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his feet on the fender, may not have Raine's North Durham 

 and the new History of Northumberland at his elbow to consult ! 

 The Comte de Tankerville is mentioned at page 157 of the 

 translation, and it would have been easy and appropriate for 

 the learned Editor to have added a note of explanation how 

 the Greys assumed that title of old France, when advanced 

 a step in the peerage in 1695 by King William III.* 



* William Grey of Chillingham was created a baron by letters 

 patent given 11th February 1624, and his grandson Ford, third Lord 

 Grey of Wark, was advanced in the peerage 11th Jane 1695, under 

 the style of Viscount Grey of Glendale and Earl of Tankerville, — the 

 latter title being taken by that curious predilection of English people 

 for selecting Norman names, from Tankerville in France. At his 

 death in 1701, the earldom and viscountcy expired, and the barony 

 passed to his brother Ralph, fourth Lord Grey of Wark, Governor 

 of Barbados, who died s.p. Charles Bennet, Lord Ossulston, husband 

 of Mary, only child and heiress of the Earl of Tankerville, by letters 

 patent given 19th October 1714, was made first Earl of Tankerville 

 of the second creation. The extensive estates of the family were 

 eventually partitioned between the issue of Mary, Countess of Tanker- 

 ville, and the heir male, John Grey of Howick. 



