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 APPENDIX H 66i strong claim to special consideration; and she seems in some sort to have had recognition as Countess of Essex, for she is frequently so styled up to her death.(^) Rogerus de Aunteseye et Matildis uxor ejus reddunt compotum dc mmm iff DC y quater xx y viij /. & xvij s. ^ ij d. pro W. de Maundeuill' Comiti Esscxie, sicut continetur in Rotulo precedente; in thesauro xxxiiij /. is" vj j. ^ ij d.; et in tcrcio denario Comitatus Essexic quern Comes W. de Maundeuill' cujus heres ipsa M. est percipere consuevit, quern modo Vicecomes liberal in thesauro Regis ad Scaccarium Ixv /. y xiij 5. is" X d.{*>) (b) Randolph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln {d. s.p., in Oct. 1232), by charter conveyed to his sister, Hawise, widow of Robert de Qucncy (or Quincy), the county or the Earldom of Lincoln: Comitatum Lincolnix scilicet quantum ad me pertinuit ut inde comitissa existat.C) On 27 Oct. 1232, shortly after Randolph's death, ('^) the King gave the third penny of the county of Lincoln to Hawise: Rex commisit Hawisie de Quency que fuit sorer Rannulfi, comitis Cestrie id quod idem comes recipere consuevit de comitatu Lincolnie nomine com[itatus] Et mandatum est vicecomiti Lincolnie quod eidem Hawisie inde plenam saisinam habere faciat.(') We are not concerned at present with the question whether Randolph had the power to transfer his earldom to his sister; but it can hardly be denied that the King's grant shows that at this period a woman was con- sidered competent to receive the third penny. (c) We have seen in the entry on the Close Roll quoted on p. 660 that Isabel, Countess of Devon, is stated by the King to have received the third penny of that county — " which fee Isabella and her ancestors received yearly by the hands of the sheriff of Devon." (^) Thomas, Earl of Warwick, d. s.p., 26 June 1242. His only sister, Margery, was then wife of John Marshal, who had seisin of Warwick Castle 3 Oct. 1242, and d. s.p., the same month. On 7 June {*) See Ca/. Close Rolls, 1231-34, CaL of Charter Rolls, 1226-57, ^^^ ^°'- Patent Rolls, 1232-47, where she is variously styled Countess of Essex, Countess of Hereford, and Countess of Hereford and Essex. On 25 Jan. 1235 she received a grant as " Maud, Countess of Essex, that in the event of the death of H. Earl of Hereford, her son, ^z." Her son does not appear to have been styled Earl of Essex till after her death. (b) Pipe Roll, 13 Hen. Ill, m. 14 a'. ("=) Selden, Titles of Honour, p. 653. C*) His death is mentioned in a writ of 27 Oct. [Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, vol. i, p. 230). C) Patent Roll, 16 Hen. Ill, m. 1.