A Synopsis of the Peerage of England: Exhibiting, Under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Date of Creation, Descent and Present State of Every Title of Peerage which Has Existed in this Country Since the Conquest...J. Nichols and son, 1825 - Nobility |
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... Barons by Tenure are uniformly stated to have succeeded each other in a specified reign , because it was impossible always to give the exact year when each possessor of the Barony died ; and after one of the family was summoned to ...
... Barons by Tenure are uniformly stated to have succeeded each other in a specified reign , because it was impossible always to give the exact year when each possessor of the Barony died ; and after one of the family was summoned to ...
Page iv
... Barons as retained all the lands granted to their ances- tors to obtain a law by which they only should in future be ... Tenure had not , ex debito justitiæ , a right to a Writ of Summons to Parliament ; but it is neces- sary , in the first ...
... Barons as retained all the lands granted to their ances- tors to obtain a law by which they only should in future be ... Tenure had not , ex debito justitiæ , a right to a Writ of Summons to Parliament ; but it is neces- sary , in the first ...
Page vii
... Barons of the realm by Tenure , either of the Manors of Hameslake or Trusbut , or the Castle of Belvoir , each of which was held of the Crown in capite per Baroniam . The Manors of Hameslake and Trusout were then alienated ; but the ...
... Barons of the realm by Tenure , either of the Manors of Hameslake or Trusbut , or the Castle of Belvoir , each of which was held of the Crown in capite per Baroniam . The Manors of Hameslake and Trusout were then alienated ; but the ...
Page viii
... Tenure of the Castle of Belvoir did or did not confer a Barony on its possessor ) , must , however , be considered ... Barons , if that right had depended solely upon the Tenure of Lands ( a fact which the Committee apprehend will ...
... Tenure of the Castle of Belvoir did or did not confer a Barony on its possessor ) , must , however , be considered ... Barons , if that right had depended solely upon the Tenure of Lands ( a fact which the Committee apprehend will ...
Page xv
... tenure of land , from the time when summonses for that purpose are regularly preserved to the reign of James the ... Barons by Tenure ; or , 2dly , That claims of that nature were urged , and perhaps admitted , but no record of such ...
... tenure of land , from the time when summonses for that purpose are regularly preserved to the reign of James the ... Barons by Tenure ; or , 2dly , That claims of that nature were urged , and perhaps admitted , but no record of such ...
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1st Baron 1st Earl Anno April attainted Baroness BARONS BY TENURE BARONS BY WRIT Bart Beauchamp Berkeley brother and heir Castle Charles circa Created Baron Created Duke Created Earl Created Viscount daughters and coheirs died dignity Dugdale Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal Earldom Edward Edward III eldest Elizabeth failing his issue George grandson and heir Grey heir apparent heirs male Henry Henry VI Henry VIII honors became Extinct Howard Hugh Ireland issue male John John de Sutton July June King last Baron last Earl Lord Lovel March married Mons'r never Summ Nevill Parl Patent Percy Plantagenet Powis Present Baron Present Earl Ralph Richard Robert Rolls of Parliament Scotland Scrope Sept Sire sister and heir sole heir Stafford succeeded Summ summoned to Parliament Thomas title became Extinct TRIERS TRIERS OF PETITIONS Vide VIII VISCOUNTCY William Writ of Summons
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Page vi - Esq. Whereupon, his Majesty was pleased to order in council, that the cause should be heard by the Privy Council, on the 19th January, 1669, when the two Chief Justices and the Lord Chief Baron were ordered to attend. The Counsel for the said Robert Cheeke affirmed, that...
Page xiv - A right to be summoned to parliament by reason of " tenure, of any land denominated at any time a barony, " does not appear by any document which the committee " have discovered, to have been asserted in the reign of
Page lxiv - That no Peer of this realm can drown or extinguish his honour (but that it descend to his descendants), neither by surrender, grant, fine, nor any other conveyance to the King...
Page lxiv - Attorney-General, are unanimously of opinion, and do resolve and adjudge, that no fine now levied nor at any time hereafter to be levied to the King can bar such title of honour, or the right of any person claiming such title under him that levied or shall levy such fine.
Page 265 - Another dignity attributed to the dukes of Beaufort is the " viscouuty of Grosmont," but it has baffled the editor's research to discover the source whence that title is derived. Dale takes no notice of any such dignity ; and the only trace of a title at all similar is that recited in the commission juat noticed, wherein he is styled baron Beaufort, of Caldecot, Grismond, and Gower.
Page 790 - A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the great Councils and Parliaments of this Realm, from the 49th of King Henry III. until these present Times, SK.
Page 186 - King, for certainly the weight of authority at that time was all . in favour of the measure. In the Third Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the Dignity of a Peer (1822) it is stated : The committee find it has been asserted that the persons to whom dignities have been granted by the Crown have usually had therein rights of inheritance, although in some...
Page xlvi - Barony devolves on the surviving daughter, or the heir of her body. If, however, the representation of such daughter be among her co-heirs, the dignity falls into abeyance among them...
Page 11 - To the merit of sedulous care, of rigid impartiality, and to having acted upon the resolution of not stating a single word which he did not believe to be strictly true, with the view of flattering the pride, or gratifying the ambition of others, he conscientiously feels that he is entitled ; and many instances will be found where dignities which by every previous writer have been attributed to different noble families, are in these pages proved either to be now vested in other individuals, to have...
Page xlvi - Barony, is indivisible.* Thus, if a Baron leaves no son, the honour becomes vested in his daughters ; if he has only one daughter, she succeeds to it. but if there be more daughters than one, the title falls into ABEYANCE amongst them, and continues in that state either until all but one of the daughters be deceased without issue, or the sole heir of only one daughter survives ; in which case the Barony devolves on the surviving daughter, or the heir of her body. If, however, the representation of...