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Page 72 - It is ordered and adjudged by the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament assembled, that the said petition and appeal be, and is hereby, dismissed this House ; and that the said interlocutor therein complained of be, and the same is hereby, affirmed.
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Page 43 - ... to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, to examine the allegations thereof as to what relates to the petitioner's title therein mentioned, and to inform her Majesty how the same shall appear to their Lordships.
Page 105 - Some important observations will be found in it on the curious point of the illegitimacy of the sons of the titular King of Ireland.
Page 4 - Remarks upon Scotch Peerage Law, as connected with certain points in the late case of the Earldom of Devon ; to which are added, Desultory Observations upon the nature and descent of Scotch Peerages.
Page 42 - To the King's most excellent Majesty; The humble petition of Samuel Wilson...
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Page 3 - Glengarry" against the attacks made upon them in the Inverness Journal and some recent printed performances. With remarks as to the descent of the family who style themselves "of Clanronald.
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| Title | Reports of Claims Preferred to the House of Lords: In the Cases of the Cassillis, Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn Peerages... Reports of Claims Preferred to the House of Lords: In the Cases of the Cassillis, Sutherland, Spynie, and Glencairn Peerages, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
| Author | James Maidment |
| Contributor | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
| Edition | reprint |
| Published | 1882 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2006 |
| Length | 106 pages |
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