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 - England |
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... Writ is shewn by the numerals , which commence again with the person so summoned , though the figures are con- tinued ; for example in the Barony of DESPENCER , the first five Barons by Tenure are marked merely by Roman numerals , be ...
... Writ is shewn by the numerals , which commence again with the person so summoned , though the figures are con- tinued ; for example in the Barony of DESPENCER , the first five Barons by Tenure are marked merely by Roman numerals , be ...
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... BARONS BY WRIT . II . 1690. 3. Charles Boyle , s . and h . Summoned to Parl . in his father's BARONY OF CLIFFORD OF LANES- BOROUGH in 1689 ; ob . vitâ patris , 1694 . III . 1694. 4. Charles Boyle , s . and h . claimed a Writ of Summons ...
... BARONS BY WRIT . II . 1690. 3. Charles Boyle , s . and h . Summoned to Parl . in his father's BARONY OF CLIFFORD OF LANES- BOROUGH in 1689 ; ob . vitâ patris , 1694 . III . 1694. 4. Charles Boyle , s . and h . claimed a Writ of Summons ...
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... Barons of the realm before the 23 Edw . I. and which , if it then ' entitled their possessor to a Writ of Sum- mons to Parliament , could not have ceased to have that effect when it descended to those who at that time inherited them ...
... Barons of the realm before the 23 Edw . I. and which , if it then ' entitled their possessor to a Writ of Sum- mons to Parliament , could not have ceased to have that effect when it descended to those who at that time inherited them ...
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... Barons who were opposed to the royal cause ; the earliest Writ which is selected for the purpose of investigating how many of those included in it were Barons by Tenure , and also whether all who were deemed by Dugdale to have been Barons ...
... Barons who were opposed to the royal cause ; the earliest Writ which is selected for the purpose of investigating how many of those included in it were Barons by Tenure , and also whether all who were deemed by Dugdale to have been Barons ...
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... Writ of 23 Edward I. did not hold lands per Baroniam , and who conse- quently were never before considered as Barons of the Realm . If therefore every person seised of lands per Baro . niam was , as has been contended , entitled to ...
... Writ of 23 Edward I. did not hold lands per Baroniam , and who conse- quently were never before considered as Barons of the Realm . If therefore every person seised of lands per Baro . niam was , as has been contended , entitled to ...
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1st Baron ABEYANCE April attainted Baroness BARONS BY TENURE BARONS BY WRIT Bart Basset Beauchamp Bergavenny Berkeley Bourchier brother and heir Castle Charles circa coheir Created Baron Created Duke Created Earl Created Viscount Darcy daughters descendants died dignity Dugdale Earl of Arundel Earl of Chester Earl of Essex Earldom Edward Edward III eldest Elizabeth failing his issue Ferrers Fitz-Alan George grandson and heir Grey H.III Hastings heirs male Henry Henry VI Henry VIII honors became Extinct Howard Hugh Ireland issue male James John de Sutton July June King L'Isle last Baron last Earl Lord Lovel married never Summ Nevill Patent Plantagenet Powis Present Baron Present Earl Ralph Richard Robert Rolls of Parliament Scotland Sept sister and heir sole heir Somerset succeeded Summ summoned to Parliament Thomas title became Extinct Vide VIII VISC VISCOUNTCY William Writ of Summons
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Page xiii - Grubstreet had existed from Time, whereof the Memory of Man was not to the contrary, and for all that Time had enjoyed and used the Privilege of being dull.
Page xxxiv - Lords, for the precise point of right; and yet so much was shewn and alleged on each part, as in the opinion of the House (if it might stand with the King's good pleasure and grace) made them both capable and worthy of honour. It was therefore moved, and so agreed, that information should be given unto the King's Majesty of all the proceedings of the said court...
Page xlvii - ... he inherited the dignity, or his issue : failing which, to his aunts and their issue — the females of each generation being preferred to the males of the preceding generation. On the failure of the issue of a Baron who inherited a dignity from his mother, and also of the other issue of his mother, the dignity, of course, devolves on his maternal ancestors or their descendants.
Page 266 - Collins, 14 that there is remaining In the signet office a bill under the royal sign manual at Oxford (if a patent did not pass the Great Seal thereupon). In order to his being created earl of Glamorgan and baron Beaufort, of Caldecot Castle, In the county of Monmouth.
Page 380 - VI. granted to John Talbot, lord of the manor of Kingston-Lisle in Berks, that he and his heirs, lords of the said manor, should be peers of the realm, by the title of barons of Lisle; here John Talbot had a base or qualified fee in that dignity, and the instant he or his heirs quitted the seigniory of this manor the dignity was at an end.
Page lxv - Oxford, 1826. ture, being the first that was ever so created ; the lawyers then declaring that the delivery of the letters patent was sufficient without any ceremony." * On the death of his first wife, he sought a lady of a higher position, and was successful, in November, 1617, in obtaining the hand of the beautiful and high born Lady Lucy Percy, daughter of Henry, Earl of Northumberland.
Page lxvi - The practice of granting annuities of this kind has long since ceased. § 72. In the case of letters patent, the creation is perfect and complete, as soon as the great seal is put to the patent ; in consequence of the following clause, which is inserted in all patents of this kind : Et quod...
Page lxxiii - ... which the King had ; so that, in fact, a county palatine was, in every respect, a feudal kingdom of itself, but held of a superior lord...
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 lxvii - ... her body by the said earl, the said honour, title, and dignity shall go, and be held and enjoyed, from time to time, by such of the said co-heirs, as by course of descent at the common law should be inheritable to other entire and indivisible inheritances, as, namely, an office of honour, and public trust, or a castle for the necessary defence of the realm, or the like ; in case any such inheritance was given, or limited to the said Mary, and the heirs of her body by the said earl begotten.