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Benefice, and retired into Wales , where he kept afchool. During this retirement, he wrote many ofhis mod valuable works.

“ Biihop Taylor was certainly one of the great-efl Divines that flourifhed in the ieventeenth cen-tury, and alfo one of the complete!! characters ofhis age. His perfon was uncommonly beautiful, hismanners polite, his converfation fprightly and en-gaging, and his voice was uncommonly harmonious.He united, in a high degree, the powers of inven-tion, memory, and judgment; his learning was va-rious, almoft univerfal; and his piety was as unaf-fected as it was exemplary. His practical, contro-verfial, and cafuiltical writings, are in their feveralkinds excellent, and anfwer all the puipofes of aChriflian. His Sermons now appear to lefs advan-tage, though they mult be allowed to have been ex-tremely good at the time they were written. Hisworks have been frequently printed, and thofe onHoly Living, Holy Dying, and his Golden Grove,have palled through many editions.”

Francis Marsh, Biihop of Limerick , 1667,

' afterwards Archbi/hop of Dublin .

Dr. Hartstrong, Biihop of OlTory, in Ireland ,1693.

Francis White, Biihop of Ely, 1713, 13thAnne.

Dr. Thomas Gooch, Biihop of Norwich,

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