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 SHREWSBURY. 139 scribed the articles against Cardinal Wolsey, and in 1530 the letter to thn Pope ur ging the divorce of the Queen Consort. In 1536 he was made Lieut, of the north fo- the suppression of the rebellion called the Pihjrimafje of Grace, which, in conjunc- tion with the Duke of Norfolk, he effected the next year. Under the act 28 Hen. VIII. (1686-37), relating to Irish absentees, he was considered to have forfeited the Earl- Aune, da. of William (KaSTWOS}, 1st LouD HUSMKOS D( Hastinus, by Katharine, da. of Kichard (Nktll Earl ok Salisbury. By her, who was bur. at .Sheffield, he had eleven children, lie m. secondly, probably after 1510, Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Sir Kichard Walden, of Erith. CO, Kent. He (/. 26 at his manor of Wingheld | co. Derby, and was bur. 27 July 1538, at Sheffield afsd. Will dat. 21 Aug. 1537, pr. 13 Jan. 1538/9.f'J His widow d. July 1567, and was Our. at Erith. Will dat. 30 June, pr. 17 July 1567. [Henry Talbot, styled Lord Talbot, tat s. and b. ap. by first wife. He d. au infant and v. p. and was bur. in Calke priory, co. Derby.] VIII. 1538. o. Francis (Talbot), Ear:, of Shrewsbury, Lord Talbot, &o.,^>) 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. by first wife, was b. 1500 in the castle of Sheffield ; was sum. v. p. to l'arl. in his father's Barony as LOKD TALBOT and took his seat on or before 15 Jan. 1532/3. He was bearer of the Queen's sceptre at the coronation of Anne Boleyne, 1 June 1533 ; sue. to the A'arM' m, &c, as above, 26 July 1538; took part in the Scottish invasion and was Capt. (Jen. of the army in the north, 1511-15 ; el. K.G., 23 April, and inst., 17 May 1545; P.C. to Ed. VI, Mary and Elizabeth; L. Lieut, of the counties of York, Lancaster, Chester, Derby, Salop, Stafford, and Nottingham ; L. President of ("; As to the Earldom of Water ford the following remarks elucidate its peculiar position, as also that of the so-called Earldom of Wtxford, between 1536-37 and 1660. "The state of Ireland having been much neglected for the English wars on the Continent and the intestine broils in England, an act, 2S Hen. VIII. [1536-37J, called the 'Statute of Absentees,' was passed in Ireland, whereby the Dlkb Of Norfolk, the Eaul ov Shrewsbury, Loud Berkeley, and the heirs general of the Haul OF On.MOND, were obliged for their absence and care- lessness in defending their rights to surrender the same to the Crown." ["Collins," vol. iii, p. 14, where is added, from Lord Mountmorres's " History of the early transactions of the Irish Pari," the following statement.] " John, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, was e>*. Earl of Waterford and Wexford in 21 Hen. VI. ; a large tract of land and a great jurisdiction were Conferred upon him by the Crown iu Ireland. These titles and this grant were forfeited by act of Pari., 28 Hen. VIII. It may appear extraordinary that the title should be forfeited for non-residence, but, in early times, titles were not merely nominal but denoted also a jurisdiction and superiuten- dauce in certain territorial districts. These titles were [accordingly] not inserted in the list of the Irish Peers in the journals till after the Restoration," when the Earl, having been restored in 1660 by Charles II., " was introduced by his proxy in the House of Lords in Ireland in the following session. The Lords of Ireland would not [however] suffer Lord Shrewsbury to take his seat according to the original patent (21 Hen. VI.) but placed him after the Earl of Montnith agreeably to the date of the renewal of these ancient titles in 1660." According to the construction that Sir Edward Coke and the other Judges put (in 1612) upon the "Act of Absentees" (27 Hen. VIII., 1537), that act " doth not only take away the possessions which were given to him [the Earl of Waterford] at the time of his creation but also the dignity itself." It is to be observed, however, that the " possessions " affected were, iu this ease, solely the Seiguory of Wexford which the first Earl held by inheritance (and not by yrant with the title of Waterford) and that this opinion (which was but au opinion) has never been acknowledged by the Crown and the House of Lords [I.], the only competent tribunal. ( b ) This is the date given in " Brooke " tho' corrected [?] by Vincent to " He dyed the 26 of July, A". 33, H. 8, 1541," a date which, iu the face of his will having been proved some years previously, is manifestly erroneous tho' generally adopted. ( c ) He is said by Polydore Virgil to have been " a person noble, prudent, and moderate, throughout the whole course of his life." A sketch of him " from his effigy, after J. Busire, eugr.," is in " Doyle"
 * >M ul Wattrfard [T.J(') as well as all his Irish property. He «t. firstly, about 14S6,