Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Taylor, Silas

by Joseph Foster

Taylor, Silas (alias Domville), s. Silvanus, a committeeman for Herefordshire; born at Harley, near Much Wenlock, Salop, 16 July, 1624, a commoner of New Inn Hall 1641, became a captain in the parliament forces and a sequestrator for Herefordshire, commissary at Dunkirk 1660, and keeper of the king's store houses, etc., at Harwich, until his death 4 Nov., 1678; buried in the chancel, author of "History of Harwich"; brother of the next-named. See Ath. i. p. xxxv, and iii. 1175.