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 140 SHREWSBURY. the Council of the North, 1553. He was one of the 26 Peers(i) who signed, 16 June 1553, the letters patent whereby Ed. VI. settled the Crown on Lady Jane Grey. He was a firm adherent of the old faith, bring, with Viscount Montacute, one of the two Peers, who in 1560 opposed the Hill for abolishing the supremacy of the Pope. He m. firstly, before i Dec. 1523, Mary. da. of Thomas (DacRK), 'id Lord DachE DF. Gii.LK.slanu, by Elizabeth, sua jure Hauoxkss Gukystikk. She (/. 29 March 1538 and was bur. at Sheffield. He »i. secondly, before Aug. 1658) Grace, widow of Francis CarklesS. da. of Hubert SBACKSHEBY, oi Little Longsdon, CO. Derby ( h ). She d. s.p. Aug. 155S. He d. at his manor of Sheffield, 21 Sep., and wax bur. 21 Oct. 1560 (or 16 Jan. 1560/1), at Sheffield, aged 60. Aduion. 5 Oct. 1560. IX. 1560. 6. George (Talbot), Earl ok Shrewsbury, Lord Tal- bot, &c.,( c ) 1st and only snrv. s. and hi, b. before 1528 ; ityted Lord Talbot, 15-11-60, and, as such, was one of the 40 Knights (made as K.B.'s) 20 Feb. 154G/7,( d ) at the coron. nf Ed. Vf. He served with distinction in the Scotch invasion under his father, lie (like his predecessor) was sum. v.p. to Pari., 5 Jau. 1552/3, in his father's Barony as LORD TALBOT. He, together with his father, signed the letters pateut, 16 June 1653, settling the Crown on Lady Jane Grey.(*) He sue. to the Earldom, as above, 25 Sep. 1560 ; was el. KG. 22 April, and inst., IS May 1561 ; was L. Lieut, ol the counties of York, Nottingham, Derby, and Stafford ; was for IS years, Dec. 1568 to Oct. 1584, the Custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots; P.C., 1571 ; High Steward, 16 Jan. 1572, for the trial of the Duke of Norfolk, in whose room he was made Earl Mahsual, 2 Jau. 1572 ; was one of the triers of the Queen of Scots, 6 Oct. 1586, as also (for her execution), Feb. 1586/7. He m. firstly, about 1548, Gertrude, 1st da. of Thomas (Manners), 1st Karl ok Rktland, by his second wife, Eleanor, da. of Sir William Paston. She d. 1556. He m. secondly, i) Feb. 1568, Elizabeth, widow of Sir William St. Los, Capt of the Guard, formerly widow of Sir William Cavendish (by whom she was ancestress of the Dukes of Devonshire) and, before that, of Robert BaRLKT, of Barley, co. Derby, being 1th da. and coheir of John Hardwrk, of Hanhvick, co. Derby, by Elizabeth, da of Thomas Leake, of Hatland, in that couuty. He i Nov. 1590, and was bur. 13 Jan. following at Sheffield. M.I.( e ; Will dat. 24 Juue 1590, pr. in London ami York, 1591. His widow (the celebrated "Bess of Hardwick," builder of Uardwick Hall, Chatsworth, &c), by whom he had no issued) d. 13 April 1607/8, aged 87, and was bur. (with her second husband) at Allhallows, Derby. Will pr. 1608. i'Francis Talbot, styled Lord Talbot, 1st e. and h. ap., h. about 1550 : matric. at Oxford (St. John's Coll.) about 1566. He m. 17 Feb. 1562/3, at ( a ) See vol. iii, p. 70, note " f," sub " Derby," for a list of these. ( b ) See Hunter's " HpBamshirt" where (pp. 5 1-77) is a good account of the first 8 Earls of the Talbot family, and where it is shewn that this Grace is erroneously called " widow of Robert Shackerley. of Hoi me, co. Chester,'' by Lodge, in his " Illustrations of British History." The Earl, after her death, made proposals to Lady Pope, widow of the founder of Triu. Coll., Oxford, and their letters are among the unpublished Talbot MSS. (<•■) See p. 139, note "a," as to the Earldom of Waterford. (•') See vol. iii, p. 71, note " c," sub " Derby." ( c ) His mon. inscription (in which, it having been engraved in his lifetime, the date of death is left blank), is given in •' Dwjdule." Like that of the second Earl it numbers his Earldom (" Salopite Comes ... Cotnitum ordine scxlus,") and crediU him with the Baronies of Talbot, Furnivall, Verdon, Lovetot, and Strange de Rlackiuere. No mention, however, is nude of the Earldom of Waterford (see p. 139, note "a"). His descent is said to have been "from an unblemished and noble stock before the Norman Conquest" His good-looking portrait "after T. Cook, engr.," is engraved in " Doyle." (f) They lived on very bad terms, and the Queen had often to bo a peacemaker between them. He writes in July 15S6 " of my wicked wife, her tyteling [tattling] i" her Majesty's ear," and agaiu to his said wife, on 5 Aug. following, that " there is no creature more happy and more fortunate thau you have been, for where you were defamed, and to the world a by-word, when you were St. Loe's widow, I covered those imperfections by my inter-marriage with you." Her rapacity in having induced St. Loe to leave her all his money, to the exclusion of his own daughters, is, probably, here alluded to.