| She preferred that her husband should be an earl, because an earl was belted, and a duke, we surmised, was not. |
| Begun by Arnulf de Montgomery, a son of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, it has an inner and outer bailey. |
| Rowland Lacy, a kinsman of the Earl of Lincoln, loves Rose, the daughter of the Lord Mayor of London. |
| In return for this, William generously made the great English earl a Norman knight. |
| A receptionist at the hotel said there was a record of the earl staying that night. |
| The Countess of Newburgh gave the brush-off to an earl 15 times and locked him out of her house. |
