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52 WARRINGTON — ^WARWICK. at Bowdon, when the Saridom of WiMrrinffUm beoeme ixtindf bat the other title* deTolTed on hie ooann and heir male. Will pr. 1758 UI. 1796. 1. QiOROB Earrt (6rbt), Earl of Stamford, &a, let 8. and h. of Harry (Gbbt), 4th Babl of Stamfobd, by ICaiY, da. and h. of George (Booth), Earl of VVARRiNOTOir abovenamed, $ue. to tke peerage, aa abuve, 30 May 1768, and waa cr. 22 April 1796, BARON DELAMER OF DUNHAM MASSBY, co. Cheater, and EARL OF WAR- RINGTON. He d. 23 May 1819, aged 81. IV. 1819. i^, GsoBQB Harrt (Gret), Earl of Stamford, Earl op Warrington, ftc, a. and h. ; d. 26 April 1846, in hia 80th year. , y. 1845, 3. Gborgb Harry (Grbt), Earl of Stamford to [1628], Earl op WaRRiNOTdN [1796], Baron Grst op Groby 1883 [1608], and Baron Drlamsr op Dunham Massbt [1796], grandaon and h. ; d, B.p. 2 Jan. 1883, in hia 56th year, when the Earldom of Warrington and the Barong oj Delamer of Jhinkam Maaeg, became extinct, but Uie other tttlea devolved on hia couatn and h. male. WARRINGTON, see Wbrington. 15 3 S

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I" WARWICK (Gounty.)(») Earldom. 7. Hbnrt db NBWBURau,(^) oihennu db Bbaumont, yr. I 1090 f ^^* ^^ Robert, CoDNT op Mbulan.(c) and ((lerhapa) Earl op Lbiobs- TBB, both being aona of Roger DR Bbaumont, Sbfonbub db Pontau- DBMBR, by Adelina, aiater of Hugh and da. of Waleran, each of them, aucceaaively. Count op Mbui^n,(^) waa h. alxiut 1046; ia apoken of oa *'a brave Knight," in lOdd.C**) tho* he doea not appear to have been preaent at the battle of Haatinga. He waa, however, Couatable of Warwick Caatle, 1068 ; waa Councillor to William I. in 1079, " waa a Baron of the Exchequer of Normandy, 12 April 1080,*'(0 and reaided, apparently, chiefly in Norinitmiy. He received a grant of the vaat poaaeauona in Warwickahire of (a Saxon Noble) Thurkillof Ardeii, from William II. about 1090, by whom(*) preaumably he waaUieu cr, KAKL OF WARWICK. Being a friend and oom|)anion of Henry, afterwarda Henry I., he exerted hiniaelf in 1100 in procuring hia election aa King, and (with hia br. abovementioned) waa one of the few who remained faithful to him in 1101. He m. before 1100, Margaret, elder da. of Geoffrey II., Count op Pbuchb, by Beatrice, du. of Hilduin IV., Count of Mont- (*) The traditional " Guy, Earl of Warwick,*' aupjioaed to have lived during the reign [925-941] of Athelatan, ia famed, in romance, aa having alain aeveral Saracena at Oonatantioople ; a Daniah Giant, named Colbrand, near Wincheater ; a aavage Dragon, which waa devaatatine Northumberland, and laat (not leaat) a gigantic Cow [I], whoae rib ia atill [1897] on view in Warwick Caatle. (b) So called, aaya Dogdale,from the caatle of that name in Normandy, **Neubourg, the place probably alluded to by Dugdale ia near Louviera." [Lower'a ^ Patr, ti%*it. (0) See vol V, p. 40, note "o,*' iti6 ** I^iceater." (<i) *'Rom4indeBou:' (•) *' Roue, in hia MS. hiatory of the Earla of Warwick, aa quoted by Dugdale, atatea that it waa in the latter part of the reign of King William the Conqueror that thia Henry waa promoted to tlie Earldom." OowrtkQfpe The worda uaed by Roua are that he .waa created "per aervitium oomitatua cum aooa et aaca," &a ; "cum mulda privilegiia," but, he adda '* ad viaum tamen carte creationia hnjua Coniitia nunquam potui attingere.*' John Roua, a monk of Guy'a Cliff, co. Warwick, who d, 1491, waa auUior of a ourioua roll, with portraita, arma, badgea, &&, and of a full account of Ueae Earla, "from Brutoa their founder," including of oourae, the redoubtable " Guy," and many auch like. Thia waa printed in 1845* (1) " DoyUC' quoting " Floquet, ll,"