This untraced early drawing is remarked by WMR as having been executed in November 1840.
It represented William, Count de Warenne of Normandy âdictating, it would seem, the signing
of the Magna Chartaâ in 1215 (see
WMR,
Family
Letters, I. 87.). For his service in the battle of Hastings, William the
Conqueror rewarded him with extensive land in Norfolk and created him the first Earl of Surrey.
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This untraced early drawing is remarked by WMR as having been executed in November 1840. It represented William, Count de Warenne of Normandy âdictating, it would seem, the signing of the Magna Chartaâ in 1215 (see WMR, Family Letters, I. 87.). For his service in the battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror rewarded him with extensive land in Norfolk and created him the first Earl of Surrey.