- brated 29 Oct. 1657 in honour of the truly deserving Rich. Chiverton, Lord Mayor of London, at the cost … of the Skinners,’ London, 1657, 4to (Brit. Mus.).
- ‘London's Tryumph, presented by Industry and Honour: in honour of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Ireton, knight, Lord Mayor, 29 Oct. 1658, at the cost … of the Clothworkers,’ 1658, 4to (Brit. Mus.; Guildhall; Huth).
- ‘London's Triumph, celebrated 29 Oct. 1659 in honour of the much-honoured Thomas Allen, Lord Mayor, at the cost of the Grocers,’ London, 1659, 4to (Brit. Mus.).
- ‘London's Glory, represented by Time, Truth, and Fame at the magnificent Triumph and Entertainment of his most sacred majesty Charles II, the duke of Gloucester … at the Guildhall, on Thursday, 5 July 1660, and in the 12th year of his majesty's most happy reign’ (Brit. Mus., three; Huth; reprinted from copy in the Advocates' Library in ‘Dramatists of the Restoration,’ 1878).
- ‘The Royal Oake, with other various and delightfull Scenes presented on the Water and the Land … in honour of Sir Richard Brown, bart., Lord Mayor, at the cost of the Merchant Taylors,’ London, 1660, 4to (Brit. Mus.; Huth); reprinted by Fairholt (Percy Soc., vol. x.). Pepys mentions his having witnessed this show.
- ‘Neptune's Address … to Charls the Second, congratulating his happy coronation, 22 April 1661, in several shews upon the Water before Whitehall,’ London, 1661, 4to (Brit. Mus.).
- ‘London's Tryumphes, presented in several delightful scaenes both on the Water and on land … in honour of Sir John Frederick, knight and baronet, Lord Mayor,’ 1661, 4to, at the cost of the Grocers (Brit. Mus.; Guildhall; Huth). This water triumph was ‘the first solemnity of this nature,’ says Evelyn, ‘after twenty years’—since 1641. It was witnessed by the king, who had joined the Grocers' Company for the occasion, from Cheapside.
- ‘The Entertainment of the King and Queen by the City of London on the Thames … in several Shews and Pageants, 3 April 1662,’ London, 4to.
- ‘Aqua Triumphalis; being a True Relation of the Honourable City of London's Entertaining their Sacred Majesties upon the River of Thames, and Wellcoming them from Hampton-Court to Whitehall … 23 Aug. 1662,’ London, folio, in prose and verse (see Evelyn, Diary, 23 June 1662) (Brit. Mus.; Guildhall; Huth).
- ‘London's Triumph … in honour of Sir John Robinson, Lord Mayor … at the cost of the Clothworkers …’ 1662, 4to (Brit. Mus.).
- ‘Londinum Triumphans … in honour of Sir Anthony Bateman, Lord Mayor, at the cost of the Skinners,’ 1663, 4to (Guildhall).
- ‘London's Triumphs … in honour of Sir John Lawrence, Lord Mayor … at the cost of the Haberdashers, 1664,’ 4to (Brit. Mus.; Guildhall). The banquet following this pageant cost, according to Evelyn, a thousand pounds. It was the last pageant written by Tatham. In consequence of the great plague and fire the shows were minimised during the next few years, but were revived with unusual splendour in 1671 under the auspices of a new laureate, Thomas Jordan [q. v.]
In addition to his plays and pageants, Tatham was responsible for at least two small volumes of verse. The first, entitled ‘Fancies Theater,’ by Iohn Tatham, gent., London, 1640, sm. 8vo, is dedicated to Sir John Winter [q. v.], and at signature I 4 appears, with a fresh title, ‘Love crownes the End,’ a pastoral (see above). There are commendatory verses by R. Broome, Thomas Nabbes, C. Gerbier, George Lynn, H. Davison, William Barnes, Thomas Rawlins, Robert Chamberlain, George Sparke, and others, and the work contains an elegy on the writer's loving friend, John Day (Brit. Mus.; Huth). The volume was reissued in 1657 as ‘The Mirrour of Fancies. With a Tragi-Comedy intitled Love crowns the End,’ London, 12mo. Tatham's second volume of verse was entitled ‘Ostella; or the faction of Love and Beauty reconcil'd. By I. T. gent.’ London, 1650, 4to. Prefixed is an engraved portrait of the poet, with a quatrain by Chamberlain, artist unknown (Brit. Mus., imperfect; Bodleian).
[Dramatists of the Restoration, 1878; Fairholt's Lord Mayors' Pageants (Percy Soc.) 1843; Nichols's London Pageants, pp. 107–10; Fleay's Biogr. Chronicle of the Stage, ii. 260; Collier's Bridgwater Cat. ii. 414–15; Corser's Collectanea, iv. 313–14; Addit. MS. 24488 f. 20 (Hunter's Chorus Vatum); Beloe's Anecdotes, 1807, i. 330; Halliwell's Dict. of English Plays, 1860; Hazlitt's Collections and Notes; Baker's Biogr. Dram.; Granger's Biogr. Hist.; Winstanley's Lives; Brydges's Restituta; Guildhall, Bodleian, Huth, and Brit. Mus. catalogues.]
TATHAM, WILLIAM (1752–1819), soldier and engineer, born in 1752 at Hutton-in-the-Forest in Cumberland, was the eldest son of Sandford Tatham, rector of Hutton and vicar of Appleby, by his wife, a daughter of Henry Marsden of Gisborne Hall in Yorkshire. He was brought up in the house of his maternal grandmother until her death in 1760, and in 1769 was sent to America to seek his fortune. He obtained the post of clerk in the house of Carter & Trent, mer-
