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A Life of John Taylor of Ashburne, Rector of Bosworth, Prebendary of Westminister, & Friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Together With an Account of the Taylors & Websters of Ashburne, With Pedigrees and Copious Genealogical Notes

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APPENDIX
The numbers by which the articles hereunder given are
distinguished correspond with those affixed to the
several statements in the foregoing text.
1. The earlier family was also of Uttoxeter.
See the will of John Taylor (Tellyar) of Uttox-
eter, dated 14 Dec. 1581 and proved at Lichfield
7 June 1588, in which he bequeaths legacies to
“ ray cousin Roger Tellyar of Ashburne and to
his children ” also to “ Richard Tellyar my cousin
and godson, of Ashburne Ellen, daughter of
William Taylor of Uttoxeter, married Richard
Milward of Eaton Dovedale and by him had a
son, John Milward, whose daughter Audrey was
the wife of Thomas Taylor of the later family ;
another grand-daughter of the said Ellen was
Anne Morley, who married Richard Taylor of
the earlier family. See pedigree of Milward
(Genealogist, vol. ii, p. 391 New Series, and vol.
viii, p. 21.)
2. William Taylor was the son of the Roger
Taylor mentioned above. He married Eleanor,
daughter of Thomas Sheldon of Stanton, uncle
of Archbishop Sheldon, but died without issue.
At the time of William Taylor’s death Dr. Sheldon
was living in retirement at Snelston. In the
following year he became Bishop of London, and


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