Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

Worcester, Marquis (Somerset). From the City.

Manchester, Duke.—From the Town.

Mandeville, Viscount (Montagu).—A nominal Title from Geoffrey de Mandeville, who possessed Kimbolton, the Seat of the Family, temp. Guil. Conq.[244]

Mandeville is a Village in Normandy (a corruption of Magnaville, i. e. Magna Villa), which gave name to the person who accompanied William the Conqueror[245].

Waldegrave, Earl.—Waldegrave is a Village in Northamptonshire.

Chewton, Viscount (Waldegrave).—From a place in Somersetshire[246].

Mount-Edgecumbe, Earl.—Baron Edgecumbe by Creation, 1742. Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe by Creation, 1789. From the Family Seat in Cornwall.

Valletort, Viscount (Edgecumbe).—From an old Norman Barony (De Valle Tortâ), with Lands annexed, in Devonshire, the property of the Family[247].

Gainsborough, Earl.—From the Town.