• Reference
    BorBL4
  • Title
    Papers of Richard Taylor of Clapham
  • Date free text
    c1618 - 1628
  • Production date
    From: 1618 To: 1628
  • Admin/biog history
    According to G.D. Gilmore in BHRS Vol XXV p 104-9, Richard Taylor was born c1579. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1600. On 12 August 1613 he married Elizabeth daughter of William and Ursula Boteler of Biddenham. He was one of the Borough members in the parliaments of 1620, 1623, 1625 and 1628 during the whole of which time he was Deputy Recorder for Bedford. He received a grant of arms in 1624 and bought the manor of Clapham in 1627. He had 10 children - three daughters and seven sons. He died in 1641.
  • Archival history
    It is not known how the papers come to be in the Borough archive.
  • Level of description
    series