Comes Palatinus.] [** Brady's Hist.p.198, 200.] [*** Order Vitalia.] William, earl Warrenne, two hundred and ninety-eight, besides twenty-eight towns or hamlets in Yorkshire: Todenei, eighty-one: Roger Bigod, one hundred and twenty-three: Robert, earl of Eu, one hundred and nineteen: Roger Mortimer, one hundred and thirty-two, besides several hamlets: Robert de Stafford, one hundred and thirty: Walter de Eurus, earl of Salisbury, forty-six Geoffrey de Mandeville, one hundred and eighteen Richard de Clare, one hundred and seventy-one: Hugh de Beauchamp, forty-seven: Baldwin de Rivers, one hundred and sixty-four: Henry de Ferrers, two hundred and twenty?
two: William de Percy, one hundred and nineteen:[*] Norman d'Arcy, thirty-three.[**] Sir Henry Spelman computea that, in the large county of Norfolk, there were not, in the Conqueror's time, above sixty-six proprietors of land.[***] Men possessed of such princely revenues and jurisdictions could not long be retained in the rank of subjects.

The great Earl Warrenne, in a subsequent reign, when he was questioned concerning his right to the lands which he possessed, drew his sword, which he produced as his title; adding, that William the bastard did not conquer the kingdom himself; but that the barons, and his ancestor among me rest, were joint adventurers in the enterprise.[****] [* Dugdale's Baronage, from Domesday-book, vol.i.
p.

60, 74; iii.

112, 132, 136, 138, 156, 174, 200, 207, 223, 254, 257, 269.] [** Ibid.p.319.It is remarkable that this family of D'Arcy seema to be the only male descendants of any of the Conqueror's barons now remaining among the peers.
Lord Holdernesse is the heir of that family.] [*** Spel.

Gloss, hi verb.