Note 16 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
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Yet on page 253, as we have seen, we read of 'the East Anglian Earldom', and on page 573 that the younger Ralph 'had received the Earldom of East Anglia'—Florence of Worcester distinctly terming him 'East-Anglorum comite'. Mr Freeman, indeed, was led by this passage to style him 'Earl of Norfolk or of the East Angles'.16 I believe this latter style to be perfectly correct, and, as I have shown in my Geoffrey de Mandeville (p. 191), to apply even to the Bigod earldom in the days of Stephen.