Taken from Leland, Itinerary IV, 160. On 2 April 1444 Henry VI did indeed bestow upon Henry Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, the `title, style and honour' of being the premier earl of England. But there is nothing in the grant about the Isle of Wight, and the claim that Beauchamp enjoyed a regal title there probably arose from a garbling of a subsequent clause entitling him to weara golden circlet on appropriate festal days; Reports ... touching the dignity of a peer of the realm V (1829), 242-3.