Appendix E
Additional Notes
Palmers of Dorney Court - The Palmer residence Dorney Court near Burnham,
Buckinghamshire has what is claimed to be a priest-hole. In the 17th century there were
recusant Palmers at Dorney Court.
Taylors of Slade End - Slade End is an area at the south-east corner of the former
Berkshire village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell on the A4130 Wallingford to Didcot Road, just outside
Wallingford. The Taylors were one of the Catholic families in the predominantly yeoman cluster
based around Dorchester-on-Thames, but originated from Warwickshire. They seem to have been at
Slade End, presumably at Slade End Farm, at least from the 1790s until the 1820s.
The Taylors intermarried with the Davey family of Overy, the leading Catholic yeoman family in
the Dorchester area.
Scoles of Lewknor and Shirburn - The Scoles were an ancient Catholic family, originally
gentry, from Lewknor and Shirburn. They were in Oxfordshire from the reign of Henry VI onwards and
intermarried with the Daveys and Taylors.
For further information on the Taylors and Scoles see Hadland, T, "A 'Lost' Baptism -
Part II", Catholic Ancestor, Vol.5, No.2, June 1994.