William Taylor

was born at Kighley in Yorks. 30. Sept. 1616. entred a Batler in Magd. Hall in 1631, took one degree in Arts, was made Schoolmaster of Keniton or Keynton in Herefordshire, proceeded in his faculty, went to Cirencester in Glocestershire about the latter end of 1639, became Schoolmaster there in the place of Henry Toppe, then ejected by the puritanical Townsmen. But that Town being taken by storm by the Royal party, 2. Feb. 1642, Toppe was restored. So that Taylor retiring to London, became Preacher at Bowe near that City, and afterwards Minister of S. Stephens Church in Colemanstreet, in the place of Joh. Goodwin turn’d out by the Parliament. But he meeting with opposition there, he exercised his function for some time in a Church in Woodstreet, and kept a Lecture at S. Giles near Cripplegate every Sunday, and another Lecture on a week day at S. Peters Cornhill. Afterwards being recalled by the Rump Parliament to S. Stephens, he kept it to his dying day. He was a frequent Preacher, not only in his own, but in other Churches and a laborious and learned man in his profession. He hath written and published,

Sermons as (1) Serm. on Phil. 2.10. and others, as ’tis said, which I have not yet seen; and also collected and reviewed several of Mr. Christop. Loves Sermons before they went to the press, and set epistles before some of them. He died on the fifth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred sixty and one, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Stephen beforemention’d,1661. at which time Dr. William Spurstow of Hackney preached his funeral Sermon, wherein he spoke many things to his honour, which for brevity sake I now omit. This Will. Taylor tho he was a zealous Presbyterian, yet he was a lover of the King in all revolutions, as a Doctor of his perswasion hath often told me.