John Taylor (Q385371)

John was described by Dunton as an honest, industrious and obliging man with ‘moderate principles’. In 1703 he instituted an annual sermon at the Baptist church in Lincoln’s Inn Fields to commemorate his escape from death in the great storm of that year. Taylor had previously traded successfully under The Sign of the Globe at the west end of St.Paul’s Churchyard, and for a time he worked in partnership with his son William, who had served his apprenticeship with him. The last book of his to bear the Globe imprint was The Female Advocate, A Poem written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex (1686). By a coincidence, the last of his books bearing the Ship imprint was The Husbandman’s Disputation (1706).