DISCREPANCIES IN DUGDALE'S ACCOUNT OF SIR RALPH DE COBHAM

There are some difficulties in Dugdale's account of the Cobham family which it may be well to bring before your readers; especially as several other historians and genealogists have repeated Dugdale's account without remarking on its inconsistencies. In speaking of a junior branch of the family, he says, in vol. ii. p. 69., "There was also Ralphe de Cobham, brother of the first-mentioned Stephen." He only mentions one Stephen but names him twice, first at page 66., and again at 69. Perhaps he meant the *above*-mentioned Stephen. He continues:— "This Ralphe took to wife Mary Countess of Norfolk…