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492 CALTHORPE Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 2,073 acres inWarwick- shire valued at no less than l, 13,707 a year ; 2,559 ^" Norfolk ; 1,390 in Hants; 235 in Suffolk; 197 in Staffordshire and 16 in Worcestershire. Total 6,470 acres, valued at ;/^ 122,628 a year. In the above return, the owner being (as "Lord of the Manor of Edgbaston, the Belgravia of Birmingham") the "ground Landlord" of the Warwickshire property, is credited with the whole rental. There is however a large, thickly populated and most valuable, district near Clerkenwell, Midx., belonging to the family, which is not included. Principal Residences. — Elvetham Park, near Winch- field, Hants ; and Edgbaston Hall, near Birmingham. (^) CAMBELL see CAMPBELL CAMBRIDGE (county of) Observations. — The Earldom of this county(which from the earliest period had the same Sheriff as Hunts) appears to have been included in the Earl- dom of Huntingdon. From 11 15 to 1237 the Royal family of Scotland were in possession of the latter Earldom, though their right was occasion- ally not acknowledged by the English Crown. A charter of Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, concerning the nunnery of Haverholm, dated 1139, and known to us only by a recital on a Charter Roll of Edward III, is witnessed by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and William, Earl of Cambridge, his brother (fratre ejus). Nicolas, Stapleton, Doyle, and others, identify this Earl of Cambridge with William le Meschin, who married Cecily de Rumilly, the heiress of Skipton and Harewood. It seems clear, however, that this Earl of Cambridge was William de Roumare, afterwards known as Earl of Lincoln, the ,^rt^brother of the Earl of Chester. (See Lincoln, Earldom of, and Round's Feudal England, pp. 185-187). Anyhow, no other reference has been found to an Earl of Cambridge in the twelfth century. C') Between Jan. and June 1 142, the Earldom of Cambridge wa.s promised to Aubrey de Veer, if that Earldom was not held by the King of Scotland, in which case the said Aubrey was to have the choice of 4 other counties. In charters he was usually styled "Earl Aubrey" and in 11 55, "Earl of Oxford" indicating (apparently) that the Earldom of Cambridge was possessed as conjectured.('^) For further details see "Oxford," Earldom (^) For some remarks on this property as compared with that of holders of upwards of 100,000 acres, see vol. vi. Appendix H. (^) Ex infirm. Sir Henry C. Maxwell Lyte. V.G. ("=) The following remarks are in Courthope : "Prior to 1 155 the Empress Maud (says Selden, quoting an ancient book of Evidences in the possession of the Earls of Oxford) gave to Alberic de Vere the Earldom of Cambridge in these words : 'concedo quod sit Comes de Cantebruggescire et habeat inde tertium denarium sicut Comes debet habere. Ita dico, si Rex Scotias non habet ilium comitatum.'" G.E.C. The