On flat stones within the communion-rails of that (Welland) church are the following inscriptions:—
"Edmund Taylor, Esq., died 10 Jan., 1721, aged 55.
"'Hic jacet Radulphus Taylor vir nullo non doctrinæ genere instructissimus uxorem duxit Penelopen filiam natu secundam Nicholai Lechmere de Hanleycastle, armigeri, quarto die Junii, obiit, A.D. 1676, æt. 39;' and several of their children are here buried.
"Penelope Taylor, died 29 May, 1710, aged 62."
Arms on the stone.
I know of no family of the name resident in that city; but, having left it many years, I am almost a stranger to its inhabitants. But I recollect a gentleman of that name resident at Strensham, the birth-place of the poet Butler (Hudibras), and who, to his honour, in 1843, erected a monument to the memory of that celebrated man, in the church of his native village. His name was John Taylor, Esq.
J. B. WHITBORNE.
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Portrait of Mesmer (Vol. v., p. 418.).
—Your correspondent SIGMA may be informed that there is an engraved portrait of Mesmer in tom. xiii. p. 261. of the Biographie Nouvelle des Contemporains, Paris, 1824.