. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Talbot. Argent three lions salient purpure. younger brothers and seven neighbours, in 1447, in raiding the live stock of Richard de Hoghton at Little Pendleton.^^ After the place of concealment of Henry VI at Waddington in July 1465 had been divulged by William Cantelowe, an Abingdon monk, John Talbot, as a con- nexion of the king's protector, Sir John Tempest of Brace- well, kt., made a virtue of necessity and obtained as a reward for surrendering the king an annuity of 20 marks and the conversion of the socage rent of 37/.
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. Talbot. Argent three lions salient purpure. younger brothers and seven neighbours, in 1447, in raiding the live stock of Richard de Hoghton at Little Pendleton.^^ After the place of concealment of Henry VI at Waddington in July 1465 had been divulged by William Cantelowe, an Abingdon monk, John Talbot, as a con- nexion of the king's protector, Sir John Tempest of Brace- well, kt., made a virtue of necessity and obtained as a reward for surrendering the king an annuity of 20 marks and the conversion of the socage rent of 37/. jd. yearly for this manor into a render of a white rose at Midsummer. 3^ John Talbot was knighted in Scotland in July 1482, succeeded his father in or before 1484, and died in 1511.'* His son, known as'long John Talbot,' passed his estates to trustees in 1514, to make a sufficient estate to his wife Isabel daughter of Richard Towneley of Towneley, kt., of the manor of Dinckley, and to make provision for his younger sons, and died 17 August 15 I 5. John his son, aged fourteen at his father's death, is described by Benalt in the heraldic visitation of 1533 as ' a verrey gentle esquir and worthy to be taken payne for.' '^ John Talbot, third in descent from the last-named, succeeded his grandfather at the age of seven years in 1589. He was knighted by James I in 1617 at Lathom House'^ and in 1642 was appointed one of the collectors in this hundred of the subsidy granted 17 Charles I for the payment of forces and provision of ammunition for the safeguard of the county. In January 1643 he was suspected of attempting to entice to Salesbury some of the chief Parliamentarians of the neighbourhood of Manchester with a view to effect their capture. The plot was discovered and a force of 300 men a few days later attacked Sir John's horse stationed at Salesbury, slew some of them, drove others into the Ribble, where they were drowned, captured others and pillaged the hall. A month later his
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