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 of learning to be erected thereon, departed without a degree to the Middle Temple." He there became "a person of great learning in the antiquity of the law and eminent for his knowledge of the Saxon language." He was admitted from Staple Inn, called to the Bar in 1587, and in 1608 was Lent Reader at the Inn. He sat in the Parliaments of James I. and Elizabeth, and was one of the Justices Itinerant for Wales. He died in 1616.

He wrote a number of Antiquarian Essays, which will be found in Gutch's Collectanea Curiosa and Hearne's Discourses, and of which the following are the titles: Of Knights made Abbots; Questions about the Ancient Britons; Antiquity of Arms in England; Antiquity, Variety and Ceremonies of Funerals in England, anno 1660; Antiquity of Parliaments in England; Antiquity, Authority and Succession of the High Steward of England; Camera Stellata, or An Explanation of the Court of the Star Chamber; Antiquity of the Word Sterlingorum or Sterling.

Admitted 6 May, 1625.

Son and heir of Sir William Tate of Delapre, Northampton, and of the Middle Temple, and nephew of (q.v.). He was educated at Oxford, where he matriculated in 1621. He was returned for Northampton to the Long Parliament in 1640, where he took an active part on the Parliamentarian side, and moved the Self-denying Ordinance in 1644.

Admitted 31 January, 1829.

He appears on the Register as "William Tayler of Connaught Square, Edgeware Road," his parentage not being given, but he was the son of Archdale Wilson Tayler of Elstree, and brother of Frederick Tayler, the landscape painter. Soon after his admission to the Temple he was given a Writership in the East India Company's service, when he proceeded to India and in 1855 became Commissioner at Patna. For his conduct there, however, during the Indian Mutiny, which was regarded as wanting in spirit and firmness, he was transferred to a less responsible post, and, resenting this and publishing a virulent attack on the Lieutenant-Governour, was suspended from his duties 26 Jan. 1859. He was called to the Bar 26 Jan. 1863, and shortly after took chambers in Lincoln's Inn. He died 8 March, 1892.

He published A Brief Narrative of Events Connected with his Removal (1857); also Our Crisis, or Three Months in Patna during the Insurrection (1858); Thirty-eight Years in India (1878 and 1881), and some pamphlets relating to his own case.

Admitted 8 April, 1815.

Son of John M'Kinley Taylor of Bagot Street, Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1814. Whilst a student at the Temple he edited a paper, in conjunction with Thomas Crofton Croker, named The Talisman. After his call to the Bar 22 Nov. 1822, he wrote for the Morning Chronicle and Herald, advocating Anti-Slavery principles. He was engaged on the Roscommon Peerage Case, and on the defence of Oxford for shooting at the Queen. He died 10 Dec. 1841, and was buried in Kensal Green, where a monument is erected to his memory.

Besides his contributions to the Press, he published a pamphlet advocating the abolition of capital punishment (1830), and a Comparative View of Punishments in England and the United States (1831).