Jeremy Taylor

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jeremy Taylor
(1613 – 13 August 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who
achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.
He is sometimes known as the „Shakespeare of Divines“ for his poetic
style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing.
He is remembered in the Church of England’s calendar of saints with a
Lesser Festival on 13 August. Taylor was educated at the Perse School,
Cambridge before going on to Gonville and Caius College, at Cambridge,
where he graduated in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud,
Archbishop of Canterbury. He went on to become chaplain in ordinary to
King Charles I as a result of Laud’s sponsorship. This made him
politically suspect when Laud was tried for treason and executed in 1645
by the Puritan Parliament during the English Civil War. After the
Parliamentary victory over the King, he was briefly imprisoned several
times