Here is the tomb to Sir John Taylor, Bt., and Simon Taylor, to the north of the main road running through the property. It is in good condition. The latter held many important posts and was a very wealthy planter, leaving behind him, it is said, the largest fortune ever accumulated by a West Indian. Both Sir John and his brother Simon were originally buried at Vale Royal, in St. Andrew; but on the sale of that property their bodies were removed to Lyssons. The following are the inscriptions: [_On the South side_] Here lie the Remains of—Sir John Taylor, of Lissons, Baronet,—Amiable in His Manners, Steady in His Attachments—& Exemplary in the Practice of the Social & Domestic Duties.—He died—during a visit to His Estates in this Island,—May 6th, 1786,—Aged 41. [_On the North side_] Here lie the Remains of—the Honourable Simon Taylor,—A Loyal Subject, A firm Friend, & an Honest man.—Who, after an active life,—During which he faithfully & ably filled the highest Offices—of Civil & Military Duty in this Island,—Died April 14th, 1813,—aged 73. [_On the East side_] To the Memory of—A beloved & Honoured—Father and Uncle. This Monument was erected—By Sir Simon Richard Brissett Taylor,—Baronet,—1814. [_On the West side_] _Arms_, Two escutcheons. 1. Argent, a saltire sable, between two human hearts, in pale gules, & 2 cinquefoils in fesse, vert. Baronet’s badge in the fesse point. _Crest_, Out of a ducal coronet, a cubit arm holding a cross crosslet. 2. The same arms with supporters—Two leopards chained & collared. _Motto_, “In hoc signo Vinces.” All that is left of =Hordley= are the remains of the works and overseer’s house. Of the great house, two miles away at an elevation of 700 feet, there is now nothing left. While on his second visit to Jamaica, in 1818, Monk Lewis paid a flying visit to this estate. Here (he said) I expected to find a perfect paradise, and I found a perfect hell. Report had assured me that Hordley was the best managed estate in the island; and, as far as the soil was concerned, report appeared to have said true: but my trustee had also assured me that my negroes were the most contented and best-disposed, and here there was a lamentable incorrectness in the account. I found them in a perfect uproar; complaints of all kinds stunned me from all quarters: all the blacks accused all the whites, and all the whites accused all the blacks; and, as far as I could make out, both parties were extremely in the right. In the week at his disposal he was not able to effect much remedy. He found his “trustee” not cruel, but merely indolent as to the fate of the negroes; but he dismissed one of the book-keepers and the “chief black governor.” He gave the negroes new holdings, additional allowances of salt fish and presents of money, &c., and “left them in as good humour, apparently, as I found them in bad.” [Illustration: ALBION ESTATE ]