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BURKE"S DICTIONARY OF THE EXTINCT, DORMANT, & ABEYANT PEERAGES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.
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This work, formed on a plan precisely similar to that of Mr. Burke"s popular Dictionary of the present Peerage and Baronetage, comprises those peerages which have been suspended or extinguished since the Conquest, particularising the members of each family in each generation, and bringing the lineage, in all possible cases, through either collaterals or females, down to existing houses. It connects, in many instances, the new with the old n.o.bility, and it will in all cases show the cause which has influenced the revival of an extinct dignity in a new creation. It should be particularly noticed, that this new work appertains nearly as much to extant as to extinct persons of distinction; for though dignities pa.s.s away, it rarely occurs that whole families do.
CONTENTS.
1. Peerages of England extinct by failure of issue, attainder, &c., alphabetically, according to Surnames.
2. Baronies by Writ--England--in abeyance, and still vested probably in existing heirs.
3. Extinct and Abeyant Peerages of England, according to t.i.tles.
4. Charters of Freedom--Magna Charta--Charter of Forests.
5. Roll of Battel Abbey.
6. Peerages of Ireland, extinct by failure of issue, attainder, &c., alphabetically, according to Surnames.
7. Baronies by Writ--Ireland--in abeyance.
8. Peerages of Ireland, extinct and abeyant, alphabetically, according to t.i.tles.
9. Peerages of Scotland, extinct by failure of issue, attainder, &c., alphabetically, according to Surnames.
10. Extinct Peerages of Scotland, alphabetically, according to t.i.tles.
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GENERAL PEPE"S NARRATIVE OF THE WAR IN ITALY, FROM 1847 to 1850; INCLUDING THE SIEGE OF VENICE.
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