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 , Camd. Soc. pp. 32–4). In 1539 he was presented to the rectory of Lackingdon with the chapel of ‘Laulingham,’ Essex (''Lansd. MS''. 980, f. 249). In 1540 he sat in convocation, and on 9 July signed the judgment pronounced by the convocations of both provinces on the nullity of Henry VIII's marriage with Anne of Cleves. On 23 June 1541 he was admitted to the prebend of Wedmore in Wells Cathedral, and from 1542 to 1546 he was vicar of Westwell, Kent. In the latter year he was instituted to the rectory of Thorpe Malsover, Northamptonshire. On 9 April 1547 Talbot was collated to the second stall in Norwich Cathedral, of which he also became treasurer. In 1554 he became rector of Burlingham St. Peter, Norfolk, and in 1555 rector of Haversham, Berkshire. He died in August or September 1558, and was buried in Norwich Cathedral. By his will, dated 20 Aug. 1558, he left his choicest manuscripts to New College, Oxford.

Talbot was an industrious antiquary; Leland was his intimate friend, and addressed verses to him (, Encomia, 1589, p. 75). Camden calls him ‘a learned antiquary’ (Britannia, edit. 1789, ii. 72), and William Lambarde describes him as ‘a diligent trauayler in the Englishe hystorye’ (Perambulation of Kent, 1576, p. 353). Similar praise came from Dr. John Caius, Abraham Ortelius, and Bale. Talbot's only published work is his ‘Annotationes in eam partem Antonini itinerarii quæ ad Britanniam pertinet,’ which was printed in vol. iii. of Hearne's edition of Leland's ‘Itinerary,’ 1710–12. Manuscript copies are in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. ci. art. 16, and in Cottonian MS. Vitellius D. vii.; a third, with additions by Dr. John Caius, is among the manuscripts of Caius College, Cambridge. (1609–1657) [q. v.] made extensive use of Talbot's work in his ‘Comment on Antoninus his Itinerary,’ 1658, fol. Talbot's other works are ‘Aurum ex stercore, versibus constans præcipue monasticis, moralibus, jocosis, medicis …’ extant in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS. cclviii. art. 8; and a miscellaneous collection of transcripts in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS. ccclxxix. An extract from his book of medical receipts, probably the ‘Aurum ex Stercore,’ is in Rawlinson MS. c. 816, f. 763.



TALBOT, THOMAS (fl. 1580), antiquary, was the second son of John Talbot (d. 1551) of Salebury, Lancashire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Richard Banaster of Altham (Cotton MS. Vespasian D. xvii. 49;, Whalley, ii. 377). He does not seem to have been educated at Oxford, though Wood notices him and says he was called ‘Limping Talbot’ on account of his lameness. Before 1580 he had become clerk of the records in the Tower, and probably he was the ‘learned’ Mr. Talbot referred to by Dr. [q. v.] in 1582 (Diary, Camden Soc. pp. 15, 16). He was an original member of the Society of Antiquaries (Archæologia, vol. i. pp. xii, xvii), and occurs in Francis Tate's list of members in 1590 (Stowe MS. 1045, f. 2). Talbot was indefatigable in his researches into the records under his charge, and Camden wrote: ‘Not to conceal my obligations to any, I must acknowledge myself under very great ones to Thomas Talbot, a diligent examiner of records and perfect master of our antiquities’ (Britannia, ed. Gough, vol. i. p. cxlviii). None of Talbot's collections are known to have been published. The principal are: collections relating to abbeys, extracts from chronicles and pedigrees (including that of his own family) in Cottonian MS. Vespasian D. xvii.; a collection of historical and constitutional antiquities in Harleian MS. 2223; a collection of abstracts from ‘Inquisitiones post mortem’ relating to Yorkshire families in Additional MS. 26717; an account of the proceedings of the court of claims at the coronations of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V in Lansdowne MS. 279; a ‘Catalogus Archicamerariorum Angliæ’ in Ashmolean MS. 792; collections of pedigrees in Ashmolean MSS. 799 i. and 1107; ‘Collectanea e Rotulis in Turri Lond. servatis’ in Ashmolean MS. 799, ii.; notes from his genealogical collections are extant in Rawlinson MS. B. 103. It is probable that many other antiquarian collections, the authorship of which has not been determined, were by Talbot (cf. Cat. Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 26717).



TALBOT, THOMAS (1771–1853), colonist, fourth son of Richard Talbot (d. 1788) of Malahide Castle, co. Dublin, and younger