New-York tribune., 1907-12-11

Henry and Henry VI He eerre. largely in
Snakespeares dramas of those reigps and is de-
oiioeu os iiiih as that great Alcdes of the field"
he was the prisoner for time of the Maid Of Or
leans, and subsequently PLAYED a leading mart in
Cohsishlns her to the flames at Rouen, a fact
winch Is sun remembered such an extent by
rfehchlnen OF the aristocracy that both the pres
ent Lord Shrewsbury and his kinsman General Sir
Reginald Talbot. have been bIackbaT1.d at some
OF the clubs at Paris affected by the old aristoc-
i0os' iSr 10 other reason than that they bore the
names and were understood to be the descendants
OF the Sir John Talbot Lord Shrewsbury who
burned the Maid of Orleans
The sixth Earl Of Shrewsbury wa. tho taller of
mary queen OF Scots and presided at her trial
anu e~eC"uon- @'he may be said TO have been re-
Neheeo ny his wife, the famous "Bess of Hard
"lcke, who ayowedly devoted her existence to
making his life unbearahle. The eleventh Earl of
shrewsbury was killed in a duel at Cliveden-on-
the-1hames, now owned by William Waldorf As
tor. his adversary was George Villiers, second
Duke OF Buckingham the lover OF his wife. She
was present at the encounter. in the guise of
page. holding the dukes horse and is condemned
to eternal infamy in Popes lines, beginning:
Cliveden's proud alcove
The bower of Wanton Shrewsbury and love.
The seventeenth Earl of Shrewsbury, a Roman
Catholic. died firmly convinced that he was the
last remaining descendant of the first earl and
consequently beQucathed everything 10 his kns-
man, Lord Edmund Howard. stpulating that he
should assume the name and the of Talbot.
a Protestant who. after a famous lawsuit,
ceeded in proving 10 the satisfaction of the Com
mittec OF Privileges of the House Of Lords his
descent from younger of the second Earl of
Shrewsbury. and thereupon summoned to the
House of Lords eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury.
and invested with the ownership OF all the entaied
estates. the personal property. however remaining
with Lord Edmund Talbot who stands next in the
line of succession to his brothers dukedom of Nor
folk. The present Lord Shrewsbury is the twenti-
eth earl of his line
Ingestre Hall. where the King has been stay
ing originally belonged to the Chetwynds, and
passed from them into the possession of the Talbots
through the marriage Of john Talbot father of the
third Lord Talbot. the daughter and heress Of
John. second Viscount Chetwynd. in 17zS Previous
to the Chetwynds il had been owned by the de
Muttons. The park which is bor6ered by The
Trent. is very extensive. The gardens comprise
twenty acres. and the house, which was
burned down forty years ego has been re-
built in Jacobean style. and with its dome. tur-
and ornamental bays is a very picturesque
building.
The ancestral home, however. of the Lords OF
Shrewsbury is Alton Towers. also in Stafordshire
1t has been the home of the TalbotS ever since me
first Earl of Shrewsbury. the foe of the Maid OF
Orleans, married Maude, the daughter and Co
heir of Thomas Neville. Lord FurnivaL in whose
family il had been since the Conquest, and all the
twenty Earis of Shrewsbury since the reign OF
Henry V have made their principal home there
save the present peer. who ahandons il for several
months in the year TO his wife The castle stands
high upon a spur of the Weaver Hills, overlooking
the vale the rivers Dove and Churnet. and oc-
cupies the site and upon the foundations Of
an ancient fortress, dating from old Saxon times
erected by the King of Mercia in Il6 The grounds
are very beautiful and represent a tour de force,
as the hill which the castle is perched was
very wild and bleak. and the very soil had
to be conveyed from distance The gardens owe
their existence the sixteenth earl, who was eX-
trsrnely homely in spite of which he insisted on
adoruing the grounds with his statue. inscribed
with the words, Il made the desert smile
an inscription which naturally leads to the re-
mark that the desert could but help laugh
at his conical uginess. Alton Towers is inn
rnense affair very picturesque, nd rebuilt TO
a great extent about eighty years by the six
reenth earl. whose daughters married respec-
tively Prince Deria Pamphili and Prince Borghese
of Rome. MARQUiSE DE foN16NOf.