Summary of Regnal Years of the Sovereigns of England,

*The years of the reign of John were reckoned from Afcenfion-day in each year, fee p. 280. + The 20th of November in each year of Edward's reign belonged partly to one year and partly to another, the regnal years being reckoned from the 20th of Nov. to the 20th of Nov. inclufive Henry VI. called the year of his reftoration [A.D. 1470] the 49th year of his reign, and ignored the reign of Edward the Fourth.

Edward IV. ignored the 49th year of the reign of Henry VI., and continued the reckoning of his own regnal years, calling the year of his reftoration [A.D. 1471] the 11th year of his reign.

Mary reckoned the 2nd year of her reign from the 6th of July, and ignored the reign of Jane; and on her marriage the regnal years were called the 1ft and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, &c., the years of the reign of Philip being counted with thofe of Mary, fee p. 287.

+ Charles II. ignored the time of the "Government of the Commonwealth of England," and called the year of his restoration the 12th year of his reign.

William III. reigned alone after the death of Queen Mary, but no change was made in reckoning the regnal years.

[George II.] The introduction of the New Style of writing dates in 1752, Sept. 2, when

the next day was called "Sept. 14," caufed the 26th year of George II. to extend to the 21ft of June, and the following years to be reckoned from the 22nd of June.

A

Married, Mervin Urich, who fucceeded in right of his
wife.

Roderic II. furnamed Mawre, (the Great)

843.

This Roderic partitioned his kingdom among his three
fons, on condition that the two youngest fons and their
fucceffors should be fubject to the Princes of North Wales,
or to the posterity of the elder one.

The laft Sovereign Prince of Wales of the British race, flain in the Battle of Bueth. His head was put on a pole, crowned with an ivy crown, and carried in triumph through London.

Thus ended the line of the Princes of North Wales by the arms of King Edward the First, who, to keep the country under fubjection, gave Welch eftates to many Englishmen. He partitioned Wales into seven shires, and placed over each an English Lieutenant; but as the Welch appeared to be averse to this English dominion, Edward fent for his wife to Caernarvon in Wales, where she was delivered of a fon, who became Prince of Wales, a title which has been borne fince that time by the eldest fons of the Kings of England.

Earls of Cornwall.

I. Robert, Count of Mortein in Normandy.
Half brother of William the Conqueror.

[— 1087].

Poffeffed, when Domesday Book was made, almost the
whole county of Cornwall, except the lands of the King
and of the Church; and in confequence it has been fup-
pofed that he was Earl of Cornwall, but he is only known
by the title of "Comes Moritonienfis.”

II. William de Mortein.

He was flain in Northumberland in 1087. [1087-1104].

Son and heir of Robert.

Was difpoffeffed of the county of Cornwall and Mortein
by King Henry I. A.D. 1104, and then became a monk

at Bermondsey.

III. Reginald de Dunftanvill.

Natural fon of King Henry I.

Ob. S. P. [1140-].

Created Earl of Cornwall by King Stephen, A.D. 1140.

IV. John Plantagenet.

Second fon of King Henry II.

Ob. S. P. M. L. [— 1215].

Bore the title of Earl of Cornwall during the lifetime of
his brother King Richard I., who gave him the counties
of Cornwall, Nottingham and others, as is afferted by
Walter de Hemingburg.

John became King of England A.D. 1199.