Subseries Taylor - John Taylor (1538)

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SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor

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GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Taylor

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John Taylor (1538)

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  • 1538-1547 (Creation)

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3 files, 29 items. Paper and parchment

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(1503-1554)

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Taylor served as bursar then proctor of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1523 to 1537, and master of St John's College, Cambridge from 1538 to 1546. He was rector of St Peter upon Cornhill, London, of Tatenhill, Staffordshire, Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, a Reformer and Commissioner for the first Prayer Book.
His government of SJC was not felicitous and he was involved in continual disputes with the fellows. These occasioned a visitation by the bishop of Ely in May 1543, and subsequently the formation of a new code of statutes for the government of the College. In 1546, Taylor resigned his mastership of the College.
He died at the home of his friend in Buckinghamshire in 1554.

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Papers relating to the Mastership of John Taylor, the College's fifth master.

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  • See Howard, Henry Fraser. An Account of the Finances of The College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge 1511-1926. (Cambridge, 1935). p. 30 for a perspective of Taylor's mastership.

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