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 6io APPENDIX D Segrave and Stourton, as senior heir general of the Earls of Arundel, which the Dukes of Norfolk had not been since 1777. This last was a new claim, based on the ground that the office was held in fee and should descend to heirs general. The claimant, however, was not the senior representative of the original grantee. (^) The court excluded from its purview all these claims as relating to the abandoned banquet. There is thus no office now to claim, and, if there were, the right to it would certainly be contested. On the ground, however, of precedent — what- ever the historic right — the office would probably be awarded to the Dukes of Norfolk as holding the earldom of Arundel. The office of Chief Butler of Ireland was claimed for the coronation of Edward VII by the Marquess of Ormonde, as it had been for the coronation of George IV (1821) by his predecessor, on which occasion the right to the office was admitted to be in the petitioner. But this claim also was ex- cluded owing to the abandonment of the banquet. The Butlers derived their name from the office, which was apparently bestowed on them as early as the 1 2th century, but, although their right to it in the 19th was so effectually recognised by the Crown that the prisage of wines was redeemed from them at great cost in 181 1, it is by no means clear how the office descended. They are, no doubt, heirs male of the grantee, but a grant of the Butlership in tail male so early as the I2th century seems very improbable. The prisage of wines appears to have been claimed under a separate and later grant. With the Chief Butler ends the list of the "hereditary" great offices of state. J. H. R. LIST OF MARSHALS OF ENGLAND AND EARLS MARSHAL temp. Henry I. Gilbert by 1 130. John Marshal, son of Gilbert by 1 166. John Marshal, son of John 1 1 94. William (Marshal), Earl of PembrokejC") brother 12 19. May 14. William (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke, son of William (") The petitions and counter-petitions of these claimants are printed in full in Wollaston's Court of Claims (1903). C") The office of Marshal was confirmed to him by King John's charter of 20 Apr. 1200, "which proves that a certain Gilbert and John his son made good their claim, in the Court of Henry I, to the chief Marshalship as against Robert de Venoiz and William de Hastings who claimed the same office." See J. H. Round's The King's Serjeants, etc., p. 89. As to the theory that the Marshalship of England was distinct in origin and character from the Marshalship of the King's Household, and that this William united these two offices by his marriage with Isabel de Clare, see the same writer's Commune of London, p. 305.