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 SHREWSBURY. 137 the Regent Bedford, &'c, he i.s said to have "been victorious in 40 several battles and daugeruus skirmishes/' ( a ) but was, however, taken prisoner by " the Maid of Orleans " at Patay, IS Jnne 1 129, tho' released in 1-132 ; was Gov. and T.ieut. Gen. of France and Normandy, 1438-40 i .Joint Commissary to treat for peace with France, 1442 ; MmisiIal ok Fkancr and Nohmanuy, 1445 ; Capt of ths Fleet; Capt. Gen. of the army for France and Lieut. Gen. of the Duchy of Aquitaine, 1452, effecting the capture of Falaise and Bordeaux. His services in Ireland were of equal importance, being Ch. Gov. (as L. Lieut.), 1414-19 (when he put down a considerable rebellion) so also (as L. Justice), 1425-211. and finally (as L. Lieut.). 1445-47. In reward for his services ho was elected, 6 May 1 124, KG, and was a: 20 May 1442,( b ) EARL OF THK COUNTY OF SALOP [i.e., EARL OF SHREWSBURY], being the next year cr. 17 July 1446, KARL OF THE COUNTY AND CITY OF WATKRFORD [I.], made (hereditary) STEWARD ok Ikkland, and granted the castle, Lordship, honour, lands, and liarony of l)ungarvau.( c ) His first wife abovenamed d. in or before 1433 and was bur. at Worktop Abbey. He m. secondly Margaret, 1st da. of Richard (Bead- CHAMP), KaIIL OP WaBWICK, by his first wife (to whom she was coheir', Elizabeth, suo jure BaROMBSS LlSLK. He d. 17 July 1453, aged about 63, being slain by a cannon shut at the battle of Chastillon,( d ) near Bordeaux, where his troops were defeated by the French. ( e ) M.L at Whitchurch, Salop. 0 His widow d. 14 June 1467, and was 6ur. in St. Paul's, Londou.( a ) Talbot, whose son, John, Ear] of Salop, was thus designated in his patent of creation to the Earldom of Waterford, 1446, ami the Earls of Shrewsbury, his successors, have since been constantly styled in charters and letters patent from the Crown, as well as in the Journals of the House of Lords in Ireland, ' Earls of Wexford,' though no instrument of creation is extant, nor does it appear that any such instrument ever existed. It is further to be remarked that upon the death of John, Earl of Pembroke, in 1391, Reginald, Lord Grey de Ruthyn, his nearest heir, assumed, with the title of Hastings, that of Weysford or Wexford also, and is constantly described as ; S r de Hastings, de Weysford, ami de Ruthyn.' His graudsou, Fdniuud, Karl of Kent, is so styled in bis patent of creation in 1465, and the name is still found connected with his descendant, the present [1857] Marquess of Hastings, son of the Baroness Grey de Kuthyn, although his usage of ' Weysford 1 as a Christian name would Beem to show that tho history of its origin has long since been lost sight of." (") Anstis's MS., as quoted in " Collins." He is styled by Shakespeare " the great AlcideB of the field," and it was said that the name of Talbot was used by the French as a bughear. With his death the English dominion in France came practically to an end. ( b ) " The dignity conferred upon John, Lord Talbot, by the patent of 20 May 1 442, is that of Eakl ok (the county of) Salop and not of Shrewsbury, by which, designa- tion his successors have been known. The patent grants the * nomen et honorem coinitis Salop,' and then proceeds further to grant a rent charge of £20 ' de exitibz et p'ticiis corn p'dc'i p'mauus vicecoinitis ejuidem com.' " [Court/tope.] (°) The patent is given in cxtcnso in Vincent's " Brooke." C) With the Earl was slain his 4th son, John (Talbot), Viscount and Baron Lisle, (so cr. in 1451, and 1444), who was the eldest sou of his second wife, the heiress of Lisle. 1°) There is a print of him in Upton's " De re militari," in Pennant's " Journey to London," and in Lodge's " Illustrations ; " also a characteristic eugraving "from MS. Iteg., 15 lid. VI.," is in " Doyle." A quaint picture of him in his tabard (said to have been removed by one of the Heralds from it's place above the tomb of his widow at old St. Paul's, and bo preserved from the fire of Loudon in 1666) is among the (few) pictures at the College of Arms. (') The date of death is there given as 17 July, the place as " apud Burdeuus," and his titles as Earl of Salop, Lord Talbot, Lord de Furnivall, Lord Verdon, Lord Strange de Blackmere, and a Marshal of France. He was not, however, entitled to the Barony of Verdon of which his wife was but a coheir. An epitaph, existing in a MS. book at the time of the visitation of Salop in 1663, which, says Dugdale, " was heretofore written, as I guess, on some tablet hanging neere this tomb" is as under, "Here lyetli the Ri B ht Noble Ivnight, John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, Earle of Washford li e, WexfordJ, Waterford, and Valence, Lord Talbot of Goodrich and Urchinfield,