Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667), was chaplain to Laud and Charles I, and was appointed rector of Uppingham in 1638. He was taken prisoner in the Royalist defeat before Cardigan Castle in 1645, and retired to Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, where he wrote most of his greater works. After the Restoration, he was made bishop of Down and Connor and, subsequently, of Dromore. He died at Lisburn and was buried in his cathedral of Dromore. His fame rests on the combined simplicity and splendour of his style, of which his “Holy Living” and “Holy Dying” (1650-1651) are, perhaps, the best examples. Among his other works, the “Liberty of Prophesying,” an argument for toleration, appeared in 1646; his “Eniautos” or series of sermons for the Christian year, in 1653; “The Golden Grove,” a manual of daily prayers, in 1655.
From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature, John Mulgan, editor (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1939), pp. 511-512.
