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| | Mac Barwick's History: Chapter VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Like the Sleuth-hound, the Talbot has been regarded as an ancestor of the Bloodhound. It appears as the name of some English pubs, and is depicted on the signs as a large white hound with long ears, sometimes with spots. |
 | | 'Talbot' was, in Medieval times a common name for a hound, a sort of 'Fido' of its day. In a quotation from about 1449, the king referred to John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury as 'Talbott, oure good dogge', perhaps as a play on his name, or in allusion to the family badge. |
 | | It is quite a plausible idea that from this starting point the name 'Talbot' was extended to any large heavy white scent hound, and from there helped to establish a breed or type. |
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