with limitation of those titles to the heirs males of his body, lawfully begotten.

His Grace is also one of the Knights of the most ancient order of the Thistle, being invested therein on January 11th, 1775;o Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland; Lord Lieuteuant of Aberdeenshire; and hereditary Keeper of Inverness Castle.

His Grace was married, in October 1767, to Jane, daughter of Sir William Maxwell, Bart. by whom he has issue one surviving

son,

George, Marquis of Huntley, born February 2d, 1770; summoned to the House of Lords, April 11th, 1807, as Baron GORDON, of Huntley, in Gloucestershire, a Major-general in the army, and Colonel of the 42d Regiment of foot.

Charlotte, married, September 1789, Lieutenant-general Lennox, now Duke of Richmond, by whom she has issue.

Madelina, married, first, April 3d, 1789, Sir Robert Sinclair, Bart. and had issue; and, secondly, November 25th, 1805, Charles Palmer, Esq. of Luckley Park, in Berkshire.

Susan, married, November 8th, 1793, William, Duke of Manchester, and has issue.

Louisa, married, April 17th, 1797, Charles, Marquis Cornwallis, and has issue.

Georgiana, married, June 23d, 1803, John, Duke of Bedford. Alexander, born November 8th, 1785, a Captain in the 59th regiment of foot, died January 8th, 1808.

Titles. Alexander Gordon, Earl of Norwich, and Baron Gordon of Huntley, English honours: also, Duke of Gordon, Marquis and Earl of Huntley, Earl of Enzie, Viscount Inverness, Lord of Badenoch, Lochaber, Strathaven, Achindoun, Balmore, Gartley, and Kincardine, in the kingdom of Scotland, and Knight of the most ancient order of the Thistle.

Creations. Lord Gordon, July 10th, 1376; Earl of Huntley, 1449; Marquis of Huntley, April 17th, 1599; and Duke of Gordon, November 1st, 1684; Scotch honours: also Baron Gordon of Huntley, in Gloucestershire, and Earl of Norwich, in Norfolk, July 2d, 1784, 24 George III.

Arms. Quarterly, first Azure, three boars heads erased, Or, for Gordon; second Or, three lions heads erased, gules, for Badenoch; third Or, three crescents within a double tressure flory,

• From the Register of the Order.

counter flory, gules, for Seton; fourth Azure, three cinquefoils, Argent, for Fraser.

Crest. In a marquis's coronet, a stag's head affronte proper. Supporters. Two greyhounds, Argent, collared Gules, and thereon three round buckles, Or.

Motto. ANIMO NON ASTUTIA.

Chief Seats. At Strathbogie, in Aberdeenshire; and at Castle Gordon, in Bamfshire.

THIS noble branch of the ancient and illustrious house of Talbot, is lineally descended from Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Grafton, in Worcestershire, third son of John, second Earl of Shrewsbury, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter to James Butler, Earl of Ormond.

The said Sir GILBERT TALBOT, of Grafton, who was Knight Banneret, Knight of the Garter, and one of the most renowned statesmen and warriors of his time, departed this life on September 19th, 1516, and was buried at Whitchurch, in Shropshire; having married two wives: 1. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Lord Scrope, of Bolton: and, 2. Ethelreda (or Audrey), daughter of Sir John Cotton, of Landwade, in the county of Cambridge, Knt. (ancestor of Sir Charles Cotton, of Landwade and Madingley), and successively the widow of Thomas Barton, Esq. and Sir Richard Gardiner, Lord Mayor of London. By the first wife, he had two sons; Sir Gilbert, his heir, and Sir Humphrey, who died without issue; also two daughters, Catharine, and Ann.

The said Sir GILBERT, his heir, Sheriff of Worcester, in 31 Hen. VIII. died on October 22d, 1542, having been also twice married; 1. To Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir William Paston, of Paston, in Norfolk (by Anne his wife, third sister and coheir of Edmund Beaufort, fourth and last Duke of Somerset, from whose elder brother, Henry, third Duke of Somerset, the present Duke of Beaufort is descended); and, secondly, to Elizabeth, widow of Wynter. By the last wife he had no children; but by the first he was father of two sons, Humphrey and Walter, who both died without issue; and also of three daughters, coheirs. 1. Margaret, wedded to Sir Robert Newport, of Rushock, in Worcestershire. 2. Elizabeth, married to Sir John Lyttelton, of

Frankley, ancestor to the present Lord Lyttelton. And, 3. Mary, wedded to Sir Thomas Astley, of Pateshull, in Staffordshire, from whom the late Sir John Astley, Bart. one of the Knights in parliament for the county of Salop, was lineally descended.

Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Grafton, who died on September 19th, 1516, by his second wife, Ethelreda Cotton, aforesaid, was father of an only son, Sir John Talbot, of Albrighton, in Shropshire, to whom Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, was godfather.

The said Sir JOHN TALBOT was Sheriff of the county of Salop in the 19th, 29th, and 33d of Henry VIII. and departed this life on September 10th, 1549; being then possessed of Grafton, and the other family estates in the county of Worcester, on the failure of the heirs male of Sir Gilbert, his brother by the first marriage.

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He had two wives; first, Margaret, daughter and heir of Adam Troutbeck, of Mobberley, in Cheshire, Esq. and heir to her uncle, Sir William Troutbeck; and, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, in Staffordshire, Esq.

Sir John, by his first wife, had Sir John Talbot, of Grafton, his heir, of whom the present Earl of Shrewsbury is descended, as is fully narrated in his Lordship's pedigree, in the third volume of this work.

By his second wife (who afterwards wedded William, second son of Sir John Lyttelton, of Frankley, aforesaid), he was father of John Talbot, Esq. who had the seat and estate of Salwarp, in Worcestershire.

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This JOHN TALBOT, of Salwarp, Esq. married Oliva, daughter and heir of Sir William Sherington, of Lacock (or Laycock), in Wilts, descended from an ancient family in Lancashire; and, dying in 1572, left by her three sons; viz. 1. Sherington Talbot, his heir. 2. John. And, 3. Thomas.

John Talbot, the second son, was of Badgworth, in Gloucestershire, and marrying Mary, daughter and heir of Thomas Trimnel, of Okeley, in Worcestershire, by her was father of John Talbot, of Okeley, who wedded Margaret, daughter of Thomas Gower, of Droitwich, in the said county, and had issue.

Thomas Talbot, third son, was of Worwill, in com. Salop, and espousing Magdalene, daughter of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, of Constable-Burton, in Yorkshire, Knt. and Bart. by her had issue Robert Talbot, of Worvill, who had to wife Anne, daughter of

a Fuller's Worthies, p. 159.

William Sheldon, of Broadway, in com. Wigorn, by whom he was father of three sons; Thomas Talbot, of Worwill; Gilbert, and George.

SHERRINGTON TALBOT, the eldest son, before-mentioned, succeeded his father in Salwarp and Lacock, and died about the year 1640.

This Sherington Talbot, Esq. had two wives; first, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Leighton, the elder, by Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, K. G.b of Feckingham, in Worcestershire, Knt.; and, secondly, Mary, daughter of John Washborn, of Wichenford, in the county of Worcester.

By the first of those wives he had six sons, from whom there is no surviving male issue. Sir Gilbert Talbot, one of the youngest of the said six sons, was of Christ Church College, and elected Fellow of All Souls, in the University of Oxford, A. D. 1629. He was sent Agent to Venice, about the year 1638; and afterwards suffered very much for his adherence to the royal cause. He was one of the first Fellows, also one of the Council of the Royal Society, and Master of the Jewel-office to King Charles II. but left no issue. Sherington, the eldest of the six sons, married, June 5th, daughter of John Lyttelton, of Frankley, in Worcestershire, Esq. and had only one son, Sir John Talbot, of Lacock, who died in February, 1714, and was buried at Laycock: he had by his wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir John Keyt, of Ebrington, in Worcestershire, Bart. a son, Sherington, who was baptized on May 30th, 1756, but died an infant (of whom his mother died in childbed, and was buried at Stow, in Gloucestershire); and three daughters.

The three daughters of Sir John Talbot, of Lacock, knighted by King Charles II. were, 1. Anne, who was wedded to Sir John Ivory, and by him, besides other children, had John Ivory Talbot, of Lacock, who was, in 1714, elected member for Luggershall, in Wiltshire, in the first parliament called by George I. and Knight of the shire for that county in the two first summoned by George II. and by Mary his wife, youngest daughter of Thomas, the first Lord Mansel, and sister to Bussy, the third and last Lord Mansel, was father of John Talbot, who served for

See Gent. Mag. December, 1799, p. 1013. See St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, Vol. VI.

Sir John St. John, married the other daughter of Sir Thomas Leighton, senior, who was brother of Sir Edward Leighton, of Walteboro'. See Baronetage,

IV. p. 42.