Thomas Talbot (
fl.
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1580) was an English antiquary.
Life
He was the second son of John Talbot (d. 1551) of
Salesbury
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,
Lancashire
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, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Richard Banaster of
Altham. Before 1580 he had become clerk of the records in the
Tower of London
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, and may be the ‘learned’ Mr. Talbot referred to by Dr.
John Dee
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divinatio ...
. He was an original member of the
Society of Antiquaries, and occurs in
Francis Tate
Francis Tate (1560–1616) was an English antiquary and politician, Member of Parliament for Northampton and Shrewsbury.
Life
Tate was born in 1560 at Gayton, the second son of Bartholomew Tate (d. 1601) of Delapre, Northamptonshire, by his wife ...
's list of members in 1590.
William Camden
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of ''Britannia'', the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the ''Annal ...
wrote: ‘Not to conceal my obligations to any, I must acknowledge myself under very great ones to Thomas Talbot, a diligent examiner of records and perfect master of our antiquities’.
Works
None of Talbot's collections are known to have been published. The major ones were left in manuscript in major libraries:
*collections relating to abbeys;
*extracts from chronicles and pedigrees (including that of his own family);
*a collection of historical and constitutional antiquities;
*a collection of abstracts from ‘Inquisitiones post mortem’ relating to Yorkshire families;
*an account of the proceedings of the court of claims at the coronations of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V;
*a ‘Catalogus Archicamerariorum Angliæ’;
*collections of pedigrees;
*‘Collectanea e Rotulis in Turri Lond. servatis’;
*notes from his genealogical collections are extant in Rawlinson MS. B. 103.
Other antiquarian collections, the authorship of which has not been determined, may be by Talbot (cf. Cat. Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 26717).
References
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English antiquarians
Place of birth missing
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown