For Becket’s sake Kent always shall have tails.--Andrew Marvel. John Bale, bishop of Ossory, in the reign of Edward VI., tells us that John Capgrave and Alexander of Esseby have stated it as a fact that certain Dorsetshire men cast fishes’ tails at St. Augustine, in consequence of which “the men of this county have borne tails ever since.” We all know the tradition that Cornish men are born with tails. =Taillefer=, a valiant warrior and minstrel in the army of William the Conqueror. At the battle of Hastings (or _Senlac_) he stimulated the ardor of the Normans by songs in praise of Charlemagne and Roland. The soldier-minstrel was at last borne down by numbers, and fell fighting. He was a juggler or minstrel, who could sing songs and play tricks.... So he rode forth singing as he went, and as some say, throwing his sword up in the air and catching it again.--E. A. Freeman, _Old English History_, 332. =Tailors of Tooley Street= (_The Three_). Canning tells us of three tailors of Tooley Street, Southwark, who addressed a petition of grievances to the House of Commons, beginning with these words, “We, the people of England.” The “deputies of Vaugirard” presented themselves before Charles VIII. of France. When the king asked how many there were, the usher replied, “Only one, an please your majesty.” =Taj=, in Agra (East India), the mausoleum built by Shah Jehan to his favorite sultana, Moomtaz-i-Mahul, who died in childbirth of her eighth child. It is of white marble, and is so beautiful that it is called “A Poem in Marble,” and “The Marble Queen of Sorrow.” =Talbert= [_Tŏl´.but_], John Talbert or rather Talbot. “The English Achillês,” first earl of Shrewsbury (1373-1453). Our Talbert, to the French so terrible in war, That with his very name their babes they used to scare. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xviii. (1613). =Tallbot= (_John_), a name of terror in France. Same as above. They in France, to feare their young children, crye, “The Talbot commeth!”--Hall, _Chronicles_ (1545). Is this the Talbot, so much feared abroad, That with his name the mothers still their babes? Shakespeare, _1 Henry VI._ act. ii. sc. 3 (1589). _Talbot_ (_Colonel_), an English officer, and one of Waverley’s friends.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).