Communicated by Mr. James Waylen, 825 
sum appearing and certified to. be in surplusage of the rents and 
profits arising out of the two-thirds aforesaid, since he submitted to 
compound, be paid back forthwith to Lord Stourton.” 
Snarmneton Tatsor, of Salwarp, in Worcestershire, and after- 
wards of Laycock, in Wilts, Esq. Soon after the dissolution of the 
monasteries Layeock Abbey was granted to Sir William Sharington. 
Aubrey records a tradition that he had been Henry the Eighth’s 
tailor, which Canon Jackson diseredits altogether, asserting that, 
though Sir William had an evil reputation for clipping and shearing, 
the art was practised, not on the King’s broad cloth, but on his coin. 
It is known that he was implicated in Sir Thomas Seymour’s revolt 
against his brother, the Protector, in furtherance of which he was 
charged with having forged £10,000 at the Bristol mint. All that 
need be added here respecting him is, that, dying without children, 
he was succeded at Laycock by his brother, Sir Henry Sharington. 
Sir Henry’s heirs were two daughters, Grace, wife ef Sir Anthony 
Mildmay, of Apethorpe, whose daughter married Francis Fane, first 
Earl of Westmoreland, already noticed among the Wilts com- 
pounders ; the other daughter, Olivia, who married John Talbot, of 
Salwarp, the romantic young lady who is traditionally said to have 
leaped from the battlements of Laycock Abbey into her lover’s arms, 
and to have well-nigh killed him by the action. She long outlived 
this devoted husband, and also a second husband, Sir Robert 
Stapylton, of Myton, near Boroughbridge ; and eventually returned 
to pass her second widowhood among the beautiful scenery of her 
nativity. Here she maintained in old-fashioned style the honours 
_ of what was called “ good housekeeping ” ; and the hospitalities of 
Lady Olivia Stapylton long made Laycock Abbey a favourite 
_ stopping-place for Royalty and gentry during the western “ Pro- 
gresses” of Elizabeth and James’s time. Her portrait is still 
preserved there. Sharington Talbot, the compounder, to whom we 
"must now revert, is Lady Olivia’s grandson. 
Mr. Talbot, in conjunction with his son, of the same name, was 
early in arms for the King, and a prominent agent in putting in 
execution the Royal commission of array, for which the Parliament 
