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 himself as ‘high priest.’ Muggleton says he circumcised himself. On 20 Dec. he claimed to be Earl of Essex and heir to the throne. He read the English versions of Jacob Boehme, and in 1651 began to publish pantheistic tracts, showing illiteracy and mania, but with some flashes of beauty. These introduced him to John Pordage [q. v.], who had him at his house for a week or a fortnight at a time. He was imprisoned in Newgate in 1651 for blasphemy, but was soon released. On 4 Feb. 1652 John Reeve (1608–1658) [q. v.] visited him, with Muggleton and another, and bade him abandon his pretensions. On the retirement of Robins (April 1652) Tany stepped into his place. Removing to Eltham, he made tents for his expedition, ‘with the figure of every tribe upon the tent.’ Reeve then wrote him ‘a sentence of eternal damnation.’ On 8 June 1654 he claimed the crown of France. In the last week of 1654 he made a great bonfire in Lambeth, and threw into it his tent, saddle, pistols, a sword, and a bible, on which ‘the people were ready to stone him.’ On Saturday, 30 Dec., he made his appearance at the parliament house, ‘armed with a long rusty sword,’ asked Cooper the doorkeeper ‘whether he might deliver a petition,’ and was told it could be done through a member. An hour later he came with another armed man, ran at Cooper with his sword, and ‘hurt divers’ till Major Ennis overpowered him. He was taken for a quaker, and sent to the gatehouse. On 10 Feb. 1655 he was liberated on bail, in company with John Biddle [q. v.], and finally discharged on 28 May. Muggleton says that ‘after a while’ he sailed in a small boat to Holland, ‘to call the Jews there,’ and that ‘he and one Captain James were cast away and drowned.’ It seems probable that he was the ‘prophet’ who, being on a similar errand, visited Anthoinette Bourignon at Amsterdam in 1668, ‘and so, entering into a little bark, it is not known what became of him.’

In addition to broadsheet proclamations (25 April 1650, 8 May 1654, 8 June 1654), Tany published: 1. ‘The Nation's Right in Magna Charta discussed with the Thing called Parliament’ [1651], 4to, dated 1 Jan. 1651. 2. ‘Theavrav John his Aurora,’ 1651, 4to (introductory epistle by Robert Norwood; see ). 3. ‘Theavravjohn his Theous-Ori Apokolipikal,’ 1651, 4to (contains a reply to Basset Jones [q. v.]); second part, 1650 [i.e. 1652], 4to. 4. ‘Theaurauiohn High Priest to the Jewes, his Disputive Challenge to the Universities’ [1655], 8vo.

[Tany's Works; A List of some of the Grand Blasphemers, 1654; Weekly Intelligencer, No. 74, 2–9 Jan. 1654, p. 151; Perfect Account of the Daily Intelligence, No. 209, 3–10 Jan. 1654, p. 1665; Mercurius Fumigosus, ut supra, and No. 70, 19 Sept.–3 Oct. 1655, p. 550; Fowler's Dæmonium Meridianum, 1655, i. 53, 60; Ross's Pansebeia, 1658, pp. 377 sq.; Whitelocke's Memoirs, 1682, p. 592; Parliamentary History, xx. 402; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss) iii. 599 (calls Tany ‘a blasphemous Jew’); Muggleton's Acts of the Witnesses, 1699, pp. 20 sq., 43 sq.; Apology for M. Antonia Bourignon, 1699, p. 299.] 

TANYMARIAN (1822-1885), Welsh musician. [See .]

TAPP, JOHN (fl. 1596–1615), writer on navigation, combined the editing and writing of books with the selling of them. The earliest work which bears his name is ‘The Arte of Navigation,’ translated from the Spanish by Richard Eden [q. v.] in 1561, and now ‘corrected and augmented with a Regiment or Table of Declination and divers other necessary tables and rules of common navigation … by J. T.,’ 4to, 1596. The preface is signed in full ‘John Tap,’ and the work has the imprint of ‘Edw. Allde,’ ‘to be sold by Hugh Astley, dwelling at Saint Magnus Corner.’ In 1602 he brought out ‘The Seaman's Kalender, or an Ephemerides of the Sun, Moone, and certaine of the most notable fixed Starres. … The Tables being for the most part calculated from the yeere 1601 to the yeare 1624 by I. T.;’ and this, printed also by E. Allde, for John Tapp, ‘was to be sold at his shop on Tower Hill, neere the Bulwark Gate.’ A third book is a ‘Treatise on Arithmatic,’ which is represented in the British Museum by a second and posthumous edition, brought out in 1658 by P. Ray, gent., under the title of ‘Tap's Arithmetick, or the Path-way to the Knowledge of the Ground of Arts,’ and dedicated to Maurice Thomson, governor of the East India Company, as the former edition had been to Sir Thomas Smith (Smythe) [q. v.] ‘The Arte of Navigation’ went into a third edition in 1615, when the author was still alive and had succeeded Astley in the shop at Saint Magnus Corner.

[His own works as cited; ] 

TARA,. [See, 1585-1653?]

TARBAT,. [See, 1630-1714.]

TARLETON, BANASTRE (1754–1833), general, third son of John Tarleton (1719–1773), merchant, of Liverpool, and mayor of that city in 1764, and of his wife Jane (d. 1797), eldest daughter of Banastre Parker of Cuerden, Lancashire, was