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London, England, 1822-10-17 00:00:00

DUKt OF. YORK.

[Lords' Peerage Report, 1822.1 till
VOR/C was not used as a name of dignitY
EDWARD the Third created his son EnwAlt°
Duke of YORD by patent ; but it may have be ,1"'
included in the general name of Northumbe'
land. The persons who have been supposed t°.
have been successively Earls of Northumberiaea
after the imprisonment of Morcar, before Richard
the Second created Henry Percy Earl of Nar"
thumberland, were Copsi, Robert CornYll,,C°:
patric, Waltheof, Walther Bishop of Durnaua
Alberic, Geoffrey Bishop of Constance,, arts
Robert Mowbray, who have been all called Dar,.
of Northumberland ; but it seems at least dab'
ful whether they were not rather persons
pointed to the government of that part of t°'•
country which was north of the Tyne, marls
in a very disturbed state, than properly E'aris.„°
Northumberland, if that appellation is to be cc':
sidered as a name of dignity. Yorkshire see lt,
to have been included in Morcar's Earldom, Or.
not in the government of Copsi, or any otheis
of the persons supposed to have been Ean?
of Northumberland after him. Earl Allan
Britanny, who had a grant of a large portion of thet
property of Earl Edwin in Yorkshire, caal.!.°o
be supposed to have derived from that gram' a
right to the dignity of Earl of Mercia, possess
by Edwin. The designation of Earl of Britoil;
or rather " Comes Britannim," assumed by A%
ern relY
and his successors, seems to have been
designation of rank, belonging to them as mei:
berg of the family of the sovereign Earls of Or „
tanny, and the designation of " Comes Angl,ifiv;
which the successors of Alan assumed, may "h",ci,
meant no more than the person so destriTh
had the rank of Earl in England. The Ear f
of Albemarle, and others, who had the dignitle°,l
Count in Normandy, seem to have been esteeTol‘
Earls in England, because they had a siroilar‘rT-or.
in Normandy. The other Earls, who weiT,''d in
mans, or foreigners, and had the title of ri,a,„ot
England, but had not the title of Comes or I,7si,
abroad, appear to have been spoken of ill "ne,
tory as made by the King; and it has beengde
rally asserted that Earls were always created the
the Crown. The" Girding with a Sword,"oll"f $
" Grant of the Third Penny" of the Pleas °neer
county by patent, seem to have been the roar i$
in which persons were usually made Ballop.
England, for a considerable time after the
of $
quest, probably in imitation of the creati°ll„ the
Saxon Earl, who seems to have been proper'/5 of
governor of a county or shire, and sometialeof,
a larger district, such as ,Mercia, comprising 1111 of
counties. But Alan of Britanny and the 91,rhird
Albemarle do not appear to have had Ott', of
penny of any county, or to have had the t'l-14
Earl in connexion with the government of d for
county. There seems therefore no ground $Ol,
1
supposing that they were created Earls 0 0 of
county. If a grant was really made to sa ac'
all Earl Edwin's property in Yorkshire'ore.
cording to the terms of the Charter nte.
sented in the painting affixed to the
.„,,s st
gistrum Honoris de Richmond," which seem hat
least very doubtful, those terms do not WV% ter'
the Charter conveyed to him any dignitY or 'Plod
ritory denominated an honour. What was after 001,
called the Honour of Britanny, or of Richof
consisted of the whole property of the feral dyitiS
Britanny in England ; and when the honouoof,
granted to persons not of the family of 13ritafor10
though granted by the description of °leg that
dom or Comitatus of Richmond, it aPPearied
is
the dignity of Earl was expressly grando did
terms importing that the grant of the Me waft
not make the grantee an Earl. On the celkiogl
John of Gaunt was first made, by the honour
Charter, Earl of Richmond, and then the rt the
of Richmond was granted to him to suPPewas 0
dignity. 'When John de Britannia, who, of the
the family, but not the heir, had a grant. ;off
Earldom of Richmond, he also was snd the
made Earl by the terms of the Charter ; and
SOP
several grants of the Earldom of Richw°s;tea9
of the dignity of Earl of Richmond, before
grant of the
tend to confirm the opinion that the gran
..;
the
nour of Richmond, did not of itself nolp
dignity of Earl on the grantee.
territorial property, called the Earldom er

PROFESSIONAL LIBERALITY. 6;° FenllZfin6
whose death recently took place, was s°4-.- "to be
so hopelessly afflicted with tic doloureux,a" eve'
compelled to relinquish a very lucrative Inv A'
It is credibly reported, to the honour °sent,:
Cooper, that he sent the Doctor, as 3 at
cheque for 10001. ; and it is added, thatfor tbe
immediately remitted Sir Astley a brind 911
amount, which Sir Astley most geaero°,oolo%
stroyed. Such actions are worthy of the
men of the profession.

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BIRTHS. ' 'l,4'ol4llire'
the
On Wednesday last, at "pinto House/ ..Atc, • 4 P
Countess of I%linto, of a son. CAPtI/In
.' ht Mrs' Oa'
At Albany Barracks, Isle of IT ig f .
j°llll
Lachlan, 75th regiment, of a son. tady.l4
At Versailles, on the 30th ultimo, the
lows, Esq. Royal Navy, of a daughter. .

be&
MARRIED. ev---A.
r the 11- Or,
On the 11th inst., at Larkbear, near 80% goirirropt
Kenrick, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Chanrionmoo t ilis•
At Grangemouth, on the 7th inst., J°llll I) of the to
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surgeon, R.N., to Margaret, second daughter
_............„/'
Adam Brooks, merchant, Edinburgh.

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