Hugh Bigot erle of Norfolke a valiant chieftein entered into Norwhich, Baldwin Reduers tooke Excester, & Robert Quisquere got certeine castels also into his hands.
Some write that the empresse brought with hir a great armie, to the intent that ioining with Ranulph earle of Chester (who tooke part with Robert erle of Glocester, bicause the same Rob.
Sidenote: The earle of Leicester brother to the erle of Mellent.
Bath, where Ethelmere an [Sidenote: Erle of Deuonshire as saith Matt.
Irelond to bryng no tydings; and so it semyth there is myche to doo there be the Erleof Pembrook.
These tydings to Erle Douglas came, In Scotland where he lay: Who sent Erle Percy present word, He wold prevent his sport.
Accurst be he,' Erle Percy said, 'By whom this is denied.
Yet bides Erle Douglas on the bent, As Chieftain stout and good.
A knight amongst the Scots there was, Which saw Erle Douglas dye, Who straight in wrath did vow revenge Upon the Lord Percye.
When the erle sawe that he colde do no good with his engynes, he caused theym to cease; then he called to hym his myners, to thyntent that they shuld make a myne under alle the walles, the whiche was nat sone made.
When king William had set all things in order through the most part of the realme, he deliuered the guiding thereof vnto his brother Odo, the bishop of Bayeux, and his coosine William Fits Osborne, whom he had made erle of Hereford.
The king therefore yer he passed ouer himselfe, sent the erle of Huntington to search and scowre the seas.
Moreouer, about the closing of the daie and night in the euening, he sent foorth the erle of Huntington with other bands of soldiers, to succor and assist the other, if they chanced to enter the towne according to the order taken.
The erle of Warwike that had latelie woone Dampfront, was sent to besiege Cawdebecke, a towne standing on the riuer side, betweene the sea and the citie of Rone.
And next after, there was produced and redd a declaration of the Erle of Morton of the manner of the finding of the said lettres, as the same was exhibited upon his othe, the ix of December.
Item deponis that Ilk ane that wer of the band and siclike the erle of Morton and Sy{r} James balfo{r} suld haif send twa men to the committing of the murther.
The other set is in Scots, 'Notes drawin furth of the Quenis letters sent to the Erle Bothwell.
The endorsing is, as usual, by a Scot, and runs, 'Ane short Lettre from Glasco to the Erle Bothwell.
Erle Huntly and Bothwell returnit that same nycht to Edynt [Edinburgh] and Bothwell lay in the Town.
But William he is in care-bed layd, And for the loue of a ffaire ladye; If he haue not the loue of the Erle of Mar's daughter, In ffaith ffor loue that he must dye.
And when he came to the Erle of Mar's his house, Soe well he could his curtesye, And when he came before the erle, He kneeled low downe vpon his knee.
And in twelue monthe soe they wrought, The lady shee was great with childe; The sent Iohn Stewart to the Erle off Marre, To come and christen the barne soe milde.
I'le make thee an erle with a siluer wande, And adde more honors still to thee; Thy brother Iohn shall be a lord, Of the best att home in his countrye.
And when they games that they were done, And all they ffolkes away were gone But the Erleof Marr and William Stewart, The erle wold needs haue William home.
He is a lord now borne by birth, And an erle affter his ffather doth dye; His haire is yellow, his eyes beene gray; All this is true that I tell yee.
And when he came to the Erle of Marr's house, By chance itt was of the dole-day; But Iohn cold ffind no place to stand, Vntill he came to the ladye gaye.
I'le cloth my selfe in strange array, In a beggar's habbitt I will goe, That when I come before the Erle of Marr My clothing strange he shall not knowe.
If your ffather be a right good erle As any remaines in his owne countrye, Tush!
Now this ladye is gone to her fathers hall, When euery body their rest did take; But the Erle which was her ffather Lay waken for his deere daughters sake.
Compearit personally John Mackenzie, "naturall" broyr to ane noble Erle Kenneth Erle of Seaforth Lord of Kintail, etc.
It may be pardoned in an old ex-courtier to think it a dreadful thing to have written 'dispytfull invectives against the Erle of Monteith.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
