But so braue
a lustre could not lye long concealed, without shining foorth into
Edgars knowledge, who finding the truth of his Ambassadours falshood,
tooke Athelwold at an aduantage, slewe him, and maried her, beeing a
widdowe, whome hee had wooed a mayde.
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Hitherunto, these titles of honour carry a kinde of confusednes,
and rather betokened a successiue office, then an established dignity.
The following ages receiued a more distinct forme, and left vs a
certeyner notice.
[1067.]
What time William the bastard subdued this Realme, one Condor
possessed the Earledome of Cornwall, and did homage for the same:
he had issue another Condor, whose daughter and heire Agnes, was
maried to Reignald Earle of Bristowe, base sonne to King Henry the
first.
This note I borrowed out of an industrious collection, which setteth
downe all the noble mens creations, Armes, and principall descents,
in euery Kings dayes since the conquest: but master Camden, our
Clarentieulx, nameth him Cadoc, and saith farther, that Robert Morton,
brother to William Conquerour, by his mother Herlot, was the first
Earle of Norman blood, and that his sonne William succeeded him;
who taking part with Duke Robert, against Henry the first, thereby
got captiuity, and lost his honour, with which that King inuested
the forementioned Reignald.
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