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 9»s. VL SEPT. 243 NOTES AND QUERIES. settled at Gainsborough in that county from about the middle of the twelfth century, from which the Lords de FIsle of Rougemont, co. Bedford, were amongst others descended. Were their lands in Lincolnshire exchanged 37 Hen. III. (1252-3) for the manor of Baschelf or Bashall in Lancashire and Yorkshire by Edmund, Earl of Lincoln, or was this manor an additional grant to the family ? 3. The history of the acquisition of property in Slaidburn, co. Lancaster, temp. Rich. II., by one of the offshoots of the Bashall branch, and their genealogy post circa 1500. 4. The direct ancestor of another offshoot of the last-mentioned branch which settled at Salesbury, co. Lancaster, probably during the latter half of the fourteenth century, and their genealogy. 5. Who were the Talbots of Cottenham, •fee., co. Cambridge, anno 1546 ? 6. The later history of the branch settled at Swannington, co. Leicester, 6 Ed. I. (1277-8). 7. A full and thorough account of the Irish Talbots, and the same of the American branches. The following arms, amongst others, are attributed to the family, viz. : (1) Qu., a lion rampant within a bordure engr. or: (2) Arg., a lion rampant purpure; (3) Arg., three lions rampant purpure; (4) Arg., two lions passant gu.—in one case quartered with (1) ; (5) Gu., two bars vair ; (6) Barry bendy of ten, arg. and gu.; (7) Barry of six, or (?arg.) and gu.; (8) Or, three inescutcheons vair ; (9) Arg., a lion rampant gu. Most of these require more particular identification as to the branch to which they were assigned; and additional coats are to be found in the various published armories and ordinaries, which the writer has not had an opportunity of noting, but to which the same remark applies. In conclusion, a few remarks upon a query which appeared in ' N. & Q.' (8th S. iv. 485) re the Talbots of Carr Hall, co. Lancaster, and which has so far remained unanswered, will probably be acceptable. The Carr Hall family probably originated from either the Salesbury or. the Slaidburn branch, the former of which forfeited at any rate a portion of their estates between 1651 and 1655, and at the close of the seventeenth century one Dorothy Talbot is said to have carried the remainder into the Warren family. Salesbury Hall (a ruin in 1824), on the banks of the Ribble, nearly opposite Ribchester, was (in common with the manor house of Little Mitton, in Whallev, co. Lancaster) probably a duplicate, or nearly so, of Samlesbury manor house, situated a short distance to the south-wast of Ribchester, and for 350 years the seat of the South worth family. The latter is thus described by Whitaker (' History of Whalley'): - "A structure of high antiquity, probably not later than Edward III., largely built of oak, of which timber there is about it such a profusion and bulk that mill almost have laid prostrate a forest to erect it. The great hall in the centre is a noble specimen of moat rude and massive woodwork, and the principal timbers in the house are carved with great elegance, the compartments of the roof being painted with figures of saints, while the outsides of the building are adorned with profile heads of wood, cut in bold relief, with huge medallions, and it is curious to observe that the inner doors are without a panel or a lock, and have always been opened, like those of modern cottages, with a latch or string. It is also remarkable that in this house the boards of the upper floors, which are indeed massive planks, lie parallel to the joists instead of crossing them, as if disdaining to be indebted to the others for support."* Slaidburn parish, according to the Ord- nance Survey, comprises, with Slaidburn Flats extra-parochial, 40,033 acres, and con- sists of the township of Slaidburn, forest of Bowland, Newton, and Easington. The town- ship of Slaidburn contains 5,182 acres, and in 1871 the population of the parish was 1,615 persons, living in 316 houses. Carr Hall is four miles south-west of Colne. co. Lancaster. It'was at one time occupied by Sir Edward Sherburne, Knt., and from 1779 until after 1825 by Thomas Clayton, Esq. In 8 Hen. VIII. (1516) Thomas, Earl of Derby, sued Thomas Southworth in the Duchy Court of Lancaster re commission and return on a disputed title to manorial rights, rents of lands and houses, at Samlesbury manor and Carre House, co. Lancaster, forfeited by the attainder of Francis, late Lord Lovell, and granted by Hen. VII. to plaintiffs grand- father. In 1652-3 George Talbot, of Carr. co. Lancaster, had his estate seized and secured by the County Commissioners on information of his assisting the Earl of Derby in 1651. Now is it not possible that Cartown, co. Kildare (one of the seats of the Irish Talbots in the seventeenth century), may have been so named after Carr in Lancashire 1 If so, then George Talbot. of Castle Rooney, co. Roscommon (son of Sir George Talbot, of 1 Surely this was shipwright's work. It seems probable that several of thfe leading families thus employed in this neighbourhood migrated to Dept- ford, co. Kent, at the time of, or shortly after, the establishment of the Royal Dockyard there in 1513, including some of the Lancashire Talbots. My records of the Deptford Talbots date back con- tinuously to 1713, and they probably represent the Slaidburn line, whose burial-place was at Stede, co. Lancaster, and Great Berkhamstcad (? co. Herts),