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CALTHORPE — CAMBRIDGE. 119 Family Estates. These, in 1S83, consisted of 2,073 acres in Warwickshire valuer! at no less than £1 13,707 a year; 2,559 in Norfolk; 1,300 in Hants; 235 in Suffolk; 107 in Stafifordstire and 10 in Worcestershire. Total 0,-170 acies, valued at £122,023 a year. In the above return, the owner being (as " Lord of the Manor of Edgbaston, the lielgraviaof Birmingham") the "ground Landlord" of the Warwickshire property, is credited (in Bateman'a "Great Landowners") with the whole rental. There is however a large, thickly populated and most valuable, district near Clerkeuwell, Midx., belonging to the family, which is not included. Prineijw.1 Residences. — Elvetham Park, near Winchfield, Hants ; and Edgbaston Hall, near Birmingham. CAMBELL, sec CAMPBELL, CAMBRIDGE (county of). [The Earldom of this county (which from the earliest period hail the same Sheriff as Huntingdonshire) appears to have been included in the Earldom of Huntingdon. From 1115 to 1237 the Royal family of Scotland were in possession of the latter Earldom, tho' their right was occasionally not acknowledged by the English Crown. In a recital in a charter of (1337) 11 Ed. Ill, William Mesciiin, a yr. s. of Randolph, E.uu. ok Uhbstbii, is styled (temp. Stephen) EARL, UK CAMliRU >GE.(") Between 1111 ami 1155, the EARLDOM <>F CAMBRIDGE was promised to Al'luiKY DS VjOlB, if that Earldom was not held by the King of Scotland, in which ease the said Aubrey was to have the choice of 1 other comities. He was, in 1153, styled " Earl Aulil'cy " and, inl 155, " Earl of Oxford," indicating (apparently) that the Earldom of Cambridge ic«» possessed as conjecturcd.() For further details see " OXFORD," Earldom of, where the origin of the ancient Earldom held by the family of lie Vere will be fully discussed. On 23 May 1205, David ok Scotland, Eaiix ok Huntingdon, was iu receipt of the third penny of the county of Cambridge, and thus was reeoijniscd as EARL OK CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDON (see Close Rolls of that year), lie was br. to William the Lion, King of Scotland (the King above referred to), the former owner of those Earldoms. See under " Huntingdon, 1 ' Earldom of. The holders of the Earldom of Cambridge, as distinct from that of " Huntingdon and Cambridge " appear to have beeu as under, j Earldom. J. William of Julieus, Count of Juliers, b. about I 1310 1209, s. and h. of Gerhard, Count ok Julieus, by Elizabeth, da, of ' Theodoric, Count ok Cleves, sue, his Father, April 1320, was cr. 21 Aug. 1330, Marquis ok Julieus, ami Prince of the Empire, was UOl . Lieut., Capt., and Vicar-Gen. in France to King Edward III (to whose wife, Fhilippa, his own wife, was sister) and was cr. by him, 7 May 1340, EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. He was Joint Commissioner to France Sep. 1340 and Aug. 1341, and Chief Com. Oct. 1346 ; Ambassador to the Emperor, Dec. 1345 and Feb. 1340. In 1357 he was cr. Duke ok Julieus. He in. Jeanne, da. of William the Cood, Count ok HainaULT, by Jeanne, da. of Charles, Count ok Valois, s. of Philip, Kmc ok France. He d. Feb. 1301, leaving male issue, but his English Earldom, of which he was certainly iu possession as late as 1353, had not improbably beeu previously forfcilcd.( Q ) (") Ho d. s.p.ni. Avicia, one of his two daughters and coheirs m. Robert do Courcy, of Stoke Courcy co. Somerset, whose grandson John, was cr. Earl of Ulster [I.]. ( b ) The following remarks are in " Courthope," viz. "Prior to 1155 the Empress Hand (says Selden, quoting au ancient book of Evidences in the possession of the Earls of Oxford) gave to Alberic de Vere the Earldom of Cambridge iu these words : ' concede quod sit Comes de Cantebruggeseire et habeat inde tertium denarium sicut Comes debet habere, lta dieo, si Rex Scotia; uon habet ilium comitatum.' " ( c ) The following remarks are in " Courthope," viz. : " All writers have asserted that he surrendered this Earldom into the King's hands, who bestowed it about 1340 upon John of Avesnes, Lord of Beaumont, the Queen's uucle, who was deprived of the