Hugh Taylor

Hugh Taylor (died 25 November 1585) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Life Born at Durham, Taylor arrived at Reims on 2 May 1582 and was ordained a priest. He was sent on the English mission on 27 March 1585. He was the first to be executed under the Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, recently passed, which made it treason to be made a priest and then to come into the realm. Taylor was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York on 25 November 1585. Marmaduke Bowes Marmaduke Bowes, a married gentleman yeoman. Bowes is described by Richard Challoner as of Angram Grange near Appleton in Cleveland, but is not mentioned in the will of Christopher Bowes of Angram Grange, proved on 30 September 1568, nor in the 1612 pedigree.