Verse
Job's Curse (‘Let the Night perish curs'd by ye Morn’)
Published, as one of the ‘Festival Hymns’ in The Golden Grove (London, 1655). A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Harmonia Sacra (London, 1688).
TaJ 1
Copy, ‘transcribed apparently from the original MS by J. F. in April 1695’ and ‘written in a neat hand, 1695, folio’. 1695.
Thomas Rodd, ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Southwellianæ’ (1834), item 1035, and his ‘Catalogue of manuscripts...and old deeds’ (1846), p. 96.
TaJ 2
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in a music book.
Recorded by Franklin B. Zimmerman in Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 191.
TaJ 3
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
In: An oblong folio music book, compiled by Simon Child, organist of Christ Church, Oxford, 98 leaves. c.1700.
Recorded by Franklin B. Zimmerman in Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 191.
TaJ 5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
In: A large folio music book, almost entirely in a single rounded hand, 146 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco. c.1700.
Notes (f. 2r) by a son of Dr Williams recording his purchase of the volume from the widdow of Simon Child, organist of New College, Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Phil: Hayes 1757’ and ‘The Gift of Mrs Cave’. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and Stephen Groombridge, FRS. Bought at Groombridge's sale by J. Smith of Deptford and presented by him in November 1832 to Vincent Novello (1781-1861), music publisher. Acquired by his bequest on 21 March 1887.
TaJ 6
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
In: Purcell's predominantly autograph folio Score Booke Containing Severall Anthems wth. Sy[m]phonies. c.1690.
TaJ 7
Copy, in a musical setting by Purcell.
In: A folio music book. End of 17th century.
Recorded by Franklin B. Zimmerman in Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 191.
University of Birmingham, Barber Institute, MS 5002, pp. 64-6.
TaJ 7.5
Extracts from ‘Job's Curse’.
In: A quarto volume entitled ‘Miscellany Poems, By Severall Hands. Collected by B. Cumberlege’, in various hands or styles of script, with occasional pen-and-ink drawings and use of coloured inks, xiv + 195 pages, including a table of contents, in later calf. c.1703.
Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.
On the Conversion of St Paul (‘Full of wrath, his threat'ning breath’)
Published, as one of the ‘Festival Hymns’ in The Golden Grove (London, 1655).
TaJ 8
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
In: A volume of anthems by various composers, 172 leaves. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Recorded by Franklin B. Zimmerman in Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963).
A Penitential Hymn (‘Great God and just’)
Published, as one of the ‘Festival Hymns’ in The Golden Grove (London, 1655).
TaJ 9
Copy, in Purcell's musical setting.
In: the MS described under TaJ 7. End of 17th century.
Recorded by Franklin B. Zimmerman in Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963).
University of Birmingham, Barber Institute, MS 5002, pp. 74-6.
Prose
A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer in Cases Ordinary and Extraordinary
First published in London, 1658.
TaJ 10
Copy of the discourse ‘Of Prayer’.
In: A quarto volume of chiefly religious tracts and verse, in a single italic hand, iv + 228 leaves, imperfect, disbound. Compiled by Thomas Sparrow, BA, of London. c.1658-61.
Donated by Arthur Freeman, March 1999.
A Discourse of Friendship
First published, as ‘Mutual friends’ and dedicated to Katherine Philips, in London, 1657. Eden, I, 69-98.
TaJ 11
A copy, ‘written in a neat hand, 1695, folio’. 1695.
Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts, 1846, p. 96. Formerly IELM, II.ii, TaJ 1.
TaJ 12
A formal copy of four lines of verse, untitled, beginning ‘Let god give friends to me for my reward’, subscribed ‘Winnifred Barrington’, in (pp. 13-16) a series of moral sentences dated 13-27 September 1675, on an oblong octavo-size page. 1675.
In: An unbound bundle f miscellaneous papers.
Volume CCCXXXIX (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.
Verses headed in the published discourse of 1657 ‘Mutual Friends’.
TaJ 13
Extracts, under the heading ‘Friendship’, inscribed in the margin ‘Taken out of ye office of friendship by Dr Taylor’.
In: A small quarto commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, viii + 335 pages (including blanks, plus numerous others to p. [374]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by Thomas Fane (1683-1736), sixth Earl of Westmorland. Early 18th century.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 28, pp. 304-8.
A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland
First published in Dublin, 1664.
TaJ 14
A six-line extract.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, chiefly in one hand, 231 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘White Kennett ex aulâ Scti Edmundi apud Oxonienses: Octobris 18mo 1678’, being Volume II of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. c.1678.
Ductor Dubitantium or The Rule of Conscience
First published in London, 1660.
TaJ 15
A MS abridgement. Made by W.H. for the use of Lord Fitzmaurice. 1757.
TaJ 16
Extracts.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in two or more hands, written from both ends, iv + 200 pages + 168 pages reversed, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Owned, and possibly compiled in part, by John Branthwaite (1643-95), rector of Harrington, Cumberland. (his deleted inscription on p. 1 rev.). Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘A. G. Osaph from C W Corrie 2 Nov. 1904’.
TaJ 17
Extracts, ‘out of Ductor Dubitantium p Dr Jeremy Taylor’, in a predominantly secretary hand.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 160 leaves (including numerous blanks), in 19th-century half-calf. Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the ‘Custome Masters’ of Great Yarmouth.
The Golden Grove
First published in London 1655. Edited by L.P. Smith (Oxford, 1930).
TaJ 18
Extracts.
In: A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf. Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Early 18th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS II’: PsK Δ 7.
TaJ 19
Extracts, as ‘by Ier Taylor. DD. printed 1656.’
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards. Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent. c.1642-70.
Inscribed ‘Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
The Great Exemplar
First published in London, 1649.
TaJ 20
Copy of the dedicatory epistle, headed ‘Octo Beatitudines The eight Beatitudes or Blessednesses’, subscribed ‘Dr Tayler’.
In: the MS described under TaJ 10. c.1658-61.
TaJ 21
Extracts, headed ‘The great exemplar’.
In: A folio commonplace book of extracts, in a small predominantly italic hand, 174 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1660.
Numerous names inscribed on the front pastedown and f. 2r, including ‘This was Mr Jno White's’, ‘John Lambert and Elinor Corneforth married the 22 June. 1659’, ‘Jane Todd Maij 13. 1655’, and members of the Jackson and Johnson families. Bookplate of John Towlerton Leather (1804-85), hydraulic engineer, inscribed ‘Ex libris Brent Maxfield’.
On the Reverence Due to the Altar
First published, edited by the Rev. John Barrow (Oxford & London, 1848). Eden, V, 315-38.
*TaJ 22
Autograph fair copy of an epistolary tract, with some added marginal notes and revisions, untitled, a title-page added in the hand of Thomas Barlow, ‘A Tract. To proue that to bow towards the Altar, is not onely permissu, and soe licitu, but prceptu, and soe necessariu./Dr. J. Taylor (in male memini) was the Author of it’; written on 38 quarto leaves (almost entirely on rectos only). c. late 1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts, 346 leaves. Assembled by Dr Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bishop of Lincoln.
Edited from this MS in Barrow and in Eden. Facsimile of f. 115 in Barrow, at end. For a facsimile of f. 104, see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XV. Formerly cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TaJ 2.
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
First published in London, 1651.
TaJ 23
Extracts, inscribed Taylor's holy living and dying.
In: A folio miscellany of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 351 leaves, in modern half brown morocco on marbled boards. c.1685-1700s.
Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
First published in London, 1650.
TaJ 24
Extracts, inscribed ‘Taylor's holy living and dying’.
In: the MS described under TaJ 23. c.1685-1700s.
TaJ 26
Extracts, headed ‘Of Repentance...out of Dr Taylor Holy Leveing’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of largely devotional extracts, some under subject headings, closely written in a single predominantly italic hand, 52 pages, in contemporary limp vellum wrapper inscribed ‘Spiritual Rules collected out of the Bible’, within modern quarter-morocco. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed inside the wrapper ‘Hugh Nanney his booke’.
A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of Sr George Dalston
First published in London, 1658. Eden, VIII, 541-70.
TaJ 27
Copy, headed ‘A Sermon Preachd at ye funurell of yt worthy knight Sr George Dalston of Dalston in Cumberland Sept: 26 1657. By J:T: D.D. iCor: 15. 19’. Neatly written on six folio leaves bound-in at the end of a composite volume of printed works by Taylor (1666-8). Late 17th century.
Formerly cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TaJ 3.
Sermons
A number of Taylor's sermons published in several volumes between 1638 and 1667: see Bibliography (1971).
TaJ 28
Notes taken from Taylor's ‘epsle to a sermon prach'd…in Ireld. maij 8, 166i’ [i.e. at the opening of the Irish Parliament] and from his ‘Consecracon Sermon’ [on 27 January 1660/1].
In: A quarto theological notebook, in English and Latin, 65 leaves. Late 17th century.
Full texts of the sermons are in Eden, VIII, 333-58, and VIII, 309-30.
TaJ 29
Evelyn's notes on eight sermons delivered by Taylor in 1654-58, in London, on texts including 5, 6, and 14 Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and 13 Luke, on ff. 32v, 34r, 45r-9r, and 51v-2v.
In: A folio volume of sermon notes in Evelyn's hand, iii + 151 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650-87.
Volume CXCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 49.
This MS recorded in de Beer, I, 83; Discussed in W.J. Brown, ‘Jeremy Taylor Sermons’, TLS, 11 January 1952, p. 25 (where a mistaken reference is given to a sermon of 6 August 1654, which is not by Taylor).
TaJ 30
Extracts from Taylor's sermon at the funeral of Archbishop Bramhall, 16 July 1663, on a single octavo page.
In: An unbound collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, in a single secretary hand. Late 17th century.
Unum Necessarium
First published in London, 1655.
TaJ 31
Extracts, headed ‘Dr: Tayler. of Repent:: Ch: 5. Sect. 5. numb: 56.’ and from Nos 65, 66 and 30.
In: An octavo notebook of largely ecclesiastical prose and some verse, chiefly in Latin, English and French, in a cursive italic hand, possibly a second hand on ff. 59r-66r, written from both ends, 96 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. Compiled probably by an English cleric in France, who writes (f. 1v) ‘I came to Maule. Aug. 16th at night, 1656’ and (f. 16r) records visiting Lord Hatton at his house in St Germains, Paris, where he is shown books and manuscripts, on 1 August NS 1656. c.1656-8.
Christie's, 27 March 1985, lot 154.
TaJ 32
Extracts, headed ‘Vnum mecessarium, or the doctrine and practise of repentance. By Jer: Taylor’.
In: the MS described under TaJ 21. c.1660.
Via intelligentiæ
First published in London, 1662.
TaJ 33
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘A Sermon Preached to the University of Dublin by Jeremy Taylor, on John 7. 17’, twelve folio leaves, in boards. Early 18th century.
Letters
Letter(s)
*TaJ 34
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, [c.1640s]. c.1640s?.
In: A large octavo volume comprising three letters by Jeremy Taylor.
Facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 40.
*TaJ 35
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, ‘Wensday morning’, [c1643-5]. c.1643-5.
In: the MS described under TaJ 34.
Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XC(c).
*TaJ 36
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Dr E. Langsdale, 24 November 1643 [or 1653?]. 1643/53?.
In: A folio composite volume of letters by bishops and archbishops, in numerous hands, alphabetically arranged, 309 leaves. Collected by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.
Bought at the sale of Thoresby's museum in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
Edited in Eden, I, xxv-xxvi.
*TaJ 37
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Dr Richard Bayley, 24 December 1648. 1648.
In: A folio composite volume of chiefly state letters and papers for 1648, in various hands, 560 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-282 and 284-560 respectively.
Edited in Eden, I, cclxii-cclxiii.
TaJ 38
Copy by Dr Meade of Taylor's letter to Richard Bayley, 24 December 1648. c.1648.
In: the MS described under TaJ 34.
*TaJ 39
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to William Dugdale, from Golden Grove, 1 April 1651. imperfect. 1651.
In:
Edited in William Hamper, The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827), No. lxv (pp. 250-1). Reprinted from thence in Eden, I, xxxv.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Bundle V in Horse-hair trunk, No. 27.
TaJ 40
Autograph letter by Taylor, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 11 April 1653. 1653.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous and state letters and papers, chiefly 1653-8, in various hands, 233 leaves.
Edited in Eden, I, xxviii-xxix.
*TaJ 41
Autograph letter signed, to John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, from Mandinam, 17 November 1655. 1655.
Sotheby's, 29 June 1891 (Thomas Raffles sale, 3rd day), lot 485, to Sotheran.
Edited in Eden, I, xliv-xlv.
*TaJ 42
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], [? from Mandinam], 21 November 1655. 1655.
Later in the library of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Subsequently in the collection of Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde (Viscountess Eccles), Life, 4.4. 294.
Recorded in R.B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 234. Edited in Bray, II, i, 151-2. Eden, I, xlv-xlvi. Wheatley, III, 208-9.
TaJ 43
Copy of a letter by Taylor, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 19 January 1655/6. 1656.
In: the MS described under TaJ 40.
Edited in Eden, I, lvi-lvii.
*TaJ 44
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], St Paul's Conversion [25 January] 1655/6. 1656.
Sotheby's (Evans), 16 November 1836, lot 698. Sotheby's, 6 February 1865, lot 934, to Ellis.
Edited in Eden, I, xlviii-xlix. Wheatley, III, 209-11.
*TaJ 45
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, 16 February 1655/6. 1656.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers relating to John Warner (1581-1666), Bishop of Rochester, 120 leaves.
TaJ 46
Copy, by Birch, of a letter by Taylor to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, [early 1656]. 18th century.
In: A large quarto volume of letters etc., in various hands, 280 leaves.
Volume III of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
Edited in Eden, I, xlix-l.
*TaJ 47
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 16 April, 1656. 1656.
Anderson Galleries, New York, sale No. 2275 (George D. Smith Book Company liquidation sale, Part 3), 18 May 1928, lot 240.
Edited in Bray, II, i, 164-6; Eden, I, l-lii; Wheatley, III, 211-13.
*TaJ 48
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], [? from Llangadock], 19 July 1656. 1656.
Sotheby's, 27 November 1945.
Edied in Eden, I, lii-liii; Wheatley, III, 215-17.
*TaJ 49
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 23 August 1656. 1656.
Edited in Eden, I, liv-lv.
*TaJ 50
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 15 November 1656. 1656.
Possibly the letter in Thomas Thorpe's sale ‘Catalogue of Autograph Letters’ for 1836, lot 1051, which is dated there 15 October 1656. Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 840, 13 June 1911, 19 February 1913, 24 July 1916, and 23 April 1923, lot 274, to Baker.
Edited in Eden, I, lv-lvi. Wheatley, III, 217-19.
*TaJ 51
Autograph letter signed, to William Dugdale, 22 November 1656.
Sotheby's, 27 July 1885 (F. Naylor sale, 4th day), lot 934, to Harvey.
Edited in William Hamper, The Life, Diary and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827), No. cxi (p. 317). Reprinted in Eden, I, lviii.
*TaJ 52
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [? John Evelyn], 22 February 1656/7. 1657.
In: the MS described under TaJ 36.
Edited in Eden, I, lxi-lxii; Wheatley, III, 233-4. Facsimile in Conway Letters, ed. Marjorie Hope Nicolson (New Haven, 1930), after p. 118.
TaJ 53
Copy, in the hand of John Evelyn, of a letter by Taylor to [? Evelyn], from Ivy Lane, 21 March 1656/7. 1657.
In: the MS described under TaJ 40.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxvi (where the date is given as 1657/8).
*TaJ 54
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], 15 May 1657. 1657.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands.
Sotheby's (Evans), 13 February 1833, lot 187.
Edited in Bray, II, i, 172-3. Eden, I, lxiv-lxv. Wheatley, III, 237-8.
TaJ 55
An extract, in the hand of John Evelyn, of a letter by Taylor to [Evelyn], 2 June 1657. c.1657.
In: the MS described under TaJ 40.
Edited in Eden, I, lxvi.
*TaJ 56
Autograph letter signed, to [John Evelyn], 9 June 1657 (the verso containing Evelyn's draft reply). 1657.
In: Miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, 1656-1700.
Thomas Rodd's sale catalogues, [1836], p. 16, and 1838, p. 87. Puttick & Simpson, 19 March 1850, lot 385.
Edited in Bray, II, i, 174. Eden, I, lxv-lxvi. Wheatley, III, 238-40. Facsimile in The Autograph Portfolio; A Collection of Fac-simile Letters from Eminent Persons (London, 1837).
*TaJ 57
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, discussing religion, [? from London], 29 August 1657. 1657.
Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue for 1838, item 1108. Puttick & Simpson, 11 July 1878, item 214. Sotheby's, 16 April 1918, to Maggs. Afterwards in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 416. Quaritch's sale catalogues No. 938 (1974), item 152, and No. 1013 (1981), item 78, with a facsimile in the catalogue.
Edited in Eden, I, lxvi-lxviii; Wheatley, III, 240-4. Edited, with facsimile examples, in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), VI, 231-2. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library (RP 2795).
*TaJ 58
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Lady Annabella Howe, [from London], 29 August 1657. 1657.
Sotheby's, 6 December 1921, to Maggs, 14 July 1931 to Maggs, 29 October 1945, lot 47, and 29 June 1982, lot 267.
Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library (RP 2785).
*TaJ 59
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, [from London], 19 December 1657. 1657.
In: the MS described under TaJ 40.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxii.
*TaJ 60
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Robert Rich, [from London], 13 February 1657[/8]. 1658.
Edited in Abstracts of some Letters Written by Mr. Robert Rich (London, 1680). Reprinted in Eden, I, lxxiv.
*TaJ 61
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, [from London], 17 February 1657/8. 1678.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 174, t Skeffington, 27 May 1887, lot 389, and 10 December 1918, to Halliday. Later owned by F.W. Joy.
Edited in Bray, II, i, 176-8. Eden, I, lxxv-lxxvi. Wheatley, III, 245-7.
*TaJ 61.5
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Lord Conway, from London, 24 April 1658. 1658.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 175, to Skeffington.
*TaJ 62
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], 12 May 1658, now lacking the signature. 1658.
In: the MS described under TaJ 56.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxviii-lxxix. Wheatley, III, 248-9.
*TaJ 63
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [the Countess of Rutland], from Annesley, 21 June 1658. 1658.
In: A composite volume of state letters and papers.
Edited in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix 5, Rutland II (1889), pp. 5-6.
The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Vol. XVIII, [unspecified page numbers].
*TaJ 64
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 26 February 1658/9. 1659.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 176, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 119, 125. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 191-2. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 65
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, 10 March 1658/9. 1659.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 177, to Skeffington.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 192-3. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 66
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, from Lisnegarvy, 9 April 1659. 1659.
Sotheby's (Evans), 13 February 1833, lot 188, to Cockran.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxx-lxxxii. Wheatley, III, 253-5.
*TaJ 67
Autograph letter signed, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 9 April 1659. 1659.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 179, to Skeffington. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 417.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 119, 125. Edited from the transcript in Stranks, pp. 193-5. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 68
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], from Portmore, 4 June 1659. 1659.
Sotheby's (Evans), 9 July 1832, lot 75. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans's (Sotheby's), 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 284, to Thorpe.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxxii-lxxxiv. Wheatley, III, 256-60.
*TaJ 69
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, from Portmore, 3 November 1659. 1659.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxxvii-lxxxviii. Wheatley, III, 274-5.
*TaJ 70
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, in Latin, to John Stearne, [1659]. 1659.
Edited in John Stearne, Thanatologia; seu de morte dissertatio (Dublin, 1659). Reprinted in Eden, I, lxxxvi-lxxxvii.
TaJ 71
Copy, by Anthony Dopping (1643-97), Bishop of Kildare and of Meath, of a letter by Taylor to Mr Graham, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, from Portmore, 13 January 1659/60.
Edited in Eden, I, lxxxviii-xc.
*TaJ 72
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, ‘St Paul's Conversion’ [25 January] 1659[/60?]. 1660.
Evans's (Sotheby's), 16 November 1836, lot 698.
*TaJ 73
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, from Portmore, 10 February 1659/60. 1660.
Sotheby's (Evans), 9 July 1832, lot 74. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's (Evans)), 10 February 1836 (Heber sale), Part XI), lot 285, to Thorpe. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 77 (1972), in item 91.
Edited in Eden, I, xc-xci. Wheatley, III, 275-7. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 46.
*TaJ 74
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Captain Charles Twig, from Hillsborough, 22 October 1660. 1660.
Edited in H. J. Lawlor, ‘Two Letters of Jeremy Taylor’, Church of Ireland Gazette, 43 (14 June 1901), 482-3.
*TaJ 75
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Hugh, Viscount Montgomery, from Hillsborough, 27 October 1660. 1660.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence and state papers, chiefy of the Duke of Ormonde, in various hands, 1660-2, 613 leaves.
Edited in H.J. Lawlor, ‘Two Letters of Jeremy Taylor’, Church of Ireland Gazette, 43 (14 June 1901), 482-3.
*TaJ 76
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Dublin, 2 January 1660/1. 1661.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 181, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 121. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 225-6. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 77
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Hillsborough, 2 March 1660/1. 1661.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 180, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 120, 122. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 233-4. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 78
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 13 April 1661. 1661.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 183-4 (Letter II).
*TaJ 79
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 27 September [1661]. 1661.
*TaJ 80
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 11 November 1661. 1661.
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Gluck Collection, [no shelfmark].
*TaJ 81
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, from Dublin, 16 November 1661. 1661.
Holloway & Son, London, sale catalogue of ‘Autographs and Manuscripts’, [c.1870], item 637.
Edited in Eden, I, cvii-cviii. Wheatley, III, 281-2. Facsimile example in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 28. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library, RP 1396.
*TaJ 82
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, from Dublin, 23 November 1661. 1661.
In: A folio composite volume of letters by English and Irish prelates, chiefly addressed to Chistopher Hatton, first Viscount Hatton, in various hands, over 113 leaves.
Edited in Correspondence of the Family of Hatton, ed. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 2 vols, Camden Society (London 1878), I, 26-7. Facsimile in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical & Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 96.
*TaJ 83
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, ‘S. Andrew’, [30 November] 1661. 1661.
Sotheby's, 21 May 1890, lot 114.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 185-6 (Letter III).
*TaJ 84
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [undated, but c.1661]. c.1661.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 127. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, p. 234. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 85
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 5 February 1661[/2]. 1662.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 181-2 (Letter I).
*TaJ 86
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Hillsborough, 8 February 1661/2. 1662.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Gratz Collection, Case 10, Box 35, [unnumbered item].
*TaJ 87
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Dublin, 6 May 1662. 1662.
Sotheby's, 10 December 1918, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2309.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 186-8 (Letter IV).
*TaJ 88
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to William Warren, 16 June 1662. 1662.
Edited in Edward Dupré Atkinson, An Ulster Parish: Being a History of Domaghcloney (Waringstown) (Dublin, 1898), p. 28.
*TaJ 89
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, 18 June 1662. 1662.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 182, to Skeffington.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 249 (where the letter is incorrectly dated January). Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 90
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Portmore, 9 July 1662. 1662.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2307.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 188-9 (Letter V).
TaJ 91
A letter by Taylor, in Latin, to [the Duke of Ormonde], entirely in the hand of an amanuensis, [22 or 26 July 1662]. 1662.
Edited, with an English translation, in Williams, ATR (1976), 193 (Letter VIII).
*TaJ 92
Letter by Taylor, to William Hamond, from Dublin, 2 August 1662, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Taylor. 1662.
In: the MS described under TaJ 82.
*TaJ 93
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [October 1662]. 1662.
Sotheby's, 16 April 1918, to Tregaskis. Later in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 191-2 (Letter VII). Edited, with a facsimile of the subscription, in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), VI, 232.
*TaJ 94
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, from Portmore, 31 December 1662. 1662.
Sotheby's, 10 December 1918, to Maggs. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2308. Formerly Osborn Files/Taylor.
Edited in Williams, ATR (1976), 190-1 (Letter VI).
*TaJ 95
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Cork [‘2 pages, 8vo, with superscription’], 4 April 1663. 1663.
Offered in unidentified early 20th-century sale catalogue.
*TaJ 96
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Cork, from Portmore, 17 June 1663. 1663.
Haverford College, Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection, MS Coll. 405.
*TaJ 97
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Hugh, seventh Earl of Eglintoun, from Portmore, 7 December 1663. 1663.
Edited in William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton, 2 vols (Edinburgh, 1859), I, 313-14, with a facsimile of the signature.
*TaJ 98
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Portmore, 25 May 1664. 1664.
In: A composite volume of letters by Scottish and Irish bishops, 1661-9.
Among papers of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Edited in Eden, I, cxix, cxx.
*TaJ 99
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 28 January 1664/5. 1665.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 183, to Skeffington.
Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 122. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 258-9. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 100
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to an unspecified correspondent, from Portmore, 2 December 1665. 1665.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1889, lot 608, to Sabin (described as ‘1 page, 4°, defective’) and Sotheby's, 4 November 1898, lot 250, to Waller (described as ‘damaged and signature nearly gone’). Bonham's, 28 September 2004 (Enys Collection sale), lot 403.
*TaJ 101
Fragment of an autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [undated, but after 25 July 1666]. 1666.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 269. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
*TaJ 102
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, ‘Lammas’, [1 August] 1666. 1666.
Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 184, to Skeffington.
Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 270. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).
Documents
Document(s)
*TaJ 103
The ‘Parish Register of Uppingham - 1571-1656’, in which the occasional page is signed ‘Jeremy Taylor Rector Ecclesiae’. 1638-42.
*TaJ 104
The ‘Churchwarden's Accounts 1633-1727’, in which a series of entries are made by Taylor, notably on ff. 27r, 30v-1v, 35v and 37r. c.1638-42.
Illustration of f. 31v and f. 32r (the latter in a different hand) in Stranks, facing p. 165.
*TaJ 105
A certificate signed by Taylor witnessing to the church attendance of John Hunt of Barrowden, Uppingham, 6 May 1641. 1641.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous official papers relating to Rutland, in various hands, 404 leaves. Volume IX of the Heath & Verney Papers, of Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649), Chief Justice, and his eldest sons, Sir Edward and Sir John Heath, among the papers of the Greville and Verney families, Barons Willoughby de Broke.
*TaJ 106
Two copies, in different scribal hands, of an opinion on toleration, both signed by Taylor and other Royal chaplains in answer to a question by Charles I, 28 August 1647. 1647.
In: A folio composite volume of largely state letters and papers for 1647, in various hands, 785 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-397 and 401-785 respectively.
Recorded in Stranks, p. 11.
*TaJ 107
A certificate signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, William Jones, [June?] 1660. 1660.
*TaJ 108
A certificate signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, John Bronwick, 7 July 1660.
*TaJ 109
A certificate signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, William Markelman, 6 August 1660. 1660.
*TaJ 109.5
A certificate of orthodoxy and loyalty signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, John Allington, [August?] 1660. 1660.
*TaJ 110
An order issued and signed by Lord Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, concerning ‘im propriate tythes’, in a professional hand, counter-signed by Taylor (‘Jerem: Dunensis’) and other bishops, on two conjugate folio leaves, 30 July 1662. 1662.
Recorded in HMC, 78, Hastings IV (1947), 141.
*TaJ 111
A certificate signed by Taylor and others in favour of a petitioner, Viscount Loftus of Ely, 27 August 1662. 1662.
Owned in the late 19th century by the Marquess of Drogheda, at Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, Ireland. Printed in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 318
Edited in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 318.
Presentation and Annotated Exempla of Taylor's Printed Works
A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying (London, 1647)
*TaJ 112
A presentation exemplum to Sir Justinian Isham, with Taylor's autograph inscription ‘For Sr. J. I. Bart. a Member of ye H. of Comons at Weston’. c.1647.
Formerly in the library of the Isham famiy at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 18 June 1904 (Isham sale), lot 322, to Stevens.
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (London, 1650)
*TaJ 113
A presentation exemplum to William Wyatt, inscribed ‘Ex dono Authoris’, with Taylor's autograph corrections and additions throughout, including the text of a long prayer (‘O Holy and heavenly Father who art seated in inaccessible light…’) on sig. S3v and a table of prayers on sig. S4r and on the end-paper. c.1650.
Discussed extensively, and the prayer edited, in Robert Gathorne-Hardy, ‘Jeremy Taylor's Annotations’, TLS, 20 September 1947, p. 484, and also in Bibliography (1971), p. 35.
Symbolon Athikopolemikon, or A Collection of Polemical and Moral Discourses (London, 1657)
TaJ 114
A presentation exemplum to Lord Conway, inscribed by him ‘Donum Authoris. 22. March. 1657. E:C:’. c.1657.
Recorded in Bibliography (1971), pp. 79-80.
XXVIII Sermons (London, 1651)
TaJ 115
Sir William Dugdale's printed exemplum inscribed on the flyleaf ‘Ex dono Authoris A°. 1651’. 1651.
TaJ 115.5
Extracts, headed ‘In Doctor Taylers second part of his answer to the Bisp: of Rochesters letter theire in three thing's wch: hee holds, & I thinke canot well be answer'd’.
In: the MS described under TaJ 31. c.1656-8.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Taylor
Extracts
TaJ 116
Extracts, headed ‘Dr Tayler of originall Sin. in his first part of his answer to ye Bishop: of Rochesters letter. pag: 10.’
In: the MS described under TaJ 31. c.1656-8.
TaJ 117
Extracts from Taylor's works, including his Life of Christ.
In: A folio volume of ‘Collections, historical, political, philosophical, moral and divine’, in a single hand, 380 leaves. c.1720.
TaJ 118
Extracts from ‘Dr Taylors’, headed variously ‘For Repentance’ (beginning ‘O Ld God father of our Ld Jesus...’), ‘Comforts agt a violent sudden death’ (beginning ‘Consider at wt gate thy sicknes entred...’), and ‘An Exhortation after Thanksgivinge agst death-bed repentance’ (beginning ‘God intended we should live an holy life...’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 81 leaves, in modern binding.
Among the collections of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury. Subsequently owned by members of the Dolben family, including probably John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York.
TaJ 119
Extracts, headed ‘considerations prparatory to death’ and ascribed to ‘Dr Taylor’, on two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A composite volume of ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands.
Among papers of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury.
TaJ 120
Extracts from Opuscula.
In: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
TaJ 121
Extracts from works by Taylor, including The Great Exemplar, on leaves including ff. 4v, 123v, 155v, 282v.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r. c.1653-60.
Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.
TaJ 122
Extracts or copies of works attributed to Taylor, including ‘An excellent Prayer by Dr Taylor’ (beginning ‘O holy, and eternall Jesus! whoe hast ouercome Death...’; ‘The Eight Beatitudes’; ‘Of Prayer’; and ‘A Prayer’ (beginning ‘O holy and eternal Jesu! who didst for our sakes fast 40 daies..’., subscribed ‘Mr doctr Taylor’.
In: the MS described under TaJ 10. c.1658-61.
British Library, Add. MS 74272, ff. 98r, 102r-6r, 173r-200r, 208r-v.
TaJ 123
Extracts from prayers.
In: A duodecimo notebook apparently ‘found in the D[uke] of Monmouths pocket when he was taken [after the Battle of Sedgemoor] and is most of his owne hand writing’. c.1683-5.
TaJ 124
Extracts, headed ‘Taylor of Originall Sinne’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from theological and historical works, largely in a single minute hand, 116 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1673.
Inscribed (f. 10v) ‘Gaue these Book to Mr Norman to Couer’.
TaJ 125
Copies of, and extracts from, various prayers by Jeremy Taylor.
In: A collection of prayers, in black and red ink, on interleaves inserted throughout an exemplum of the Psalter from the Book of Common Prayer (1633), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). Apparently compiled by Anthony Sparrow (c.1611-85), Bishop of Exeter and Norwich. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 132v) ‘Thomas Priest His Book, 1709’ and, on a flyleaf, ‘W. D. T. Overbery To the Rev. le Brydges.’ Ex libris Guy Fielden, 10/10/06. Bookplate of Canon George Becker Blomfield, of Hollington Hall, Chester. Acquired from G. David, 1913.
TaJ 126
Extracts, including entries on pp. 19-20, 323-4, 469, and 493.
In: A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.
A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one ‘Raworth’.
TaJ 127
Extract, concerning Plato and Aristippus, subscribed ‘d Dr Taylor B - Down & Coner’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly several rounded hands, written from both ends, 112 leaves, in contemporary calf. Early 18th century.
Acquired from Robinson, 1932. Formerly fC7346M3 [17-- ] Bound.
TaJ 128
Copy in: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), begun in 1690 and resumed in 1698, dedicated to her son William's wife Judith, 369 leaves erratically foliated and paginated, in contemporary calf. c.1690-1700s.
Hertfordshire Record Office, DE/P F43, pp. 12, 26, 35, 49, 77.
TaJ 129
Extracts.
In: A small quarto book of ‘Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657’, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves). A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents. 1657.
Inscriptions in the MS including ‘Crescentius Matherus 1680’, ‘Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682’, ‘Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683’, ‘By Mr Oakes’, ‘Elijah Warings Book 1734’, ‘Jne Daniell 1832’, and ‘Thos Alexander -- 1847’.
TaJ 130
Extracts, headed respectively ‘In Dr Taylors life of Christ’ and ‘Dr Taylor in his life of Jesus says yt in his Passion...’.
In: the MS described under TaJ 13. Early 18th century.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 28, pp. 174-5.
TaJ 131
Numerous extracts, under a series of subject headings (‘Voluptuousness’, ‘Adultery’, ‘Death’, etc.).
In: An octavo commonplace book of prose extracts, many under subject headings, written from both ends on rectos only, in contemporary calf. Inscribed, evidently by the compiler, ‘Henry Harpur An: Do: 1674’. c.1675.
TaJ 132
A series of notes on sermons by Jeremy Taylor, chiefly in the hand of Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), Principal Secretary of State for Ireland, on c.13 unbound folio pages. Including three sermons on Matthew 10.16 (‘Christian Simplicity’) and, in an unidentified hand, a sermon on 1 Samuel 15. 22-23, at the opening of the parliament of Ireland, 8 May 1661, endorsed ‘Dr. Jeremy Taylor (Bishop of Down & Connor) his Arguinges against Comprehension & Toleration’. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 23 June 1966, lot 551. Hofmann and Freeman's sale catalogue, March 1967.