Her father told
her that since she had made such a leap she should e'en marrie him.
She was my honoured friend Col. Sharington Talbot's grandmother, and
died at her house at Lacock about 1651, being about an hundred yeares
old. Quaere, Sir Jo. Talbot?
[This romantic story seems to have escaped the attention of the
venerable historian of Lacock, the Rev. Canon Bowles. The late John
Carter mentions a tradition of which he was informed on visiting
Lacock in 1801, to the effect that "one of the nuns jumped from a
gallery on the top of a turret there into the arms of her lover." He
observes, as impugning the truth of the story, that the gallery
"appears to have been the work of James or Charles the First's time."
Aubrey's anecdote has an appearance of authenticity. Its heroine,
Olave, or Olivia Sherington, married John Talbot, Esq. of Salwarpe, in
the county of Worcester, fourth in descent from John, second Earl of
Shrews- bury. She inherited the Lacock estate from her father, and it
has ever since^ remained the property of that branch of the Talbot
family, now represented by the scientific Henry Fox Talbot, Esq.
-J. B.]
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The last Lady Prioresse of Priorie St Marie, juxta Kington St.
Michael, was the Lady Mary Dennys, a daughter of the Dennys's of
Pocklechurch in Gloucestershire; she lived a great while after the
dissolution of the abbeys, and died in Somersetshire about the middle
or latter end of the raigne of King James the first
The last Lady Abbese of Amesbury was a Kirton, who after the
dissolution married to.
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