Note 285 — Chapter LVI · THE THREE IRISH CHURCHES

Patrick Adair is very hard on Taylor, showing little reverence for his learning and eloquence; as for his theology, ‘he had sucked in the dregs of much of Popery, Socinianism and Arminianism,’ True Narrative, p. 245. Later lights on Taylor’s Irish experience are in Mr. Gosse’s biography, 1903. Writing to Conway on July 4, 1665, Rawdon says: ‘His lordship is so close at his study replying to the answers to his book against Popery, that he is hardly got out of his closet,’ Cal. of State Papers, Ireland.