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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... became Extinct in that line in 1400 , and in the same year Humphry Stafford styled himself Earl of Buckingham , and became the sixth Earl ; in 1441 he was raised to the dignity of Duke of Buckingham , and he is consequently marked EARLS ...
... became Extinct in that line in 1400 , and in the same year Humphry Stafford styled himself Earl of Buckingham , and became the sixth Earl ; in 1441 he was raised to the dignity of Duke of Buckingham , and he is consequently marked EARLS ...
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... Extinct 1825 . Vide WHITWORTH ( Addenda ) . BEXLEY . I. 1823. 1. Nicholas Vansittart ; Created Baron Bexley of ... became Extinct . BARON BY WRIT . CLIFFORD . I. 1628. 1. Henry Clifford , son and heir apparent of Fran- cis IV . - 4th ...
... Extinct 1825 . Vide WHITWORTH ( Addenda ) . BEXLEY . I. 1823. 1. Nicholas Vansittart ; Created Baron Bexley of ... became Extinct . BARON BY WRIT . CLIFFORD . I. 1628. 1. Henry Clifford , son and heir apparent of Fran- cis IV . - 4th ...
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... became Extinct , but this Barony devolved on I. 1643. 2. Elizabeth , his daughter and sole heir ; she married Richard Boyle , Earl of Cork , in Ire- land , who was in consequence created BARON CLIFFORD OF LANESBOROUGH , by Patent to him ...
... became Extinct , but this Barony devolved on I. 1643. 2. Elizabeth , his daughter and sole heir ; she married Richard Boyle , Earl of Cork , in Ire- land , who was in consequence created BARON CLIFFORD OF LANESBOROUGH , by Patent to him ...
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... died vitâ patris , he likewise became Duke of Queens- berry , & c . in Scotland . P. 205. Robert de Vere , Earl of ... became Extinct , P. 289. 1. 4. for " being s . and h . of Henry Grey ( ob . v . p . ) " * Cruise on Dignities , p ...
... died vitâ patris , he likewise became Duke of Queens- berry , & c . in Scotland . P. 205. Robert de Vere , Earl of ... became Extinct , P. 289. 1. 4. for " being s . and h . of Henry Grey ( ob . v . p . ) " * Cruise on Dignities , p ...
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... became Extinct . Richard Beauchamp , XIV . - 12th Earl of War- wick ; Created Earl of Albemarle for life 1417 ; K. G .; ob . 1439 , when this Earldom again DUKES . became Extinct . III.1660 . 1.George Monk ; Created Baron Monk of ...
... became Extinct . Richard Beauchamp , XIV . - 12th Earl of War- wick ; Created Earl of Albemarle for life 1417 ; K. G .; ob . 1439 , when this Earldom again DUKES . became Extinct . III.1660 . 1.George Monk ; Created Baron Monk of ...
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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 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.