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I 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 delinquency chargeable on Mr. Talbot than 

 j. his being a colonel — that his estates at Chippenham and Lacock, 

 after the death of his grandmother, the Lady Stapylton, are worth, 

 £352 4*. Zd. per annum — and that the committee are not aware of 

 [ any personal estate he hath in this county. Fine, on the whole, 

 I including lands in Dorsetshire, £2011. 24th October, 1646. 

 fi Colonel Sharington Talbot, on coming into Wiltshire, appears to 

 | have been held in great admiration by our local historian, John 

 L 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* 

 I The Sharington Talbot of the next generation, an officer in the 

 I Wilts Militia, fell at the time of Monmouth's rebellion, in 1685, in 

 a duel which took place after the decisive engagement at Sedgmoor, 

 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 

 i 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 



