This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... DIGNITY AND PEECEDENCE. "THE PRIMOGENITURE, AND DUE OF BIRTH, PREROGATIVE OF AGE, CROWNS, SCEPTRES, LAURELS, BUT BY DEGREE STAND IN AUTHENTIC PLACE." SERIES ORDINUM. In the united monarchies of Great Britain and Ireland, as in all the other royal and imperial states in Europe, the Families constituting the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... DIGNITY AND PEECEDENCE. "THE PRIMOGENITURE, AND DUE OF BIRTH, PREROGATIVE OF AGE, CROWNS, SCEPTRES, LAURELS, BUT BY DEGREE STAND IN AUTHENTIC PLACE." SERIES ORDINUM. In the united monarchies of Great Britain and Ireland, as in all the other royal and imperial states in Europe, the Families constituting the Aristocracy are divided into two classes, namely, the Nobiles Majores, and the Nobiles Minores. The Nobiles Majores, or High Nobility, comprise the following six Orders or Degrees of Dignity Hereditary, viz.: --Principes. I. DUKES. II. MARQUESSES.. HI. EAKLS. Domini. IV. VISCOUNTS. V. LORD-BARONS. VL BARONETS. The Nobiles Minores, t'. e. the Lesser Nobility or Gentry, consist of the following ranks: --Armigeri. I. ESQUIRES BY BLOOD. II. ESQUIRES BY PRESCRIPTION. III. ESQUIRES BY PATENT. Nobiles. IV. GENTLEMEN BY BLOOD. V. GENTLEMEN BY PATENT. VL GENTLEMEN BY COURT ARMOUR. "Though all these," says that eminent writer on Precedency, Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Advocate of Scotland (who died in 1691, and of whom it is recorded on his tomb, that " he was the glory of his country, the champion of religion, the patron of justice, a strenuous assertor of the Royal prerogatire, and a shining ornament to the Faculty of Advocates, both for his perfect knowledge of the law and his eloquent pleadings"), "be not peers of Parliament, yet they are all peers to one another; and thus a gentleman may be offered to a duke's daughter whose ward and marriage falls to the King, as has often been decided, nor can the match be refused upon the account of inequality; and it hath been found that though noblemen must be judged by their peers, yet landed gentlemen may pass upon their assize; and a nobleman is obliged to accept a challenge from a gentleman as his peer where...
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