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 230 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about 30,000 acres in CO. Mayo, and about 7,000 in co. Donegal. Total about 37,000 acres of the yearly value of about ;^ 10,000 ; exclusive of about 7,000 acres let on perpetual leases, and of fisheries, ^c. Principal Residence. — Castle Gore, CO. Mayo. ARRASS See "Macdonnell and Arrass," Barony [S.] (Macdonnell)^ cr. 1660, extinct 1680. ARTAGH See " De Freyne of Artagh, co. Roscommon, " Barony (French)^ cr. 1839, extinct 1856. A R U N D E L C) (co. Sussex) EARLDOM. I. Roger de Montgomery (who, in right of his ist y ^ wife, Mabel de Bell^me, da. of William Talvas, was '■ Lord of Alencjon, Seez, tfc, in Normandy), having during the invasion of England, remained, as Regent, in Normandy, came over thence, for the first time, with King William, in Dec. 1067, and, at the Christmas festival, was cr. an EARL, receiving, among other large (*) The old Sussex tradition is that — " Since William rose and Harold fell, There have been Earls of Arundel. " (See 1^. & Q., 6th Ser., vol. ix, 341.) And such (unless, perhaps, for a year or so) is the case if only for " of" we read " at, " leaving it as an open question whether the earlier Earls were not (more properly) Earls of a greater territory, though styled as " of Arundel" from their chief residence. In treating of these Earls the Editor has followed Vincent in considering Roger de Montgomery (to whom the Conqueror gave the Castle of Arundel) to have been the 1st Earl of Arundel. Whether or no he and his sons (undoubted possessors of Arundel) are numbered among such Earls, is not, however, very material. A truly marvellous work entitled The early Genealogical History of the House of Arundel, has been written by " John Pym Yeatman, Esq., Barrister at Law, fife." Herein is contained " An account of the origin of the families of Montgomery, Albini, Fitz Alan and Howard (sic) from the time of the Conquest of Normandy by Rollo the Great. " Such researches are beyond the scope of this publication, and so far as it concerns the actual Earls of Arundel the Editor has not generally seen his way to adopt the conclusions arrived at. The enormous amount of documents examined, as also the labour that must have been undergone by its author, is appalling, yet must it be said of this voluminous work (as was said of that of a still more eminent author eighteen centuries earlier), that therein are " things hard to he understood. " An accurate and lucid history of the great family of d'Aubigny is yet to be written, and it is to be regretted that it was not undertaken by Chester Waters, as belonging to that period in which his genealogical knowledge was so great.