On the Discovery of the Remains of John, First Earl of Shrewsbury, at Whitchurch

Although full accounts, which I will presently enumerate, appeared at the time as to the discovery of the great Talbot's bones beneath his well-known effigy at Whitchurch, I hope the subject may be deemed of sufficient interest, from the intimate connection of the Earl and his family with this immediate neighbourhood, to justify me in again bringing it forward, and particularly as there are one or two points not hitherto referred to, which appear to me to add importance to the curious evidences of identity of the remains already collected.Any lengthened details of the history and exploits of the great soldier, John Talbot, will not be expected from me, for, devoting as he did, the best part of his eighty years to the service of his country in the warlike periods of Henry the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, and embracing the whole career of Joan of Arc of France, his chivalrous deeds have been again and again recounted, and rendered specially immortal by Shakespeare himself.He was the second son of Richard Talbot, of Goodrich Castle, in this county, to whom, by the death of the elder brother, he became heir, and marrying the heiress of Lord Fumival had summons to Parliament in that dignity.He subsequently earned and received many other honours and the Earldom of Shrewsbury, and after a life of brilliant military achievements, died on the field of Chatillon, 20th

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