BiCKNAKD — Rivluird Tdlbol, Archhialiop itiid Clmnccllur. 22'{ 



and tlie Deputy in the King's name, and on their non-appearance seized the 

 Constaljleship, and took measures for the safe custody of the castle, and the 

 prisoners who were confined in it.* Certainly, he was a strong and masterful 

 man. 



We have memoranda of his having received grants of land, for his services, 

 on several occasions — the estates of one Matthew St. John- (part of the manor 

 of Trim), and also the manor of Newcastle Lyons with Tassagard.' This, 

 indeed, was only what was customary at the time, and, as I have pointed out, 

 in those days, statesmen were dependent on the favour of the Crown, or on 

 Church patronage, for the means of supporting their great positions. Yet the 

 evidence seems to show that Eichard Talbot was specially forward in securing 

 emoluments for himself and his friends, while at the same time he appears 

 frequently to have been embarrassed by the need of money. His list of Here- 

 fordshire preferments has already been gi\en. When Dean of Chichester he 

 was indebted to the earl of Devon for £400, which — apparently — he did not 

 repay. ^ In 1431 he pleaded for, and obtained, further respite in regard to the 

 payment of fees due to the papal see for the pall, which had been delivered to 

 him thirteen years before.* In a will made in 14.38 by a baker belonging to 

 the Gild of St. Anne," the testator enumerates among the debts due to his 

 estate, £10 owing for bread by the Archbishop of Dublin, of which the baker 

 remits 40s., " so that the said Lord Archbishop may be favourable to Joan his 

 wife." £10 was a large sum in those days. 



He appears to have received £500 a year from the Irish Exchequer as 

 Judiciar in 1419,' and he obtained for himself on 13 July, 142.3, an allowance 

 of 10s. a day, in addition to his accustomed fees as Chancellor. On 10 Feb., 

 1449, a mandate was issued for paying this allowance, Talbot being at this 

 period Lord Deputy.' It is more significant, perhaps, that a grant which, 

 when acting as Lord Deputy, he obtained for his esquire, John Charneles, of 

 the office of the king's escheator, clerk of the market, and keeper of weights 

 and measures, was annulled on appeal,' after his nominee had enjoyed the 

 emoluments for nearly six years. And in 1451, his successor in the see of 

 Dublin, Michael Tregury, made complaint to the papal see that a large part 



' Gilbert, I. c, p. 578. 



- Treshaui, Chancery Bolls, p. 231. 



■* Calendar of Patent Bolls, 3 June, 1442. 



■> Gal. of Patent Bolls, 21 Oct. 1416. 



^ Cal. of Papal Registers, 12 Aug., 1418 ; cf. Brady, Episcopal Siuxession, I, 325. 



« See infra, p. 224. 



" Wylie, Reign of Henry V, p. 67. 



s Whitelaw and Walsh, History of DiMin, i, 248. 



'■' Cal. of Patent Bolls, 26 Nov., 1424 ; 8 May, 1430. 



