John Talbot of Grafton

<h2 id="life">Life</h2>
The descendant of an influential landowning family (his grandfather <a href="/facts/John_Talbot_(died_1549)/nL5Nhpx3">John Talbot (died 1549)</a> was <a href="/facts/Lord_of_the_manor/HMcc2nJX">lord of the manor</a> of <a href="/facts/Albrighton,_Bridgnorth/vHQ2wAgY">Albrighton</a>, Shropshire, residing at Pepperhill in Shropshire and <a href="/facts/Grafton_Manor/2MFjcKSH">Grafton</a>), John Talbot became a member of <a href="/facts/Lincoln%27s_Inn/caPWmoHY">Lincoln's Inn</a>, 10 February 1555–6.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> He was member of Parliament for <a href="/facts/Droitwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)/7bEULrGd">Droitwich</a> in 1572.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>
It was when passing through <a href="/facts/Smithfield,_London/xK9H6aoQ">Smithfield, London</a>, in July 1580, with Talbot and his wife Katherine Petre, that <a href="/facts/Robert_Johnson_(martyr)/NoxR0whJ">Robert Johnson</a>, the Catholic martyr, was recognized by Sledd, the informer. <a href="/facts/Robert_Persons/sCuucdtX">Robert Persons</a> calls Robert Johnson "Mr. Talbot's priest", though, as it appears, he was, rather, Lady Petre's. Talbot was committed to the custody of the Dean of Westminster, 24 August 1580, and afterwards removed to the house of his brother-in-law, Sir John Petre, in <a href="/facts/Aldersgate_Street/hTfY6FXC">Aldersgate Street</a>. On 1 October 1581, the <a href="/facts/Bubonic_plague/N9dCQ3EP">plague</a> being then rife in the city, he was moved to some other house within ten or twelve miles of London.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>
In 1583 the priest, Hugh Hall, confessed that he had in past years been entertained by him. Later Talbot was restricted to the house of one Henry Whitney, at <a href="/facts/Mitcham/jjAv69Xs">Mitcham</a>, <a href="/facts/Surrey/xTGvM5Vk">Surrey</a>, and two miles round it. In 1588 he was imprisoned in <a href="/facts/Wisbech_Castle/CCIVcYUw">Wisbech Castle</a> for having heard Mass contrary to the provisions of the <a href="/facts/Religion_Act_1580/I8WlKGPF">Religion Act 1580</a>. From 9 December 1588 to about 13 May 1589, he was liberated on bail, owing to his own and his wife's bad health. He then seems to have been restricted to his house in <a href="/facts/Clerkenwell/sfbeJ15u">Clerkenwell</a>, London.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>
On 12 March 1589–90, he was ordered into confinement at the house of Richard Fiennes at <a href="/facts/Broughton,_Oxfordshire/ay0wgv28">Broughton, Oxfordshire</a>, whence he was released on bail for a fortnight on 24 May 1590. He was again allowed out on bail on 20 December 1590, and 22 July 1591. In 1592 he was at "Bickslie" (<a href="/facts/Bexley/C07GARho">Bexley</a> or <a href="/facts/Bickley/e2sy2Kgv">Bickley</a>?) Kent. On 27 August 1592, the recusants formerly imprisoned at <a href="/facts/Ely,_Cambridgeshire/mJA7kN5u">Ely</a>, <a href="/facts/Banbury/3S7l76Mp">Banbury</a>, and Broughton were ordered back to their respective prisons; but an exception was made (17 September 1592) in favour of John Talbot. However, the following year he was in Ely gaol. Thence he was liberated on bail for a considerable period to act as umpire in a family dispute.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a>
Later on he was allowed to take "the Bathes", presumably at <a href="/facts/Bath,_Somerset/mHppKuoG">Bath</a>, on account of his health. Between <a href="/facts/Michaelmas/c38Xtz82">Michaelmas</a>, 1593, and 10 March following, he paid £120 in fines for recusancy. Afterwards he was imprisoned in <a href="/facts/Banbury_Castle/vPjXvbqg">Banbury Castle</a>, whence he was released on bail for two months, 27 February 1596–7, his leave being subsequently extended on 29 April 1597, and 6 November, 1597.
In 1601 he was living in Worcestershire and pressure was brought to bear on him to secure his influence to promote the candidature of <a href="/facts/Sir_Thomas_Leighton/KtXPhB1X">Sir Thomas Leighton</a> as one of the parliamentary representatives of the shire. In 1604 he was paying £20 a month in fines for his recusancy, the benefit of which was on 26 August granted to Sir William Anstruther, who on 13 October in the same year obtained his pardon. On the following 8 December a warrant was issued for the release to him of £160, due from him to the Crown in fines for recusancy.
In 1605 he was suspected of complicity with the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, one of whom, <a href="/facts/Robert_Wintour/eDMbBu1V">Robert Wintour</a>, of Huddington near <a href="/facts/Droitwich/dU3JwsSI">Droitwich</a>, had married his daughter Gertrude. Robert Wintour, however, declared that he had said nothing on the subject to his father-in-law, knowing that he would not join the plot under any circumstances. Indeed, he had actually driven the fugitive conspirators from his door when they arrived at his manor at Pepperhill. Talbot was, nevertheless, arrested, and on 4 December 1605, examined. On 26 September 1606, the value of his recusancy was granted to Lord Hay.
He probably died in 1607, or on 28 January 1611, and was buried at Albrighton.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a>

<h2 id="family">Family</h2>
He was the only son and heir of Sir John Talbot, of <a href="/facts/Grafton_Manor/2MFjcKSH">Grafton Manor</a>, Worcestershire, and of Albrighton, Shropshire (died 6 June 1555), and wife Frances Giffard, daughter of <a href="/facts/John_Giffard_(died_1556)/1QPaUKqE">Sir John Giffard</a>, and grandson of Sir John Talbot of Albrighton (died 10 September 1549) by his second wife Margaret Troutbeck.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a>
He was the father, by Katherine Petre, daughter of <a href="/facts/William_Petre/BnE9d54y">Sir William Petre</a> and his second wife, Anne Browne, daughter of <a href="/facts/William_Browne_(died_1514)/ybXBeea7">Sir William Browne</a>, <a href="/facts/List_of_Lord_Mayors_of_London/p6WE4oam">Lord Mayor of London</a>, of three sons and three daughters,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> who included:

<ul><li>Anne Talbot, married 18 November 1585 Thomas Hanmer (died 18 April 1619), and had issue, including <a href="/facts/Sir_John_Hanmer,_1st_Baronet/qqf3kcjn">Sir John Hanmer, 1st Baronet</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/George_Talbot,_9th_Earl_of_Shrewsbury/K6fM2Ejo">George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrewsbury</a>, a Catholic priest</li>
<li>Gertrude Talbot, married <a href="/facts/Robert_and_Thomas_Wintour/eDMbBu1V">Robert Wintour</a> of <a href="/facts/Huddington/GktyoXXg">Huddington</a>, Worcestershire (executed 30 January 1606)</li>
<li>John Talbot of <a href="/facts/Longford,_Market_Drayton/38blG94K">Longford, Market Drayton</a>, Shropshire (died <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>, in or around 1607), married Eleanor Baskerville, daughter of Sir Thomas Baskerville of Wolvershill, <a href="/facts/Herefordshire/8TfJEPda">Herefordshire</a>, and of <a href="/facts/Brinsop/2XAw8qcV">Brinsop</a>, Herefordshire, and had one son, <a href="/facts/John_Talbot,_10th_Earl_of_Shrewsbury/c3QQboUE">John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury</a></li></ul>

Attribution
<ul><li> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/facts/Public_domain/YWKMDKw4">public domain</a>: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "John Talbot". <a href="/facts/Catholic_Encyclopedia/GKufVzBf">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
<ul><li>Calendars of State Papers, Domestic, for 1581 to 1610;</li>
<li>Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council (London, 1890–1907);</li>
<li><a href="/facts/John_Strype/762LeazY">John Strype</a>, Life and Acts of John Whitgift, I (Oxford, 1822), 529;</li>
<li>____, Annals of the Reform in England, IV (Oxford, 1824), 276;</li>
<li>Hist. MSS. Commission, Cal. of Cecil MSS., IV, 268;</li>
<li>Cokayne, Complete Peerage (London, 1887–1898)</li></ul></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">"TALBOT, John (1545-611), of Grafton, Worcs". The History of Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013. <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/talbot-john-1545-611" target="_blank">http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/talbot-john-1545-611</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Rec. of Hon. Soc. of Lincoln's Inn, Admissions, I (London, 1896), 62. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Treadway Russell Nash, History and Antiquities of the County of Worcester I (1782), introduction, xxxii. <a href="/wiki/Treadway_Russell_Nash" target="_blank">/wiki/Treadway_Russell_Nash</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Talbot". www.newadvent.org. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2015. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14432b.htm" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14432b.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Talbot". www.newadvent.org. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2015. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14432b.htm" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14432b.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Talbot". www.newadvent.org. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2015. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14432b.htm" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14432b.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">"TALBOT, John (1545-611), of Grafton, Worcs". The History of Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013. <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/talbot-john-1545-611" target="_blank">http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/talbot-john-1545-611</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Collins, Arthur and Brydges, Egerton. Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, Vol.3, F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son, 1812 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sIkUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=sIkUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">"TALBOT, John (1545-611), of Grafton, Worcs". The History of Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013. <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/talbot-john-1545-611" target="_blank">http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/talbot-john-1545-611</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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