the Rev . F . Stdne . 3 O , Garden-row , Southward , Feb . 16 , 1813 . Dear Sir , To fulfil ray long-protracted intention to communicate to you particulars respecting my muchiesteemed uncle * in-law , which came
within my own knowledge , I can . not spe < c $ ^ Jh ^ jplaCe of birth , tut t have reason to think he was * native of Essex , as he was owner of a real estate in that county , which entitled him to a vote for t $ L 9 two kuights of parliament . I believe that this estate of the Rev .
Henry Taylor lay at South Weald , iteaf Brent wood . His father , a gcntlem ^ ft , whose baptismal name might be Edward , I barely remember , having seen him but once , and when I Jvas very young . He jfa&X # m > * 9 ? a very ready wit > * l \ 4 author of that well known
humourous tale , in verse , " Numps , & f tk& A ^ py le-pye . " Nor was his ^ , | n % ior \ io hirxJL in wi tticism , a © void of the , asperity of lashiag
• fctfine and biting sarcasm . He was S 0 pleasant a companion , that , at t&w&ble , jhe ^ has be ? u known , like ^^ w * p «« e > Yorkk , to «* set it in
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a roar 5 ' of laughter . If the clergy of the Church of Rome , and those of your grayer correspondents , whose features , however , may sometimes relax into a smile , will Dot be offended , you may publish his following epigrammatic Jeu
d * esprit on the crew of a ship in distress , all members of the Church of Rome . < It blew a hard storm , and , . in utmost confusion , The sailors all hurried to get absolution . This done , and the load of the sins they
confessed ¦ ¦¦ & •? Were transferred , as they thought , from themselves to the priest . To li g hten the ship and conclude their devotion , . •*¦ - They tossed the poor parson souse injfcw the ocean * * <<<*
He was also the auth or , of ran elegant copy of verses an the 'fc ^ licity of a married pair , entitled u Paradise Regained , " for which I refer you to a volume of" Dcids * ley ' s Collection of Poems . " Mr . Taylor was educated at Pi * . N e $ - corne r s school , ilacka ^ y f wli ^ re he formed connections among his
schoolfellows , which wefe b £ csrsential beoefit M . Jt | ji ^' ' tli ^ ug ^ . !|!]^ - On leaving schooU W PM' ^ mt ; ted a member vf Quee | i a College , Cambridge alid / I ihiitik , became ^ ieUow <> $ ^ j B »* H « # M ?® r fansd 4 b « « a « i * l f « Hy ^ y » iB 9 i p % *¦ 'h ¦ # •' " •• .:: )( .. - . v- itfr * \' * - * , y f * i '» . »• - ¦ . . s * ¦ ' ' . ' ) ' £ ; T > " ni .- ' , ¦* "{ , h- ' * .,- •* - ' * ' ¦ '
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» iON 111 L . Y REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .
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No . LXXXiX . MAY . [ Vol . VIII *
Biography And History.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/1/
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