Editing Jeremy Taylor (section)

== Royalist prisoner ==
[[File:Jeremy Taylor with figures representing youth, maturity and old age by Pierre Lombart.jpg|thumb|Jeremy Taylor with figures representing youth, maturity and old age by [[Pierre Lombart]] (1650)]]
During the next fifteen years, Taylor's movements are not easily traced. He seems to have been in London during the last weeks of Charles I in 1649, from whom he is said to have received his watch and some jewels which had ornamented the ebony case in which he kept his Bible. He had been taken prisoner with other Royalists in the siege of [[Cardigan Castle]] on 4 February 1645. In 1646 he is found in partnership with two other deprived clergymen, keeping a school at Newton Hall, in the parish of [[Llanfihangel Aberbythych]], Carmarthenshire. Here he became private chaplain to and benefited from the hospitality of [[Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery]], whose mansion, [[Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire|Golden Grove]], is immortalised in the title of Taylor's still popular manual of devotion, and whose first wife was a constant friend of Taylor. At Golden Grove Taylor wrote some of his most distinguished works.<ref name=ccel/> Alice, the third Lady Carbery, was the original of the Lady in [[John Milton]]'s ''[[Comus (John Milton)|Comus]]''. Taylor's first wife had died early in 1651. His second wife was Joanna Bridges or Brydges, said to be a natural daughter of Charles I; there is no good evidence for this.<ref>Edmund Gosse, 'Jeremy Taylor', 1904.</ref> She owned a good estate, though probably impoverished by Parliamentarian exactions, at Mandinam, in Carmarthenshire. Several years following their marriage, they moved to Ireland. From time to time Taylor appears in London in the company of his friend [[John Evelyn]], in whose ''[[John Evelyn's Diary|Diary]]'' and correspondence his name repeatedly occurs. He was imprisoned three times: in 1645 for an injudicious preface to his ''Golden Grove''; again in [[Chepstow Castle]], from May to October 1655, on what charge does not appear; and a third time in the [[Tower of London|Tower]] in 1657, because of the indiscretion of his publisher, [[Richard Royston]], who had decorated his ''Collection of Offices'' with a print representing Christ in the attitude of prayer.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=470}}