Definition of "earls" []

• Plural form of earl. (noun)

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• "**] It also appears that the aldermen or governors of counties, who, after the Danish times, were often called earls, [***] [7] were admitted into this council, and gave their consent to the public statutes."
• "There came to meet them men from those realms, and said that the earls were a short way off with a great host."
• "If this is so, the declaration of the earls is the first clear evidence we have that the barons of England were beginning to realize their legal right of resistance and to get sight of the great principle which was so soon to give birth to the constitution."