H. E. S.

Tewkesbury.

_Richard Fitz-Alan, ninth Earl of Arundel._--Can any one tell me why

Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, who married Eleanora,

daughter of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, relict of Henry Lord

Beaumont, received the _sobriquet_ of "Richard with the Copped Hat?"