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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford.
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Eventually, in January 1989, she was awarded custody of their daughters and the earl was granted access.
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It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh, earl of Chester.
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Nor was Gloucester's northern connection ever just that of the earl of Warwick.
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The earl , so Sir Philip informed me, is greatly attached to your boy.
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The main beneficiary in both cases was the head of the family, Anthony earl Rivers.
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The major landowners were the duchy of York, with which Gloucester had no formal connection, and the earls of Shrewsbury.