In 1503, Taylor was ordained Rector at
Bishop's Hatfield, and then became Rector of
Sutton Coldfield in 1504. He served as one of the Royal Chaplains at
Henry VII's funeral, 21 April 1509, and was afterwards appointed by
King Henry VIII as the King's Clerk and Chaplain—he was later one of the commissioners to decide if Henry VIII's marriage to
Catherine of Aragon was valid. In 1511, he was made
Clerk of the Parliament. Taylor was appointed as
Archdeacon of Derby in 1515, then as Royal Ambassador to Burgundy and France and Prolocutor of Convocation. In 1516, he was appointed
Archdeacon of Buckingham, and was conferred the degrees of Doctor of Civil Law and Doctor of Canon Law at Cambridge in 1520. He was one of ten chaplains present at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. In 1528 he became Archdeacon of
Halifax. From 1527 to 1534 he was
Master of the Rolls of the
Court of Chancery. This position was the third most senior judicial position in England (after
Lord Chancellor and
Lord Chief Justice). ==Death and burial==