of doctor of civil law at Oxford, on the same day with Taylor. At the restoration he was appointed governor of Guernsey, and a privy counsellor. How Taylor valued this noble person is best expressed in his own language; conveyed in the epistle dedicatory, prefixed to the "Great Exemplar."

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My lord," he says, "Although the results "and issues of my retirements and study, do "naturally run towards you, and carry no "excuse for their forwardness, but the confi"dence that your goodness rejects no emana"tion of a great affection, yet in this address "I am apt to promise myself a fair inter"pretation, because I bring you an Instru"ment, and auxiliaries to that devotion, "whereby we believe you are dear to God, and "know that you are, to good men."

Sir Christopher appears to have been a person of no ordinary merit: for Taylor in another part of his works speaks of "his wisdom and

learning, the great reputation he had abroad "and the honour he had at home; that he had "secured to himself a great name in all the "registers of honour by his skill and love to

all things that are excellent; that he was

"loved and honoured by the beauties of his virtue, and the sweetness of his disposition, by his worthy employments at court, and his being so beloved in his country, by the value "his friends put upon him, and the regard that strangers paid to him, by his zeal for the "church, and his busy care in the promoting "all worthy learning, by his religion and his "nobleness."

We have stated that about the time of Taylor's institution to Uppingham, he was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary; and being warmly attached to his royal master, the fortune of the one involved to a great degree that of the other. It is with reason presumed that he quitted Uppingham at the latter end of the summer of the year 1642; and from that time he must be considered as bearing his part in the public calamity.

On the twenty-second of August of the same year, the King erected his standard at Nottingham, and proceeded by a circuitous march to Oxford. Taylor was called upon to attend his Majesty in his capacity of chaplain,

* His handwriting is not met with in the registers at Uppingham after that time.

and might possibly have joined the army at that time, as its route lay at a short distance from his residence at Uppingham. The King after the battle of Edgehill, on the 23d of October, pursued his course on the following day towards the University, and in his way forced the garrison at Banbury to surrender; and he occupied the time between the 23d of October and the 11th of the succeeding month in advancing through Oxford and Reading to Colnbrook, with the intention of proceeding to the capital; but, finding his march obstructed by the superiority of the forces opposed to him, he returned to the University, and resided for some time at Christ Church. During this cessation from conflict, Wood relates, that "it was his Majesty's pleasure that "there should be a creation in all faculties, of "such as had either done him service in the "late battle, or had retired to him at Oxford "for shelter, to avoid the barbarities of the "Presbyterians, then very frequent through" out the nation. Accordingly a 'convocation.

This convocation is denominated the Caroline, and in Liber. Convocationis Univ. Oxon. Archiv. S. B. 25, 1641 —1647, is called "celeberrima convocatione." The King himself signed the book in the margin "Charles R." So numerous were the degrees, that "darkness coming on "before the business was concluded, the convocation was

"was held on the 1st of November, a con " vocation memorable both for the number of degrees created, and the persons upon whom they were conferred. Amongst these Taylor "is conspicuous." But whilst he was receiving the honour of his degree, he was losing the subsistence which his benefice had afforded him. For on the 15th of the preceding October, the Parliament had resolved," that the fines, rents, and profits of archbishops,

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bishops, deans, and chapters, and of such "notorious delinquents as had taken up arms "against the Parliament, or had been active "in the commission of array, should be se"questered for the use and service of the "commonwealth."

The destruction of churches followed. The organs, painted windows, and monuments were defaced. Tithes were refused to those who read the Common Prayer; and the regular divines were plundered, their livings sequestered, and themselves driven away, to make room for schismatics and enthusiasts.

"adjourned to the next day." Charles Prince of Wales, and James Duke of York, were then created Masters of Arts.

After this time we have no trace of Taylor on his benefice at Uppingham. And as the next year commenced with the prosecution of the treaty between the parliamentary commissioners and the King, then at Oxford, it may be presumed that he was now in attendance on his royal master; who remained in that city until August, having been joined by the Queen on the 13th of July.

Being one of the King's retinue, he is reported to have accompanied the army, which was before Gloucester on the 10th of that month, and at Newbury on the 20th of October. But the loss sustained by the royal forces at

Though Taylor was compelled to leave his benefice, which was sequestered, it does not appear that he relinquished his claim to it. For no rector occurs between his departure and the year 1661, when John Allington signs himself as such. In the mean time, viz. at Easter, 1642, Anthony Harvey signs himself, as acting in the choice of a churchwarden, for the rector" in nomine et "potestate ejus." During the ten years following no record seems to have been made of the choice of officers; but on the 20th of April 1652, Daniel Swift is mentioned as choosing a churchwarden, and subscribes himself, "Pastor de Uppingham." From this date to the Easter of 1661 no signature occurs, either of rector or pastor. John Allington then signs himself "Rector there," and he was probably the same as had been curate in 1631. Hence it appears that no person had subscribed himself rector of the parish, between the time of Taylor's sequestration and the year 1'661, when he was raised to the mitre.