Mad Tom, who, besides proclaiming himself to be the Messiah, claimed also to be the heir to the earldom of Devon, and called himself Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay, the Hon.

A regiment of Warwickshire militia, probably commanded by the Earl, was going through its drill in the market-place; and on the collar of one of the officers was embroidered the Bear and Ragged Staff, which has been the cognizance of the Warwick earldom from time immemorial.

And I will pawn mine earldom with my love, And lose them both, if I lose Honorea.

Some of the noblest families of the realm had won their knightly spurs and their ancient earldoms by warlike prowess against the Southron.

Godwin was an able man, and got several earldoms for his wife and relatives at a time when that was just what they needed.

Lord Kilmarnock is a Presbyterian, with four earldoms in him, but so poor since Lord Wilmington's stopping a pension that my father had given him, that he often wanted a dinner.