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 1644. *122. ‘Iohn Taylor being yet unhanged sends greeting to Iohn Booker that hanged him lately,’ 4to, 1644; Booker answered in ‘A Rope Treble-twisted,’ 1644, but anonymously. 123. ‘Ad Populum; or, a Lecture to the People,’ 4to, 1644. *124. ‘Mad Verse, Sad Verse, Glad Verse, and Bad Verse,’ 4to [Oxford], 1644. *125. ‘The Generall Complaint of the most oppressed, distressed Commons of England’ [no date]. *126. ‘Rebells Anathematized and Anatomized … a satyricall Salutation to … Pulpit-praters’ (in verse), 4to [Oxford], 1645. *127. ‘The Cavses of the Diseases and Distempers of this Kingdom,’ 4to [Oxford], 1645. *128. ‘Oxford besiedged, surprised, taken, and pitifully entred,’ 4to, 1645. *129. ‘A most learned and eloquent Speech spoken … in the House of Commons by … Miles Corbet … revised by John Taylor,’ 4to [Oxford, 1645]. 130. ‘A Briefe Relation of the Gleanings of the Idiotismes and Absurdities of Miles Corbet. … By Antho. Roily,’ 1646, 4to. 131. ‘The Complaint of Christmas,’ 4to [Oxford, 1646]; a satire in prose. 132. ‘A Recommendation to Mercurius Morbicus’ [i.e. Henry Walker], 4to, 1647; an anonymous tract, undoubtedly by Taylor. 133. ‘The World Turn'd Upside Down,’ 4to, 1647. *134. ‘The Kings VVelcome to his owne House … Hampton Covrt’ (in verse), 4to, 1647; reprinted in C. Hindley's ‘Misc. Antiq. Angl.,’ loc. cit. *135. ‘The Noble Cavalier characterised and a Rebellious Caviller cavterised’ [no place or date]. *136. ‘Tailors Travels from London to the Isle of Wight,’ 4to [1648]; reprinted in J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps's ‘Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Illustrated,’ 4to, 1851. *137. ‘ἹΠΠ-ANΘΡΩΠΟΣ: or, An Ironicall Expostulation with Death … for the Losse of the late Lord Mayor of London’ (in verse), 4to, 1648; also printed as a broadside. 138. ‘The Wonder of a Kingdome, dedicated to Junto at Westminster,’ 4to, 1648. *139. ‘John Taylors VVandering to see the VVonders of the VVest,’ 4to, 1649; reprinted by E. W. Ashbee, 4to, 1649, and by C. Hindley in ‘Misc. Antiq. Angl.,’ loc. cit. *140. ‘The Number and Names of all the Kings of England and Scotland,’ 8vo, 1649; another edit. 1650. 141. ‘Mercurius Pacificus: with a diligent search … for peace,’ 4to [1650]; attributed to Taylor. 142. ‘A late weary merry Voyage and Journey … from London to Gravesend … to Cambridge,’ 1650. *143. ‘Taylors Arithmeticke, from one to twelve’ (in verse), 4to [undated]; other edits. 1650 and 1653. 144. ‘Alterations strange, Of various Signes, Here are compos'd, A few Poetick Lines,’ 1651. *145. ‘Ale Ale-vated into the Ale-titude,’ 8vo, 1651; and again in 1652, 1653, and 1656. In prose but at the end are inserted the lines by Thomas Randolph (1605–1635) [q. v.] called ‘The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale.’ *146. ‘Ranters of both Sexes, Male and Female,’ 4to, 1651. *147. ‘Epigrammes … being ninety in number, besides two new made Satyres,’ 8vo, 1651. 148. ‘Newes from Tenebris; or preter-pluperfect nocturnall or night Worke,’ 1652. *149. ‘Christmas In and Ovt,’ 8vo, 1652. 150. ‘Misselanies; or fifty years gatherings out of sundry Authors,’ 1652, 8vo. 151. ‘The Impartiallest Satyre that ever was seen’ [anon.], 1652, 4to; another edit. 1653, 8vo. 152. ‘The Names of all the Dukes, Marquesses, &c., in England, Scotland, and Ireland,’ 1653. 153. ‘Nonsence upon Sence, or Sence upon Nonsence’ [no place or date]. 154. ‘A dreadful Battle between a Taylor and a Louse,’ 2 pts. s. sh. fol. [1653?]; a black-letter ballad signed ‘J. Taylor.’ *155. ‘The Essence … of Nonsence upon Sence,’ &c. (in verse), 8vo, 1653. *156. ‘A Short Relation of a Long Iourney made round or ovall by encompassing the Principalitie of Wales’ [1652, usually assigned to 1653]; privately reprinted by J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, 4to, 1852; also by C. Hindley in ‘Misc. Antiq. Angl.,’ loc. cit. *157. ‘The Certain Travailes of an uncertain Journey’ (in verse and prose), 8vo, 1653; reprinted in C. Hindley's ‘Misc. Antiq. Angl.,’ loc. cit.

Taylor may possibly be identical with the author of the preface to Gerard Winstanley's ‘True Levellers' Standard advanced,’ 4to, 1649.

He is also said to have written verses accompanying ‘Two Pictures of Lent and Shrovetide,’ 1636; ‘Wee be seauen,’ 1637; ‘An Elegie upon the Death of Beniamin Johnson’ [sic], 1637; ‘Newes from the great Mogull,’ 1638; ‘Most fearefull Signes and Sightes seene in the Ayre in Germany,’ 1638; ‘The Contention between French Hood, Felt Hatt,’ 1638; ‘A most horrible … Satyre,’ 1639; ‘The Deluding World,’ 1639; ‘A Dialogue … [on] the Downe fall of Monopolies,’ 1639; ‘A Discourse betweene the Beggar, the theife, and the Hangman,’ 1639; ‘A Dialogue between Life and Death,’ 1639; ‘Certain Verses vpon the warlike Fight of the Spaniards and Dutchmen,’ 1639; ‘Certain verses vpon the Fast,’ 1640; but of these pieces no copies are apparently extant.

Manuscript verses by him ‘On Copt Hall’ and ‘To Sir John Fearne’ are in the possession of Earl De la Warr (Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. p. 302); but he is erroneously de-