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neglect or supineness on the part of the assignees
could be shown.
The Commissioner—l will accede to an adjourn-
ment if desired. A bank which conducts its affairs
in this loose way and has such irregular transac-
tions is not entitled to complain of any extent of
inconvenience.
Mr. Bagley—My clients hive incurred cost-
enough already. They decline to incur the chance
of being subjected to further costs when they can
derive so little benefit from the estate.
Mr. Lawrance—lt shall not he said that the
assignees have not done their duty. I will un-
dertake to institute further inquiry at the expense
of the estate.

An adjournment was ordered accordingly.

TEE GREAT SHREWSBURY PEERAGE

CASE JUDGMENT.

The House of Lords sat yesterday by special ap-
pointment a 4 a committee for privileges for the
purpose of giving judgment on the claim of the
Right Hon. Earl Talbot to the Earldom of Shrews-
bury, which, involving as it does the, poss• ssion of
vast estates, has obtainw•d for this long litigated
case a vast amount of Interest, particularly amongst
the aristocracy, a number of whom were awaiting
their lordships' decision. The china has been
throughout strenuou-ly opposed by Lord Edwari
Howard, the second son of the Duke of Norfolk,
and by the Princess Doria Toughen, and the
Duchess of Sora, claiming as heiresses-at-law of
the 16th Eirl.

The case for the claimant, Earl Talbot, was that
the title of Earl of Shrewsbury was created in 1442,
and conferred by Henry VI. on Sir John Talbot
and the heirs male of his body, as a reward for his
AiStineuished services as a Ilader of Tatt..arinies.of
Eneland in France. The- title deeceieled- in direct
succession to John, the 3d Earle_evlieu the family
he. erne divided into three branches: Thefiret branch
was that from Vim, -3d Earl, who had an only bro-
ther, Sir Gilbert of Greft on, and the t tle descended
from father to sen, to Giibett, 7te Earl, whe,
dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother
Edward, the Bth e trl, at whose death this branch
became extinct, and the title devolved on the de-
sctendatits of ST Gilbert, of Grafton, brother of
John, 3d earl. Sir Gilbert had two sone The first,
also Sir Gilbert, died without issue ; the second,
Sir John, of Allbrighton, was tevics married. By
his flist wife he h-d one sou, Sir John, of Grafton,
whose grandson George succeeded to the title as
9th earl, on the extinction of the first branch. lie
died without issue, and the earldom passed to John,
the 10th Earl, his nephew, who was twice married,
and had by his first wife issue three s els—George,
who died without issue during his father's lifetime ;
Francis, 11th Earl ; and Gilbert, of Balchcoate.
Francis, thellth earl, had two sons—Charles, 12.11
earl, who was afterwards created Dul;e of Shrews-
bury, but at whose death without issue the duke-
dom became extinct, and John, who also died
without issue. Gilbert, the eldest son of Gilbert of
Balchcoate, became 13th E irl o!-. Shrewsbury, and
died without issue. He had two brothers, Thomas,
who died without issue, awl Georg e whrase old- st
son George succeeded as 14th earl. This line so
passed on until it become extinct on the death, in
1856, of Bertram Arthur the 17th and late earl,
who left no issue. The issue of Sir John, of Al-
brighton, by his first marriage having thus become
extinct, the third branch commenced in the person
of Sir" John of Salwarp, second sou of Sir John of
Albtighton, by Elizabeth Wrottesley his second
wife, Gilbert, the eldest son by his marriage, hav-
ing died without issue ; John of Salwarp married
Oiive, daughter of Sir ienry Sherington, by whom
he had issue one son, Sheriogton of Rudge, who
was twice married. By his first marriage he had six
sons, all of whom except the eldest; Sheriegton died
without issue. Ties Sheriegton had also six sons,
all of wbbm, with the exception of Sir John of Lay-
cock, died without issue. SirJolin Laycock mar-
ried twice, and had issue by his first wife, Shering-
ton, whose issue became extinct; and by his second
wife, John and Thomas, who, dying also without
issue, the third breech descendirig from Sherington
of Rudge, by his first matriege' bee ine extinct.
The fourth branch commenced with William of
Whillington, the son of Sherington of itudee, by
his second marriage, and the only son who hart '
issue. William of Millington had one son Wil-
liam, who became Bishop of Salisbury, trml whose
son Charles was subsequently Lord Chance lor. Of
this Charles, the claimant was the neatest male
heir.

Lord Cranwortb, in delivering judgment, ad-
verted at considerable length to the evidence al-
duced by the claimant in the last and present ses-
sion. With regard to the descent of Earl Talbot
through the Bishop of Salisbury,he said icappehred
to him that the B shop was the son of William of
Whillington, though it had been sliege4ted by the
opponents lie had been illegitimate. Then if
William of Whiilington was the son of Sberitigtou
of Rudge, the claimant had shown his descent fi oat
John, the second E Irl. The great point was
whether they. were any male descendants b twe,n
the late earl and the present claimant, through Sir
John of Albrighton. The late earl claimed order
the first marriage, and the claimant through the
second marriage. He thought there was n )t, and
the Bishop, if alive, would he the nearest heir male
of Sharington of Rudge. Having' adverted to the
settlement made by the Duke of Shrewsbu-y, so as
to keep the estates—which could not have been
held by Gilbert, a priest and a Jesuit, under the
Popery laws, though he, as next heir, would have
the title—for the Bishop of Salisbury, on failure of
heirs male to tha Roman Catholic branch, he said
this was an acknowledgment of the rights of the
bishop, by persons most competent to form an
opinion on them, that the b shop was the ryxt
male descendant of Sir John of Albrighton by his
second marriage. Earl Talbot lad satisfactorily
made out his descent from the bishop, who wat the
heir male cf Sir John of Albiighton, and BO he was
heir male of the first Earl of Shrewsbury. For
these reasons he would move their lordships to re-
port to the house that the claimant, Earl Talbot,
bad made out his claim.

Lord St. Leanards, Lord Wensleydak, and Lord
Brougham having fully concurred in the observa-
tions of the noble lord,
Lard Redesdale, the-chairman of the committee,
put the question that they should report that the
claimant had established h's claim, which was
agreed to, and thus Earl Talbot has established his
title to the Premier Earldom of England.