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LINCOLN. 87 it fare Christmas 11 40,(*) at wUMi date he (and the Kail i.f Ubert«r( b ) bis br.of the half Wood] rebelled against the King. Ha m., about 1 J 2s, Hawise,(") stater of Baldwin, Eaul ok Devon, da. of Richard D* ItEUVEns. by Adcliza. da. of William Teverel, • if Nottingham. She joined with him (as did their son) in the foundation of the 10. Lincoln (William dt Roumare) 1186— 1140;; and again (Gilbert dc Gurtt) 1147-8. 1 1 . Norfolk (Hugh Bigod) before Feb. 1141. 18. *OxroRD (Aubrey rfe Ym) 1142. 1 3. Pkmbrokk (Gilbert dc Clare) 1 1 3S. U. "Salisbury or Wiltshire (Patrick of Salitbury) in or before 1141'. [Somerset, see DSVOSfJ [Sussex, see Arundel.] [Wiltshire, see .Salisbury.] [WORCESTER, '"A doubtful Earldom uf Worcestershire, bestowed on the Count of Meulan, need not lie considered here."] 15. YORK (William of Anmulc) 1138 [" William of Aumale, sometimes but rarely during the reign of Stephen styled himself Earl of York. He did not under Henry II, lose his Comital rank: Aumale (Albemarle) is notoriously a difficult title, as one of those of which the bearer enjoyed ("oinital rank, tho' whether as .1 Norman Count or an English Earl it is, at first, difficult to decide. Eventually, of course, the dignity became an English Karldom.'"] The whole of the Earldoms (23 in number] that existed at this early period (1135 — 1154) can be ascertained, if to the above (la) creations be added the (8) Earldoms in existence at the accession of King Stephen, It may be noted that at that date (I) the Earldom of Jiorlhumherlaml can hardly bo considered as existing as an independent English Earldom ; at all events any right to the same was held (together with the Earldom of Huntingdon) by the Royal family of Scotland during the first nine decads of the I2th century; and that ('_') the Earldom of Richmond was not, as yet, allowed to the Counts of ISritanny, tho' they were the holders of the (vast) honour of Richmond, The Earldoms in actual existence in 1135 were apparently eight, being, with the names of the families of their respective holders, as under. 1. Buckingham [(Hfihrd.) 2. Chester (dc demon.) 3. Gloucester (Fitiray.) 4. Huntingdon [the Roi/al house of Seutland.) f>. Leicester {dt Beaumont.) li. Northampton (St. Li:.) 7. Surrey ( Warennc.) 5. Warwick (dc FfetC&urgk.) (*) They are then spoken of by Ordericus as " The Earl of Chester and William de iioumare but immediately afterwards as " the tKO Earls." This illustrates (writes Mr. Round) the carelessness of the Chroniclers and how unsafe it is to trust any of them (more especially Ordericus) in such matters. ( b ) To tin's Earl of Chester (Randolph " dc demon," who d. Hi Dec. 1153), KiDg Stephen grauted the Castle and city of Lincoln, perhaps after the pacification of 1151, and he has been souietimws considered as having been Earl of Lincoln coujoiutly with his said brother. Thus, Mr. Courthopo (somewhat obscurely) speaks of Randolph's " share of the Earldom" of Lincoln, as follows ; "Altho' William de Honiara enjoyed the title of Earl of Lincoln and is so styled as late as 1153, it is not the less certain that Handle de Geruons [i.e., the Earl of Chester], who is said to have made over his share of the Earldom [of Lincoln] to his niece, RobfUS, continued to hold a large portion of the honours or rather the profits of the Earldom, and was in possession of them long after that event, probably thro' the deprivation of Gilbert de Gant, her husband." Rut, writes Mr. Hound, " there is no foundation for the statement that he is taid to have made over his share of the Enrtdom to his niece, which was an interpolation by Mr. Nichols, based on his own peculiar hypothesis of shares in the Earldom." (") See the various " Errors of Dugdale and the Genealogists " ns to this Lady, in the " Top. and den." Vol. i, p. 23, where her parentage is given as (in the text, viz.), " sister to Baldwin, 1st Earl of Devon, da. of Richard de Hedvers, Lord of Tiverton in Devon," &e., but see also (per contra) I'lauche's " Earls of Devon" Coll. Arch , vol. i 4to), refuting Mr. Staple-ton's arguments that Baldwiu (and not his father, Richard), was us first Earl of Devon.