The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. With a Critical Examination of His Writings by Rev. Reginald Heber (HQ715)

Published 1828: Third Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece

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The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. With a Critical Examination of His Writings by Rev. Reginald Heber.

Taylor, Jeremy (1613–67), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor, was born in Cambridge, England, third son and fourth among six children of Nathaniel Taylor, barber, and his wife Mary Dean; he was baptised 15 August 1613.

Lord Conway's household 1658–60 It was in London that he met his future patron Edward Conway (qv), 3rd Viscount Conway and Killultagh, and his learned wife Anne Conway (qv). When Conway offered him a lectureship at Lisnagarvey, Co. Antrim, he turned it down; but soon poverty and his wife's pregnancy changed his mind about settling in Ireland, and Conway appointed him chaplain to his household at Portmore. At first the authorities refused him permission to travel, but the influential Conway procured a pass from the lord protector, Oliver Cromwell (qv). While Conway did not travel to Ireland till 1661, his brother-in-law George Rawdon (qv) looked after the practical needs of Taylor and his family, who stayed with Rawdon for a time at his home in Lisnagarvey. Taylor seems to have been in Ireland from July 1658. He did not hold any incumbency but took services, preached, and above all else worked on the final stages of Ductor dubitantium, his manual for resolving moral dilemmas, which he intended as a protestant replacement for the Roman catholic manuals of casuistry which it emulated. Presbyterians disliked his presence in Antrim, and in June 1659 an Independent minister reported him to the authorities for using the sign of the cross when administering baptism. This might have led to prosecution and imprisonment but, by the time he answered a summons to Dublin, the December coup d’état had removed any threat of further proceedings.

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