regshoe

I do remember a Taaffe appearing in the section about Charles II in exile in The King's Touch by Jude Morgan. That must have been Theobald Taaffe.

I have not read that! Theobald figures prominently in Elizabeth Goudge's The Child from the Sea (1970), since it's a historical novel about Lucy Walter, but in a sort of romantic-tragic vein, which does not especially match the letters written him by Charles II. (There's an archive at the Beinecke which I did manage to read while still at Yale.)