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Presented to the LIBRARY o/f/ie UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO by TTTA^IO LEGISLATIVE h - 62 BARONIA ANGLICA CONCENTRATA; om, A CONCENTRATED ACCOUNT OF ALL THE BARONIES COMMONLY CALLED BARONIES IN FEE; DERIVING THEIR ORIGIN FROM WRIT OF SUMMONS TO PARLIAMENT, AND NOT FROM ANY SPECIFIC LIMITED CREATION. SHEWING THE DESCENT AND LINE OF HEIRSHIP AS WELL OF THOSE FAMILIES MENTIONED BY SIB WILLIAM DUGDALE, AS OF THOSE WHOM THAT CELEBRATED AUTHOR HAS OMITTED TO NOTICE. (Interspersed with interesting Notes, and explanatory remarks.) WHBB1TO 19 ADDED 2T()t IJvoofo of i),irltamrntan> J&ittfng, from the Reign of Edward I., to thai of Queen Anne. ALSO, A GLOSSARY OF DORMANT ENGLISH, SCOTCH, AND IRISH PEERAGE TITLES, WITH RBPBREHCB TO FBXSUKID BXIITIHO BIIKB. BY SIR T. C. BANKS, BART. W.S., Member of the Inner Temple, Law Genealogist, Author of the Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, Stemmata Anglicana, Honorcs Anglican!, History of the Marmyun Family, and other Genealogical works. VOL. II. RIPON: FEINTED FOB THE ATJTHOK BY WILLIAM HARBISON, MAEKET-FLACE. LONDON : SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL. MDCCCXLIII. 703* PREFACE. AFTER the publication of the Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, in 3 Vols. 4to. in the years 1807, 8, and 9, the interest which they had excited, led me to imagine that as not any account had theretofore been ever printed of many eminent persons who had been Summoned to Parliament, either as, or among the Earls and Barons of the realm, but whose names alone were to be found in Dugdale's Lists of Summons, without any mention of them in his History of the Baronage, it might be a desirable addition to the preceding Volumes, to bring them into notice, and with that view I published in 1825, a supplement intitled Stemmata Anglicana. a it is As Piracy, or Plagiarism among Authors has been pretty usual practice, not matter of surprise to me, that what I have brought forward should be adopted by any of them as their own thus whosoever shall peruse Mr. Burke's Octavo Edition, of what he is pleased to denominate the Dormant and Extinct Baronage, will find it almost a literatim Copy of my previous publication, and in such respect a base plagiarism, but when a man is destitute of gratitude to those who may have rendered him services, he is generally a stranger to the principles of honour. Yet as he has added to his work the Titles of the Dormant and Extinct Peerage of Scotland, and Ireland, I am most willing to due credit for that useful addition and had he corrected the I give him ; Errors may have committed, by following with too much confidence the authority of Dugdale, and other Heraldic Authors, he would have had my approbation, notwithstanding the his which he reconciles as a flagrancy of Piracy ; probably Highwayman would the had another's but if he himself was afterwards Robbery he made upon property ; robbed, he would complain of it as an heinous offence. So far with respect to Mr. Burke. I must now turn to a Gentleman of much higher note, of whom I would wish to say something more favourable than he deserves ii. PREFACE. who at my hands. I mean the learned, and indefatigable Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, having seen my Stemmata Anglicana, was pleased very speedily after to adopt its arrangement and contents, in a very considerable degree into a work of his own, intitled, " A Synopsis of the Peerage of England" and therein to incorporate a notice of those to the very persons of whom (as before observed) I was the first to give any account to cite : public. In his remarks on some of them, he condescends occasionally my name while in the others whom he mentions, he states that no Genealogical Author has given any account of them, though an account was to be found in the Stemmata from which he had plagiarised their Titles. As no Genealogical Author, according to his assertion had noticed them; it would have added much to his own credit to have been the first to have brought them forward, and have rendered his own work more novel and interest- ing the sinister motive for mentioning me in some instances, and omitting me in others where I might have had some credit for priority of information, requires no comment, as being too evident. Mr. Hunter in his Deanery of Doncaster, considers that the silence of Sir Harris Nicolas in his Synopsis, of that very eminent Statesman and Ecclesiastic, Sir John de Sandale, is much to be regretted. But had Mr. Hunter looked into my Stemmata, he might have seen an account of the subject of his lamentation. I will only add, that although I deem myself rather scurvily treated by Sir Harris, I give him with much pleasure, the highest commendation for his very many erudite, meritorious, and esti- mable publications. I must confess myself to have been greatly obliged to the late Sir George Nayler, Garter King of Arms, and to Sir William Woods, also Garter King of Arms, for the kind and friendly readiness with which they allowed me the inspection of their office books, which would have been to a more extended degree, had it not been circumvented by the malignant interposition of Mr. Francis Townshend, the then Windsor Herald, who owed me rather a better return for favors done to him and his Rev. Brother, Mr. Thomas father but this evil of the Herald is Townshend, by my ; spirit easily explained by my having communicated to him my intention of bringing out the History of the Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, after Dugdale's precedent. On this intima- tion, his Letter in answer said, that he himself had been for upwards of twenty years PREFACE. 111. contemplating the same work, but whenever he referred to his MSS. his Errors so stared him in the face, that he was deterred from the undertaking, and advised me against it. I however embarked in a Sea, where he was afraid to venture. To any other Members of the College of Arms I am not under the smallest obliga- tion unless it be when for the of some ; may purpose casting obloquy upon me, they have done me the honor to mention my name, thereby showing that I was an object of their notice. But their detraction I as little regard, as I would the ravings of disap- the of a at Calcutta. These pointed Placemen ; or howling madman Gentlemen of Arms are wel' known for the Harmony of their association, and kindly feelings towards each other. With reference to the Contents of this Volume, a portion of it was printed in the Stemmata Anglicana, but much is herein added, with appendixes not before published, together with many notes, and other elucidatory matter, which combined with the Con- tents of the other Volume, I trust will be found an aggregate of more general Interest to the public at large, than the Peerage Histories hitherto published have developed. T. C. BANKS. BARONIA ANGLICA CONCENTRATA. ORIGIN OF NOBILITY. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. With respect to the estate, which may be had in a title of honour, while the dignity was annexed to the land, and held by tenure, the person in possession of the estate, if he was tenant in fee simple, would, it is presumed, have an estate equal in dignity. These kind of territorial dignities, or land baronies, were anciently allowed to be * via. Mirror aliened by the possessor, provided such alienation was made with the king's licence.* his cites to this effect and Collins, in Parliamentary Precedents,f various examples ; f p . 114, lie, in his of the notices the same. 4 Dugdale, History Baronage,! + Voi*'l 385 * a^tii - As to dignities derived from writs of summons, they have generally been said to > in fee but this is an doctrine. be holden ; deemed erroneous A person having a $ Cruise on barony of this kind, is not tenant in fee simple of it : for, in that case, it would descend to the heirs general, lineal or collateral, of the person last seised : whereas a dignity of this species is only inheritable by such of the heirs as are lineally descended from the person first summoned to parliament, and not to any other of his heirs. It is, in fact, a kind of estate, not known to the law in any other respect or instance, excepting in that of an honour. These dignities, created by writ, (and the same rule applies to those created by All amerciaments were estreated into the exchequer, and were of a fixed amount. As he, who holdeth an entire 100 and for a Earldom, pounds ; a Baron barony, 100 marks. He who holdeth less, or more, according to the extent of the Tenure. And this defines the difference of rank between an Earl, a Baron, and a minor tenant, in capite. BARONIA ANGLICA CONCENTRATA. * Purbeck are unalienable an hereditament in the blood of the and his patent,*) ; being grantee case. Cor. Dom. Proc. descendants. And in the case of the barony of Grey of Ruthyn, in 1640, the house of anno 1678. " lords the resolution viz. which was of in t Lords' madef following ; Upon somewhat, spoken Journ. the argument, concerning a power of conveying away an honour, it was resolved upon the Vol. IV. in a p. 150. question, nemine contradicente, that no person that hath any honour him, and peer of this realm, may alien or transfer the honour to any other person." It was doubted formerly, whether a barony by writ was not extinguished by the acceptance of a new barony of the same name.

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