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Who was John Taylor the Diplomatist?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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According to the Dictionary of National Biography, John Taylor, that “factious papist” and diplomatist, was born about 1600, and was the eldest son of John Taylor of Kingsnorth, Kent, by Anne daughter of William Austen of Goudhurst. It is true that Berry's Kentish Genealogies, pp. 162-3, to which DNB refers, gives John Taylor and Anne Austen a son John, but it gives the younger John's wife's name as Elizabeth whereas DNB calls her Jane, as indeed she calls herself (Cal. S. P. Dom., 1649-50, p. 208). Also, Berry mentions no brothers, while DNB states that he had a brother who was chaplain to the same Emperor to whom he was accredited as agent.
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(1) In both Clay's, J. W. edition of Dugdale's Visitation and that printed by the Surtees Society, the Taylor pedigree was taken from a slightly inaccurate copy in so far as Dulcibell and Elizabeth Taylor are shown as aunts instead of sisters of the Envoy (Coll. of Arms mss. : Visitation Papers).Google Scholar
(2) John Taylor, Dugdale's (to distinguish him from Berry's) may have had as it were a readymade connection, apart from the possibility of a “ friend ” as suggested, with the Inner Temple ; for Dr. Stephen Taylor married Olive, daughter of William Wombwell, Co. York, who was admitted to the Inner Temple on 16 June 1587.Google Scholar
(3) Cal. of Dom, S.P..1639-40, p. 208 to which he refers, mentions that the Envoy's appeal was sealed. Google Scholar