The Reader is requested to turn also to the Addenda at the end of WHOEVER Considers the numerous accidents and decays, to which great families are liable from the waves and weather of time, will look with some respect and wonder on those, whose male line has survived in the Baronial rank for upwards of seven centuries. This family is said to be in England before the Norman conquest; but the first I find mentioned in our records is witnesses to that grant which RICHARD DE TALBOT, one of the Walter Giffard Earl of Buckingham made to the monks of Cerasie in Normandy, in the reign of William the Conqueror, which commenced October 14th, 1066. And in doomsday-book he is mentioned to hold nine hides of the said Walter; also by other authorities he is said to have great possessions in the time of the с Inscript. Tumuli apud Sheffield. b Mon. Ang. vol ii. p. 960, n. 50. Lillie's Pedig. of the Nobility, MS. p. 7. penes Joh. Com. Egmont. d Conqueror; among which were lands in Bedfordshire. This Richard married the daughter of Gerard, and sister of Hugh de Gournay; and by her had two sons, first, Geffery, a military partizan of Maud the Empress, in whose cause he exercised much cruelty; and for whom he fortified the castle of Hereford; and a benefactor to the monks of Rochester, to whom he gave his lordship of Little Wrotham in Kent; from whom descended the Talbots of Bashall and Thornhill in Yorkshire; and, second, Hugh, ancestor to the Earls of Shrewsbury and Tallot. HUGH, the youngest son of the aforesaid Richard, was made governor of the castle of Plessy in 1118, by his uncle Hugh de Gournay, who was then in rebellion against Henry I. and had slain the governor put in by the King. The said Hugh Talbot having been a benefactor to the monks of Beaubeck (in Nor mandy), at length he took the habit of a monk in that monastery, leaving issue Richard, William, and Hugh, by his wife Beatrix, daughter of William Mandeville. Which RICHARD, A. D. 1153, ratified his father's gifts to those monks; and obtained from King Henry II. a grant i of the lordship of Eccleswall and Linton, in com. Hereford, which King Richard I. afterwards confirmed for 200 marks. He married a daughter of Stephen Bulmer, of Appletree-wick, in Yorkshire; and was succeeded by GILBERT Talbot, his son and heir, who in 12 Henry II. held one knight's fee in Linton, of Robert de Ewyas, who was present at the coronation of King Richard I. in the fifth of whose reign he had lands given him m in Lintone, for the custody of the castle of Ludlow; and in 1199," gave a fine of forty shillings that he might not go beyond sea; also that he might have the scutage of his own demesnes. In 7 John, this Gilbert paid ten marks for his scutage, then assessed at two marks for each knight's fee. He left issue RICHARD, P who married Aliva, the daughter of Alan Basset, E. MS. Pergam. Famil Stanley, penes Jac. nup. com. Derb. • Gesta Regis Stephani, 951 D. Ex Autog penes Arth. A gard. Vice Cam Scacc. i Cart Antiq Tn 11, Rot. Pip. 2 H. H. Heref. Ibid. Rot. Pip 5 R. 1. Heref. n Rot. Pip. 1 Joh. Heref. 。 Rot. Pip. 7 Joh. Heref. Placit. apud Heref. pro Maner. de Linton. 2 E. 1. Test. de Nevil. Som et Dors. |