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irrjnentop Camtoeii THIRD SERIES, No. XVII.—JANUARY, 1859. THE EARLS, EARLDOM, AND CASTLE OF PEMBROKE. No. I. It has but seldom happened that those families, in whose favour, in modern times, have been revived the titles of the great Norman nobles, could claim any close affinity with, or direct descent from, the distinguished warriors or statesmen by whom their original lustre was achieved. Thus it is with the Oxfords and Mortimers, the Leicesters, the Derbys, the Warwicks and Winchesters, the Staffords, the Hertfords, the Salisburys, and the Buckinghams. The earldoms of Arundel and Surrey, Norfolk and Northumberland, are indeed represented in blood, but through lines depending on more than one occasion upon the distaff for their continuity, while the representatives of the houses of Hastings, Neyill and Clinton, rare examples of pure male descent, have taken refuge in titles either of later creation, or anciently of subordinate consideration in their families. Hastings indeed com¬ memorates in the title of Huntingdon an earldom originally held by David le Scot, heir of the throne of Scotland, whose daughter and heiress married the repre¬ sentative of that family. The title of Pembroke belongs to the first of these categories, although its owners are not without illustra- ARCH. CAMB., THIRD SERIES, VOL. V. B