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George Talbot, Ninth Earl of Shrewsbury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Basil FitzGibbon S.J.
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An original document of the early seventeenth century in the form of a letter, kept in the archives of the English College, Valladolid (1.), gives a remarkable description of the holy life and happy death of an unnamed Recusant peer, who died in England at seven o’ clock in the morning of 2 April 1630. The letter is dated by the writer the next day and is evidently an exchange between two priests, who had been intimate with the deceased and were well known to one another.

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British Catholic History , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 1953 , pp. 96 - 110
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1953

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Notes

(1) Serie.II.L. 3.

(2) Mr J.B.Whitmore kindly drew attention of the editor to the evidence that George Talbot died 2 April, 1630, and that his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on May 10, 1630, by his nephew and successor, John the 10th Earl. J. and G.F.Matthews; Abtracts of Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 1630–1634. 1902. p.48.

(3) Registers of Valladolid. C.R.S. Vol.30, p.19.

(4) Foley. VII. p.632.

(5) Registers of Valladolid. C.R.S. 30. p.98. Foley was certainly mistaken in identifying Land and Lane. The Thomas Lane in the Annual Catalogue under the York district for 1621 is a Suffolk man, 39 years old, 9 years in the Society and 11 years on the mission. These details would seem to identify him with Student No.196.

(6) e.g. Complete Peerage, Burke”s Peerage, Doyle, Foley &o. Foley was misled by this error into an attempt to identify the George Talbot of Lancashire (probably of Bashall) with George Talbot of Grafton. Foley. VI. 196.

(7) Calendar S.P.D. James I. 1611–1618. p. 521. For Brent see D.N.B.

(8) A.Bradshaw O.S.B. to Cardinal de Givry. 18 August 1607. (cited in Revue Benedictine. Oct.1930. p.347.)

(9) C.R.S. Vol VIII. p.121, where Gillow gives a very useful note based doubtless on material gathered for his Dictionary, which he was unable to use in the mangled last volume.

(10) S.P.Dom. Elizabeth. Vol.219. No.77.

(11) Douai Diary. C.R.S. Vol.11, p.61.

(12) Morris; Condition of Catholics under James I. p.co.

(13) ibid.

(14) Camden Society Miscellany Vol.2. p.60.

(15) Calendar S.P.D. Charles I. 1627–8. p.315.

(16) ibid. p. 277, 337.

(17) Hughes, T: History of the Society of Jesus in North America. Text. Vol.1. p.206.

(18) Camden Society Miscellany. Vol.2, p.21, 22. Calendar S.P.D. Charles I. 1628–29. p.242.

(19) Calendar S.P.D. 1629–31. p.87.

(20) The heir was John Talbot, son of his brother John Talbot of Longford, who died in 1607. His wife was Mary Fortescue, daughter of Sir Francis Fortescue of Salden, Bucks. John Talbot was aged at this time about thirty and had children. George, his eldest son, who predeceased him by three years in 1651 was then aged about ten. Francis, the second son, who succeeded as eleventh earl, was aged about seven.

(21) A veiled reference to saying Mass with the new earl as server.

(22) This reference would seem to imply that the person addressed had at one time been chaplain to the late Earl.

(23) George Talbot was buried at Albrighton, Salop.

(24) The eighth Earl succeeded to few of the estates and there were three coheiresses to his brother's property. There was a scandalous feud between the brothers and much litigation. The Grafton estates had been subjected to constant fines for the recusancy of the owners.

(25) William, 2nd Baron Petre of Writtle, who died in 1637.

(26) If George Talbot had ever been ordained priest, such a vow would be contained in the obligation of celibacy undertaken in the reception of Holy Orders.

(27) The will is dated 22 March.