In   like  manner,  Manning  and  Bray,  in  their  accomit  of  Sir  Thomas
Arundel,  (History  of  Surrey,  vol. i. p. 556,)  are  silent  as  to  his  brother
Sir  Edward  of  Aynho. In  Tierney's  History  of  Arundel,  although  his
account  is  generally  correct,  Sir  Edward  is  miscalled  Edmund. And  in
the  well-laboured  pedigree  of  the  Mautravers  branch  of  the  Fitzalans
annexed  to  the  notices  of  Sir  Richard  Arundel  in  the  Collectanea  Topo-
graphica,  vol. VI. pp. 16,  17,  Sir  Edward  and  his  brother  Sir  Thomas
are  not  mentioned. Dugdale  (Bar. vol. i. p. 318,  321)  omits  all  the
younger  children  and  younger  grandchildren,  with  their  descendants,  of
Sir  John  de  Arundel  Chevaler  senior,  the  grandfather  of  Sir  Edward
and  Sir  Thomas,  and  progenitor  of  that  branch  which  inherited    the
Barony  and  estates  of  Mautravers,   and  which,  after  the  lapse  of  three
generations,  came  into  possession  of  the  castle  and  earldom  of  Arundel ;
restricting  his  account  to  the  direct  lineal  descent  of  the  heir  male,  who
in  1415  succeeded  to  the  possession  and  inheritance   of  the  castle  and
earldom  ;  yet,  in  his  Summary  (p. 321)  of  the  leading  events  in  the
life  of  the  new  Earl's  father,  he  commits  a  series  of  gross  errors  in  mis-
appropriating to  the  father  the  history  of  the  grandfather,  and  omitting
the  father  altogether ;  whereby  the  pedigree  is  deprived  of  a  generation,
his  previous  statements  rendered  contradictory   and  irreconcileable,  and
the  whole  account  confused. Relying  on  the  accuracy  of  this  narrative
of  Dugdale,  the  historians  of  Surrey  and  Northamptonshire,  and  others,
in  their  accounts  of  this  family,  have  committed  the  same  errors  ;  even
so  the  Committees  of  Lords,  in  their  Reports  upon  the  Dignity  of  a
Peer  of  the  Realm,  when  treating  of  the  case  of  the  Earldom  of  Arun-
del, (First  Report,  p. 426,)  after  having  minutely  investigated  the  pro-
ceedings in  the  Parliament  of  1 1  Hen. VI. upon  the  claim  and  admission
of  the  possessor  of  the   castle  and  honour  of  Arundel  to  the  estate,
title,  and  dignity  of  Earl  of  Anindel  by  virtue   of  tenure,  leave  out  a
generation  in  this  branch  of  the  family,  notwithstanding  the  evidence
in  those  proceedings  to  the  contrary. 