Though I deserve not, I desire
The laurell wreath, the poet's hire.
This picture is now almost worne out.
Obiit ... (about 25 years since): sepult. in the church-yard of St. Martin's-in-the-fields.
[1061]John Taylor, water poet, quaere his obiit. Quaere his brother the paynter at Oxon. A<nthony> W<ood> respondet that he haz notes from the paynter who is dead.
Silas Taylor (1624-1678).
[1062]Mr. Baker, the printseller, by the Royal Exchange, hath a MS., a thin folio, viz. the description of Harwich and all its appurtenances and antiquities by capt. Silas Tayler.
[1063]Captain Silas Tayler: vide A. Wood's Hist. et Antiq. Oxon. He was a captaine in the Parliament army, under col. <Edward> Massey. He was a sequestrator, in Herefordshire, and had, in those times, great power, which power he used civilly and obligeingly, that he was beloved by all the King's party.
He was very musicall, and hath composed many things, and I have heard anthemes of his sang before his majestie, in his chapell, and the king told him he liked them. He had a very fine chamber organ in those unmusicall dayes. There was a great friendship between Matthew Lock, since organist of the Queen's chapell, and him[LXXXIX.].