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already compounded for his personal goods. Touching his Wiltshire 
estate, the committee sitting at Marlborough, and represented by 
Robert Brown, Edmund Martyn, and John Goddard, testify that 
they know of no other delinqueney chargeable on Mr. Talbot than 
his being a colonel—that his estates at Chippenham and Lacock, 
after the death of his grandmother, the Lady Stapylton, are worth 
£352 48. 2d. per annum—and that the committee are not aware of 
any personal estate he hath in this eounty. Fine, on the whole, 
including lands in Dorsetshire, £2011. 24th October, 1646. 
Colonel Sharington Talbot, on coming into Wiltshire, appears to 
have been held in great admiration by our local historian, John 
Aubrey, and apparently by many others also, if we may judge by 
the fact that he was accorded the title of “ Father ” by two hundred 
persons (of whom Aubrey was one) styling themselves his adopted 
sons, a practice of the age to which Aubrey refers more than once. 
The Sharington Talbot of the next generation, an officer in the 
Wilts Militia, fell at the time of Monmouth’s rebellion, in 1685, in 
a duel which took place after the decisive engagement at Sedgemoor, 
between himself and Captain Love, Marshal-General of the artillery. 
It was through this branch of the Talbot family that the claim 
to the Earldom of Shrewsbury was in 1857 set up by the Rt. Hon. 
Henry Chetwynd, Earl Talbot, as deriving from John, second Earl 
of Shrewsbury. Sharington Talbot, of Salwarp and Laycock, left 
by his second marriage, with Mary, daughter of John Washbourn, 
three sons, of whom the elder died s.p., the line being continued by 
the third son, William sometime Bishop of Durham. This bishop 
was the father of Charles Talbot, Lord Chancellor of England, 
raised to the peerage in 1733 as Lord Talbot, and whose son, Lord 
Talbot, of Ingestre, was grandfather to the modern claimant. 
We began with Lady Olivia Stapylton as the grandmother of 
Sharington Talbot. Any allusion, other than the remotest, to the 
other historic characters related to her family, how attractive soever, 
would lead us too far astray. Bryan Stapylton, Sir Philip Stapylton, 
both members of the Long Parliament, and the Whig family of the 
Montagus of the neighbouring seat of Lackham (descended from 
Lady Stapylton’s daughter, Ursula); their history would fill a 
