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* * * * [Transcriber's Note: The following advertisements were at the beginning of the original text but have been moved here for ease of reading.] LONDON: HARRISON, Bookseller to the Queen, 59, PALL MALL. * * * * * [Illustration] SIR BERNARD BURKE'S (Ulster King of Arms) PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE for 1860. In 1 Vol., royal 8vo., Price 38s., 22nd Edition. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION--(Short History of the Peerage and Baronetage--rights and privileges--and origin; engravings and heraldic descriptions of the Royal Crown and the Coronets of the Nobility) Royal Family. Kings of Scotland. House of Guelph. Peers entitled to quarter the Plantagenet Arms DICTIONARY--Including the Peerage and Baronetage of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and the United Kingdom. Scale of Precedence. Spiritual Lords. Foreign titles of Nobility borne by British Subjects. Peerages recently extinct. Peerages claimed. Surnames of Peers and Peeresses, with Heirs Apparent and Presumptive. Courtesy Titles of Eldest Sons. Peerage of the Three Kingdoms, collectively, in order of Precedence. Baronets in order of Precedence. Privy Councils of England and Ireland. Orders of Knighthood: Garter, Thistle, St. Patrick, Bath, St. Michael and St. George, and Guelphic. Knights Bachelors. Mottoes Translated, with Illustrations. Seats and Mansions of Peers and Baronets, alphabetically arranged. Daughters of Peers married to Commoners. * * * * * "The best genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage."--_Globe._ "For the amazing quantity of personal and family history, admirable arrangements of details, and accuracy of information, this genealogical and heraldic dictionary is without a rival. It is now the standard and acknowledged book of reference upon all questions touching pedigree."--_Morning Post._ "Nowhere else is there to be found so full an account of the families of men newly admitted in the Peerage or the Baronetage. * * * * The minutest change to the date of Publication will be found recorded in this Volume, which is in fact a Peerage and Baronetage, not only beyond comparison with any other book of the same class extent, but while it remains as it now is, perfect of its kind above all risk from any future competition."--_Examiner._ "The book combines, in one volume, and at one vie
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