TAVIUM
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TAYLOR
with lands in Devon, Dorset, and Cornwall, and hci-ame one of the riohest monasteries in the west, of England. The church, dedicated to Our Lady and St. Kumon (one of the earlj- Irish saints in Cornwall), was burned by the Danes in 997, but magnificently rebuilt under Livingus, the second abbot. He and his suc- cessor Aldred both became bishops of Worcester, and the latter is said to have crowned William the Con- queror. The thii-ty-sixth abbot, John Dynynton, was granted leave in 14.58 to use the mitre and other ponlificaUa; and the thirty-ninth, Richard Banham, was made a lord of Parliament by Henry VlII in 1.513. Twenty-five years later the last abbot, John Peryn, with twenty monks, surrendered the monas- tery to the king, receiving a pension of a hundred pounds. The abbey revenues at the dissolution were estimated at £902. The monastic buildings, with the borough of Tavistock, were granted to John Lord Russell, whose descendant, the Duke of Bedford, still owns them. Nothing is left of the monastery e-xcept the refectory, two gateways, and a porch; the splendid abbey church has entirely disappeared.
DlGDALE. Monast. Anglic. II (London. 1817). 489-503; Willis, Hist, of the Milred Parliamenlari/ Abbies (London, 1718), 170- 176; Tanner, Notitia Monastica (Cambridge, 1787), Devonshire, xtiv; Brat. The Borders of the Tamar and the Tory. I (London, 1879). I. 356^40, II. 8, 416, 423: OuvER, Historic Collections re- lating to the Monasteries in Devon (Exeter, 1820); Gasquet, Henry VI Hand the English Monasteries, I (London, 1888), 29, 295.
p. O. Huntbr-Blair.
Tavium, a titular see in Galatia Prima, suffragan
of Aneyra. Tavium, or Ta\-ia, was the chief city
of the Galatian tribe of Trocmi, and owing to its
position on the high roads of commerce was an im-
portant trading post. There are still extant some of
the coins of Marcus Aurelius and Elagabalus. In
the temple at Tavium there was a colossal statue of
Jupiter in bronze, greatly venerated by the Galatians.
There was some doubt about the exact site of the
city, but it is to-day generally believed to be the
ruins situated clo.se to the village of Nefez Keui,
inhabited during the winter by nom.adic Turkish
tribes, Ij'ing in a very fertile plain east of Halys in the
caza of Songourlou and the vilayet of Angora. These
ruins were partly used in buikling the neighbouring
village of Yuzgad. We find there the remains of a
theatre and possibly of a temple of Jupiter; these
have a number of inscriptions, mostly Byzantine.
In the " Notitia" Episcopatuum" this see is mentioned
up to the thirteenth century as the first suffragan of
Aneyra. We have the names of five bishops:
Dicasius, present at the Councils of Neocaesarea
and Nice; Julian, at the Robber .Synod of Ephesus
(449), and at the Council of Chalcedon (4.51), and a
signer of the letter from the Galatian bishops to
the Emperor Leo (4.58); Anastasius, present at the
Council of Constantinople (553); Gregory at the
Council in Trullo (692); Philaretua at Constantino-
ple (869).
Le Qciex, Oriens Christ.. I, 473: Smith, Did. Greek and Ro- man Geog.. s. v.: Texier, Asie mincure, 497; Perrot. Exploration archiol. dc la Galalie el dc la Bithi/nic (Paris,1872). 288-93; Ramsay, Asia Minor, 243; MiJLLER, notes to Ptolemy, ed. Didot. I, 853.
S. P^TRioiia.
Taza Innocentiana, a Detsree issued by Innocent
XI, 1 Oct., 167.S, regul.ating the fees that m.ay be
demanded or accepted by episcopal (;hancery offices
for various acts, instruments, or writings. Accord-
ing to this Decree bishops or their officials are not
allowed to accept anything though freely offered
(1) for ordin;itions or;inything connected therewith,
such as dimi.ssorial letters, etc.; (2) for in.stitution
to benefices; (3) for m.atrimonial dispen.sations. In
this last ca.se, however, alms to be applied to pious uses
mjiy be demanded. A moderate eh:irge, fixed by
Innocent, may be exacted by the chancellor for ex-
pediting necessary documents, excei)t those granting
permission to say Mass, administer tlic sacraments,
preach, etc. The Taxa Innocentiana is silent in re-
gard to contentious matters, e. g. the charge for
copies of the acts of ec(;lesiastical trials. Some
maintained that Innocent's legislation was pro-
mulgated for Italy only, but it evidenced the mind
of the Church, and at least in substance was of uni-
versal application. The Sacred Congregation of the
Council on 10 June, 1896, modified the prescriptions
of Innocent, decreeing that while taxes or fees may
be imposed according to justice and prudence in
matters pertaining to benefices and sacraments, es-
pecially matrimony, yet the sacraments themselves
must be conferred without charge and pious customs
connected therewith observed In other matters not
directly affecting the administration of the sacra-
ments, e. g. dispensations from the banns, it is de-
creed that: (1) laudable customs must be observed
and allowances made for various circumstances of
time, place, and persons; (2) the poor are not to be
taxed: (3) in any case the amount demanded must
be moderate, so that persons may not be deterred
thereby from receiving the sacraments; (4) as regards
matrimony the exaction is to be remitted, if otherwise
there would be danger of concubinage; (5) in regard
to benefices the tax must be in proportion to the
fruits or income of the benefice in question; (6) all
such fees are to be determined not by individual
bishops but in provincial council, or at least in a special
meeting of the ordinaries of the province for this
purpose. The approval of the Holy See is required
for the fees determined upon. Rome's sanction is
given tentatively for five years to Italy, for ten years
to other countries.
Ferraris, a. v. Taza; Lucidi, De risilat. ss. liminum, doc. XX,
III. m- Andrew B. Meehan.
Taxster (Tayster), John de, sometimes erroneously called Taxter or Taxston, was a thirteenth-century chronicler, of whose life nothing is known except that he was professed as a Benedictine at Bury St. Edmund's 20 Nov., 1244. It is probable that he died in or about 1265, when his chronicle ceases. His work, which in the earlier part is compiled from Florence of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, and Ralph de Diceto, begins with the creation of the world. The value of the chronicle arises from Taxster's account of his own times; and his description of contemporary events was subsequently used by Everisden, Oxenedes, and Bartholomew Cotton. This part of his work has accordingly attracted more attention, and his chronicle for the period 1258–1263 has been printed by Luard in his edition of Cotton (Rolls Series). Taxster's chronicle as a whole has never been printed, and exists only in two MSS., one in the British Museum (Cott., Julius, A. 1.), the other in the College of Arms (Arundelian MS., 6). A faulty MS. for the years 1173–1265 was printed in 1849 for the English Historical Society, and passages relating to German affairs have been included by Pertz in "Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script.", XXVIII.
Liebermann in Pertz, Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script., XXVIII Luard, in R. S., loc. cit. (London, 1859); Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue, III (London, 1871); Tout in Dict. Nat. Biog., s. v.
Taylor, Frances M.4.rgaret (Mother M.
Macdalen Taylor), Superior General, and foundress
of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, b. 20
Jan., 1832; d. in London, 9 June, 1900. Her father
was a Protestant clergyman, the vicar of a Lincoln-
shire parish where her early years were spent in works
of charity among the poor. She was a very clever
woman, full of energy, with a wide sympathetic
nature and a reniark;il)ly retentive memory. In
18.54 her patriotism moved li(T to join Mi.ss Night-
ing:ilis st;tff of nurses,;ind to go with them to the
CriiiHMii War. This threw her into conta<-t with
Catholic priests, Sisters of Mercy, and soldiers, and
