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SURREY. 329 also established in his wife'« room, before 12 Dec. 13-16, onu Isabel de Holand [da. of Robert and Maud), whom in his will he speaks of ax ["ma compaignc"] his consort. (•') He d. s.p. legit. 30 June 1317, aged 51, and whs 6i<r. in the priory nf Lewes af*d.() On his death (Ac Earldamt of Surrey and Sussex may be considered to have devolved on his nephew ami heir, or (as more probably was the case) to have reverted to the Cruicn. Will tint, at Cotiisborough Castle 24 June and pr. 25 July 1347 at Scroby.(c) His widow Obtained, 20 June (1349) 23 Ed. III., a pant of all the lands of the Earldom for bur life with rem. to her husband's heir, the Karl of Arundel. She d. abroad 30 Aug. 1351 and was bur. there. M.I. at Lewes pi iory. ««♦•»• VIII. 1347, iotS. RicnARD (Fitzalas), Earl or Arundel," 1 -it or nephew and h., being s. and h. of Edmund, Earl of 1361, Ahinukl, by Alice (living 1330 but d. before 1347), only sister of Earl John, abov. named. He was 6. about 130G, and was restored to the honours of his father (who had been attainted and beheaded, 17 N" rJ2'i) in 1331. Tito' heir to his maternal uncle abovenamed, 30 June 1347, it was not till the death of the Dow. Countess, 30 Aug. 1301, that he assumed the title of KARL OF SURREY, settling the vast estates of the family of Warenne in 1360 on his issue. ("•) He, who is styled " Earl of Arundel and Surrey," 1 July 1370,C") d. 24 Jan. 1375/6, in his "70th year, and was bur. in Lewes priory. IX. I37G, 9 or G. Richard (Fitzalan), to and Eahi, op SURREY, s. and b. ; 6. about 1348; sue. his 1307. father, 24 Jan. 1375/6 ; K.O., 13S6. He was beheaded 18 Sep. 1397, aged about 50, when, having been attainted, all his honours were forfeited. of Warren are differenced with a canton gu, charged with a lion rampant [ermine], Wing the coat of Kerfi.pl. See an article in the Hetrosp. Review. 18'!3 (2d s„ ii, 527), by Joseph Hunter. Sir George Warren, K B., who d. s.p.m., 30 Aug. 1S01, was, apparently, the last heir male of that house. It was for bis glory that his chaplain, Rev. John Watsou, produced the history of the family (see p. 323, note "d,") with a view to prove the Warrens of Poyntou to be in "legitimate descent from the ancient Earls of Warren, and that, being so descended, the head of that family [the said Sir George] had a right [ !] to the Earldom of Warren." ( ;l ) The same term is applied in the same will to the wife of testator's son, William, while his nephew and heir, Richard, Earl of Arundel, in his will of 1375, designates his wife as " Ma tres chere compaigue. Aliauore de Laucastre." l b ) Particulars of his "truly unhappy life" are in Hunter's "South Yorkshire," vol i, p. 108. (°) lu his will, printed by the Surtees Soc. ( Test, i'bor., vol. ii. p. 41), he is described as " Johan, Couute de Warenne, de Surrey et de Stratherne, Seigneur de Bromfeld et de Yal." One of his seals is inscribed (with apparently greater accuracy) " Sigillum Johannia Comitis Warenniio et Strathernire and Comitis Palacii," Stratherne being a County Palatine in Scotland, while " Earl Warren " would serve to express that he was " "Earl of Surrey," or even " Earl of Surrey and Sussex," in England. That he was "Earl of Surrey (or Earl of Surrey and Sussex) and Earl Warren" seems unintelligible. ( J ) The non assumption of the Earldom of Surrey in the middle of the 14th century, (hiring the period in which the estates of that Earldom were held by the Dow. Countess, illustrates the territorial nature of the ancient Earldoms, it being, according to au able writer (L. 0. Pike, in his " Ooustit. Hist, of the House of Lords"), "a recognised doctrine in the reign of Ed. III. that an Earl must have lands to support bis Earldom," which was also "au accepted opiuiou " as late as (1435-36) 14 Hen. VI. See a similar case as to the Earldom of Sussex, p. 331, note " a." i e ) OriginaUa Rolls, 23.