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 589 APPENDIX A SURRENDER OF PEERAGES IN ENGLAND The surrender of a Peerage in England (so frequent in Scotland) whether to the Crown itself, or to a Subject with subsequent confirmation by the Crown, was by no means unusual up to the time of Charles I. The following is a list, chronologically arranged, of some such surrenders. 1232 Leicester, Earldom, confirmed to Simon de Montfort, on the resignation of his elder br. Amaury. 1233 Lincoln, Earldom, confirmed to John de Lacy, on the resignation of [his wife's mother] Hawise de Quincy, to whom her br. Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had by charter resigned the said Earldom of Lincoln. 1302 Norfolk, Earldom, together with the Marshalship of England, resigned by Ros:er Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, <^c., to Edward L 1309 Hereford and Essex, Earldom. Recital in a charter (18 May, 2 Edward II) that Humphrey de Bohun did lately by charter surrender all his lands, i^c, "with the name of Earl in the counties of Hereford and Essex," to the late King Edward I. 1372 Richmond, Earldom, resigned to Edward III by the grantee's son John, Duke of Lancaster, King of Castile and Leon, fsfc. 1377 Bedford, Earldom, rc-i/V^^.^ to Richard II by the grantee, Enguerrand de Coucy, together with all his English honours, on his devoting himself to the service of France. 1433 Bedford, Dukedom, and Kendal, Earldom. These dignities which had been cr. for life only by Henry V, were resigned in 1433 to Henry VI, who granted' a fresh patent thereof, 8 July 1433, with rem. to the heirs male of the body. „ Gloucester, Dukedom, and Pembroke, Earldom, cr. for life onh were resigned and regranted on the same date and in the same manner as "Bedford." 1448 Say, Barony, resigned by John, Lord Clinton, in favour of James (Fiennes), Lord Say and Sele. As to this resignation, see ante, p. 315, text and note "d." 1450 Warwick, Earldom, confirmed 23 July 1449 to Richard Neville, who resigned the same, receiving a regrant thereof 2 Mar. 1450 to himself and Anne, his wife.