Creat. Names and Dignity. Forfeit. Rest. 1591 1661 O'Bryen, viscount Clare 1664 Macarty, viscount Mountcashel, and baron of Castle Inchy 1685 Dungan, earl of Limerick 1686 Talbot, earl of Tyrconnel 1728 1715 Wharton, marquess of Catherlugh, earl of Rathfarnham, and baron of Trim IRISH TITLES GRANTED BY KING JAMES II. AFTER HIS ABDICATION, NOT ALLOWED. 1689 Talbot, duke of Tyrconnel, extinct. 1689 Sarsfield, earl of Lucan, extinct. 1689 Brown, viscount Kenmare, and baron of Castle Rosse. 1689 Fitton, lord Gawsworth, extinct. 1689 Nugent, lord Riverston. 1689 Bourke, lord De Burgh, of Bophin, merged in the earldom of Clanricarde. ENGLISH AND IRISH PEERAGES CONFERRED OR RESTORED BY EACH OF OUR SOVEREIGNS DURING THEIR RESPECTIVE REIGNS. THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. INSTITUTED BY EDWARD III., 19 JANUARY 1344. THE habit and ensigns of the Order are a surcoat, garter, mantle, hood, george, collar, cap, and feathers; the first four were assigned by the founder, Edward III.; the others by Henry VIII. The motto on the garter and star is, HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (Evil be to him that evil thinks). The garter is of blue velvet, bordered with gold. The george is the figure of St. George on horseback, in armour, encountering a dragon with a tilting spear; the whole of gold, enamelled, and may be enriched with jewels, at the pleasure of the possessor; it is worn across the right shoulder, pendant to a dark or garter-blue riband. The collar is of gold, weighing thirty ounces, troy weight, and contains twenty-six garters, enamelled proper, in each a rose gules, and as many knots, enamelled white, to which is pendant the george, as above. Charles II. ordained that the knights should always, in public, wear, embroidered on the left side of their coats or cloaks, the cross of St. George, surrounded with the garter, with rays of silver, forming a star of eight points. At a chapter, held 3 June 1786, a new statute was passed, ordaining that in future the Order should consist of the sovereign and twenty-five knights, exclusive of the sons of his majesty, or his successors, who have been or shall be elected knights of the same most noble order. KNIGHTS OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. Charles Richard Sumner, D.D., lord bishop of Winchester, prelate of the Order. Thomas Burgess, D.D., lord bishop of Salisbury, chancellor, Sir George Nayler, knt., garter principal king of arms. THE MOST ANCIENT ORDER OF THE THISTLE. THIS ancient Order was instituted by king Achaius, the collar added by king James V., revived by king James II., in 1679, and re-established by Queen Anne, 31 Dec. 1703. 1714, king George I. confirmed the statutes of queen Anne, and several others, particularly that of making rays of glory to surround the figure of St. Andrew, which is suspended to the collar; and his majesty was pleased to order, that, in future, chapters of election should be held in the royal presence; and that the order should consist of the sovereign and twelve knights. By statute 8 May 1827, this number was extended to sixteen. The star is worn on the left side of the coat or cloak, and consists of a St. Andrew's cross of silver embroidery, with rays going out betwixt the points of the cross; on the middle thereof a thistle of gold and green, upon a field of green, and round the thistle and field a circle of gold, having on it the following motto of the order, in letters of green: NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT (No man provokes me with impunity). The badge or jewel is worn pendant to a green riband over the left shoulder, and tied under the arm; it consists of the image of St. Andrew, with the cross before, enamelled and chased on rays of gold, the cross and feet resting upon a ground of enamelled green; and on the back, enamelled on a green ground, a thistle, gold and green, the flower reddish, with the before-mentioned motto round. The collar consists of thistles, and sprigs of rue growing betwixt, and at the middle thereof, shall be hung before the image of St. Andrew, as above; the whole of gold enamelled. N. B. There being no installation of this Order, the Knight wears the collar and star immediately after his investiture. KNIGHTS OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE. OFFICERS IN THE ORDER OF PRECEDENCY. Dr. William-Lawrence Brown, dean of the Order. Lord Robert Ker, secretary. Robert Quarme, esq., gentleman usher of the green rod. THE MOST HONOURABLE MILITARY FROM very early times it appears to have been the custom of the kings of England, on certain high ceremonials of a pacific nature, as coronations, royal marriages, and the creation of their eldest sons princes of Wales, to create a number of Knights, who from the ceremony of bathing, which they went through on the vigil of their creation, were denominated Knights of the Bath. The earliest instance of which we have any distinct record, is the coronation of king Henry IV. 1399; and the most recent that of king Charles II. In the year 1725, king George I. revived the Order, and enacted statutes for its regulation, by which it was ordained to consist of the SOVEREIGN and 37 KNIGHTS COMPANIONS. The apparel to consist of a surcoat and mantle |