Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet

William was the son of Robert Talbot of Carton, County Kildare, and his wife Genet FitzGerald.

Thomas Ryves, a close ally of the new Speaker, complained to the Westminster government that Talbot had abetted the return to Parliament of two schismatics.

On 30 May 1613 Talbot was appointed by the House as one of the deputies to represent to James I the corrupt practices employed in the elections to secure a Protestant majority, and the arbitrary treatment of the Anglo-Irish Catholics.

He crossed to England in July, and was examined by the Privy Council on his conduct in the Irish House of Commons.

During the discussion of this question, Archbishop George Abbot demanded Talbot's opinion on a book (probably the Defensio fidei Catholicae adversus Anglicanae sectae errores) in which (he said) Francisco Suárez openly maintained the right of Catholics to kill a heretical king.