0 a British nobleman between a marquis and a viscount in rank -- ตำแหน่งขุนนางอังกฤษ
the Earl of Essex.
No other modern society confers titles with the pretentious nomenclature of duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron.
The 164 earls and countesses, coming down the scale, could be charged an annual licence fee of £600, which would bring in £98,400.
Earl (1995: 113) talks of an incompleteness in ' the list of rival possible states of the world that decision-makers have in mind'.
They were, rather, the earls' kinsmen.
They have no earls, no barons, no noblemen, of whom their gentlemen should stand in awe.
On days when the king was not present he occupied the head of the earls' bench on the left of the chamber.
However, events after 1771 when the second earl effectively went bankrupt suggest a substantial and continuing contribution.
At that moment the fourteen craftsmen building the earl's new mansion were discharged and removed to their parishes of settlement.
