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John Talbot's parentage and place of birth have not been hitherto ascertained, but it seems probable that he was a graduate of the University of Cambridge, as there are, in Graduati Cantabrigienses (edit. 1823, pp. 458-9), several of the name about the period when he may have been a student there: "Talbot, Joh., A.M. per Literas Regias, 1671"; "Talbott, Joh., Clar." (Aula Clarensis, or Clare Hall), A.B. 1676, A.M. 1680." Either of these may refer to him, probably the latter, as his name is not found in the list of Oxford graduates or of Trinity College, Dublin. Having entered into holy orders he became, towards the close of the seventeenth century, incumbent of a parish in Gloucestershire (the name of which I have not discovered), which, however, was given away to another clergyman about 1706, during his absence in America, and apparently on account of his non-residence; but, in his allusion to that fact, he betrays no regret that he should be debarred from resuming his home duties in the Church, or any wish that another arrangement might have been made. Mr. Talbot first proceeded to America as chaplain of H.M.S. Centurion, embarking for Boston, June 24, 1702, along with the governors of New England and New Jersey (Messrs. Dudley and Morris), and also the Rev. Messrs. George Keith, of Aberdeen, and Patrick Gordon, the first travelling missionaries of the Society for the Propagation There is so little known concerning the career of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Landing at Boston of most of the Non-juring bishops of the last cen- June 11 following, the chaplain of the Centurion tury that the following notice of one of them, given manifested such a deep and lively interest in the in Church Bells for February last (vol. ix. No. 423, duties which were about to engage Messrs. Keith p. 100), deserves to be recorded in your pages :- and Gordon that both of them wrote home, re"The will has been discovered at Philadelphia of the questing that Talbot might be nominated in widow of John Talbot, first Bishop of America.' At conjunction with themselves. His appointment, on the beginning of the eighteenth century he was a missionary supported by the S.P.G., and founded St. Mary's Sept. 18 of the same year, evinced the readiness Church, Burlington, New Jersey. After eighteen years with which the S.P.G. complied with their request, of mission work, during which he had incessantly urged and the zeal with which Talbot forthwith gave that a bishop should be sent out from England, he went himself to the work proved most clearly the thither, and, despairing of an episcopate for the colonies wisdom of their selection. Gordon having died in any other way, was in 1722 himself consecrated by shortly afterwards, Keith and Talbot set out from two Non-juring bishops, Taylor and Welton. On returning to America he assumed no title, but exercised the Boston upon their mission through New England, functions of his office secretly upon those who desired. and thence proceeded to New York, the Jerseys, After more than two years the Government interfered, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryand he was inhibited. Talbot died at Burlington in 1727. land, Virginia, and North Carolina, a territory His widow died four years after, leaving a will sealed embracing the ten district governments which with his episcopal signet. A memorial brass, being a fac-simile of this seal on a large scale, is now being England had at that time in America, and extenderected, with a suitable inscription, in the old church of ing in length about eight hundred miles. They St. Mary, Burlington, where Talbot served for nearly were engaged in this work nearly two years, twice a quarter of a century." travelling through most of the above-named provinces, preaching, using the Liturgy, and administering the sacraments to large and friendly It would be interesting to have a description of the above-mentioned memorial brass, and perhaps some congregations, as well as persuading many Separatists to return to the communion of the Church of England. Keith returned home in the autumn of 1704, and was made rector of the parish of Edburton, in Sussex, and diocese of Chichester, where he died, at an advanced age, in March, 1716. Talbot remained behind in America, and continued to discharge, in conjunction with a Mr. Sharpe, the duties of travelling missionary with diligence and success till 1705, when the inhabitants of Burlington, the capital of West Jersey, petitioned the S.P.G. that he might be settled among them, and the Bishop of London (Compton) having sanctioned the measure as the ordinary, he took up his abode there. This church was called in the first charter St. Anne's, but afterwards, when an ampler charter was granted, its name was changed to St. Mary's, on account of the day on which the foundation stone was laid, March 25, 1703. The progress of his ministry here led him to feel the necessity of having a resident suffragan bishop in the colonies of North America, and he proceeded to England in person, to press on the English Government a memorial from the American clergy to that effect, which was presented to Queen Anne in 1709 by the S.P.G., and strenuously supported by Abp. Sharp of York and other bishops. All these efforts were unsuccessful, though the queen gave so favourable an answer to a second memorial in 1713 that only her death in 1714 frustrated the design. The society renewed its application to George I. in its memorial of June 2, 1715, proposing a bishopric at Burlington; but political influences opposed this too successfully. Talbot had returned to America in autumn, 1707, landing at Marblehead in Massachusetts, after which he visited numerous stations, till spring, 1708, when he was again back with his own people. From that period till 1716 he was engaged in building various churches in the adjacent provinces, in spite of frequent sickness; but by May, 1718, his repeated disappointments in obtaining a colonial bishop, and the long-continued toils endured, at length produced their effect. Worn out with fatigue, he obtained permission to return home, having asked for it several years previously, but either did not then receive it from the society or, which is more probable, did not avail himself of it until the year 1719-20, when he revisited England, living for a short time on the interest of Abp. Tenison's legacy of 1,000l., bequeathed to the S.P.G. in Dec., 1715, "towards the settlement of two bishops, one for the continent and the other for the isles of America," which was held by the society for the relief of its retired missionaries, until it could be applied to the objects designed. also an apparent sympathy for Jacobitism (of which, indeed, he had been accused in 1715 by Governor Hunter of New Jersey, though then emphatically denied by him), prevailed upon him to apply for consecration to a separated branch of the Non-juring prelates in England. Along with Rev. Richard Welton, D.D. (Cantab. 1708), the rector of Whitechapel from 1697 to 1710 (at which date he was removed by the Government, and became pastor of a Non-juring congregation in London), Talbot was consecrated a bishop, apparently in the year 1722 (though neither date nor place is exactly known), by Right Rev. Ralph Tayler, D.D. (Oxon. 1686),* who performed the ceremony alone, without any assistants, and in spite of the disapproval of the rest of the Non-juring prelates, who consequently refused to recognize their episcopal character, as having been "irregular" and "clandestine." Dr. Tayler had been consecrated in the oratory of Rev. Richard Rawlinson, D.C.L., at Gray's Inn, London, on the Feast of Conversion of St. Paul, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1720/1, by Bishops Hawes, Spinckes, and Gandy (the Anti-Usagist section of the Nonjurors), as recorded in the Rawlinson MSS. (Bodleian Library, Oxford). The same authority thus refers to the consecration of Welton and Talbot: "Ric. Welton, D.D., was consecrated by Dr. Taylor alone, in a clandestine manner. Talbot, M.A., was consecrated by the same person, at the same time, and as irregularly." As Dr. Rawlinson previously notes the consecration of Bishop John Griffin in Nov. 25, 1722, and then “Mr. Thomas Brett consecrated," without any date, while Dr. Tayler died Dec. 26, 1722, at an advanced age, it may be reasonably inferred that Bishop Talbot's consecration took place some time in Dec., 1722. Though their consecration was certainly "irregular," still it cannot be considered invalid, if it was properly performed, which there is no sufficient reason to doubt under the circumstances, consecrations by a single bishop, without assistants, having frequently occurred in the history of the Church, and, although not strictly canonical, these have never been repeated, even conditionally, so far as my researches in ecclesiastical history extend; both Welton and Talbot must, therefore, be considered as true bishops of the Anglican Church. In 1723 the new prelates proceeded to America, Welton accompanying Talbot, and proceeding to Philadelphia, whilst the latter remained in New Jersey, from which place authentic reports soon came home to the society of acts done by him which, however consistent with the creed of the Non-jurors, could not, of course, be permitted to its missionaries. His refusal to pray in public for the person and family of George I., and to take the oaths of obedience and allegiance, were the offences His continued failures to obtain from the authorities at home the desired episcopal superintendence, which he had so ardently applied for as a support to the Church of England in the colonies, and leur. Bishop Tayler's name is also given Taylor and Tay |