A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland; or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 |
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Abbot afterwards Earl afterwards Lord Archbishop Archbishop of York Archdeacon Arundel Attainted Baron Bart Bishop brother Castle Chester Chichester church Cornwall Coventry Dean Devonshire Dorset Durham Earl Marshal Earl of Pembroke earldom Edmund eldest Essex Exchequer Exeter Extinct Fitz Francis Gloucester Grey heir heiress heirs-male Hereford Herefordshire Howard Hugh Ireland issue-male July June Keeper Kent King CHARLES King EDWARD King GEORGE King GEORGE III King's Lincoln Lincolnshire Litchfield London Lord Chancellor Lord High Lord Privy Seal Lord Treasurer Marquis Middlesex Montagu Nicholas Northumberland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Pelham Philip Plantagenet Prebendary Privy Seal Queen Ralph reign Rochester Salisbury shire Sir George Sir John Sir Richard Sir Robert Sir Thomas Sir William Soame Jenyns Somerset St David's St Paul's Stafford Suffolk summons Surrey Sussex Townshend translated from St vacant vice Lord Viscount Walter Warwick wife Wiltshire Winchester Worcester Yorkshire
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Page x - They had, anciently, for the support of their state, the third penny out of the sheriff's court, issuing out of the pleas of the shire whereof they had their title, as in ancient times there were no counts or earls but had a county or shire for his earldom.
Page 144 - At coronations, he places the crown on the king's head ' ; and, wherever the court may be, the king and queen are the proper domestic parishioners of the archbishop.
Page 331 - By stat. 21, Henry VIII., he is to attend the King's person ; to manage the debates in Council ; to propose matters from the King at the Council ; and to report to the King the resolutions thereupon. The Treasury.
Page 454 - Britain, from time to time to nominate, constitute and appoint, during his or their pleasure, such members of the Privy Council (of whom the two principal secretaries of state and the chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being...
Page 153 - Wells, in 10ИЯ ; and from this, disputes arose between the monks of Bath and the canons of Wells, about the election of a bishop; but they were...
Page 231 - Kome eight saints and one cardinal ; and to the English nation one lord chief justice, five lord chancellors, three lord treasurers, one principal secretary of state, one chancellor to the university of Oxford, and two masters of the rolls.
Page x - E iris but had a county or shire for his Earldom : Afterwards, the number of Earls increasing, they took their title from some eminent town or village, or even from their own seat or park ; and some from illustrious families, as Salisbury, Peterborough, Stamford, Paulet, Cholmondeley, Ferrers, Waldegrave, Stanhope, Ashburnham, vfe.
Page 354 - May, 1630, there was a decree made, in a session of sewers, held at Boston, by Robert Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Edward Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, John...
Page x - His coronation robes are of crimson velvet lined with taffeta, and has four guards of ermine on the right side, and three on the left, set at equal distances, with gold lace above each guard, and tied up to the left shoulder by a white...
Page ix - III. before this dignity was introduced into England, when his eldest son, commonly called the Black Prince, was created Duke of Cornwall. The only ceremony at his investiture, was girding him with the sword.; When John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III. was created Duke of Lancaster, by the same Monarch, he had investiture, not only by the -King's girding him with the sword, but by putting on him a cap of fur, under a coronet of gold set with precious stones. In the twenty-first year of King Richard...