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 ARUNDEL COMPLETE PEERAGE 249 On 3 Dec. 1441 he was sum. to Pari. (") as Earl of Arundel. (") He was Justice in Eyre of all forests south of the Trent 1459-61 and 1483-85. He took part with the Yorkists in their defeat at the second battle of St. Albans, 17 Feb. 1461. On i May 1471, he was Constable of Dover Castle, and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and again 1483 till his death. K.G. 1471. He assisted as Pincerna at the coronation of Richard III, (°) as also at that of Henry VII, which King received knighthood at his hands shortly before that ceremony. He founded the " Arundel Mass " (by gift of the manor of Aynho, co. Northampton), to be celebrated at Magd. Coll., Oxford. He m., after 17 Aug. 1438 (when his marriage was granted to his future father-in-law), Joan, ist da. of Richard (Nevill), Earl of Salis- bury, by Alice, suo jure Countess of Salisbury. She (who was sister of Richard, Earl of Warwick.) d. shortly before 9 Sep. 1462, and was bur. at Arundel. He d. late in 1487, in his 71st year, and was bur. there. Admon. 15 Dec. 1487, at Lambeth. XXII. 1487. 17 or 10. Thomas (Fitz Alan, otherwise Arundell, otherwise Mautravers), Earl of Arundel, ^sfc, s. and h., b. 1450. He (as " Lord Fitz- Alan ") was cr. K.B. at the coronation of Edward IV, 27 June 1461, and el. K.G. 26 Feb. 1473/4. It appears from the Rolls of Pari, that in (1471) n Edw. IV, he sat as Lord Mautravers, though there is no record (^) of his having been so sum. till 15 Nov. (1482), 22 Edw. IV, when the writ was directed to him (v.p.) as " Thome Arundell' de Matravers militi " (") in which title (LORD ARUN- DELL DE MAUTRAVERS) he sat, till in 1488 he sue. to the Earldom. As ' Lord Mautravers ' he was one of the peers at the coronation or (*) This summons was not till eight years after the admission (1433) which confirmed the Earldom of Arundel to the Fitz Alan family. The delay is accounted for by the absence in France of Earl John, and the minority of his successor. It is probable, also, that this William may have been sum. some two or three years earlier, but the lists of summonses from 1438 to 1441 are unfortunately lost. C") Precedency of the Earls of Arundel, In 1 446, Thomas (Courtenay), Earl of Devon, challenged the precedence of the Earl of Arundel. The decision of the King, with consent of the Lords of Pari., was " that William, now Earl of Arundel, have, keep, and enjoy his seat, place and pre-eminence in the High Court of Pari., and in the King's Councils and elsewhere in the King's high presence, as Earl of Arundel, by reason of the Castle, Honour and Lordship of Arundel, as worshipfully as ever did any of his ancestors, Earls of Arundel, afore his time, above the said Earl of Devonshire and his heirs, without letting, challenge or interruption of the said Earl of Devonshire or of his heirs or of any other person. " {Rot. Pari., vol. v, p. 140.) " Thus ended, " adds Canon Tierney, " a controversy which, in its results, confirmed this Parliamentary decision of 1433 and established the Earldom in its original supremacy of honour above every other similar title of dignity. " Tierney, Hist, of Arundel, vol. i, p. 138. C^) Being one of the 35 nobles there present. For a list of them, see note sub Humphrey, Lord Dacre de Gillesland [1473]. (") From 18 to 21 Edw. IV there are no writs, for there were no Paris. (*) For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. to Pari, before the accession of James I, see Appendix G. in this volume. V.G. 33