[1145] Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 685.
[1146] I must certainly decline to accept the rash conjecture of Mr. Ellis that the mullet of De Vere represents the chamberlainship, on the ground that one of his predecessors, Robert Malet, might have borne a mullet as an "heraldic and allusive cognizance."
[1147] See p. 226 n.
[1148] Compare the case of Raymond (le Gros) meeting William fitz Aldelin, on his landing in Ireland (December, 1176), at the head of thirty of his kinsmen, "clipeis assumptis unius armaturæ" (Expugnatio Hiberniæ).
APPENDIX V.
WILLIAM OF ARQUES.
(See p. [180].)
Separate treatment is demanded by that clause in the charter to Aubrey which deals with the fief of William of Arques:—
"Et do et concedo ei totam terram Willelmi de Albrincis sine placito, pro servicio suo, simul cum hæreditate et jure quod clamat ex parte uxoris suæ sicut unquam Willelmus de Archis ea melius tenuit."
The descent of this barony has formed the subject of an erudite and instructive paper by the late Mr. Stapleton.[1149] The pedigree which he established may be thus expressed:—