0 (the title of) a British man of high social rank, between a marquis and a viscount -- （英國）伯爵（封號）
the Earl of Northumberland 諾森伯蘭伯爵
So he returned them their arms and entered the palace with the earl.
He was, nevertheless, a man of reasonable though unexceptional ability - by no means a pitiful nonentity like the second earl.
The creation of new earls and marquesses inevitably led the more senior barons and earls to demand restoration of their pre-eminence.
Many feared, not without reason, that the king was about to dissolve parliament, reprieve the earl, and turn against his tormenters.
The fourth earl succeeded to his title while still an infant.
Among the most conservative of the earl's men were his ecclesiastical tenants.
Thus, the tenurial position of the earl in respect of the crown was left unwritten and to a significant extent ambiguous.
At that moment the fourteen craftsmen building the earl's new mansion were discharged and removed to their parishes of settlement.
