RY
OF HER TRAVELS IN BARBARY.
2 vols., post 8vo.
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FRESTON TOWER;
OR, THE EARLY DAYS OF CARDINAL WOLSEY.
BY THE REV. RICHARD COBBOLD.
3 vols., post 8vo., with Illustrations.
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A CHEAPER EDITION OF
BURKE'S
HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY;
FOR 1850.
A Genealogical Dictionary
OF THE WHOLE OF THE UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND:
And comprising Particulars of 100,000 Individuals connected with them.
CORRECTED TO THE PRESENT TIME.
=A COMPANION TO ALL THE PEERAGES.=
In 2 volumes, royal 8vo., beautifully printed in double columns,
comprising more matter than 30 ordinary volumes, price only _2l. 2s._
elegantly bound in gilt morocco cloth.
*** The great cost (upwards of L6000) attending the production of this
National Work, the first of its kind, induces the Publisher to hope that
the heads of all Families recorded in its pages will supply themselves
with copies.
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The Landed Gentry of England are so closely connected with the stirring
records of its eventful history, that some acquaintance with them is a
matter of necessity with the legislator, the lawyer, the historical
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will prompt to a desire to trace the origin and progress of those
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This work furnishes such a mass of authentic information in regard to
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attempted to be brought together. It relates to the untitled families of
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fact, a peerage of the untitled aristocracy. It embraces the whole of
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"A work of this kind is of a national value. Its utility is not merely
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in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical
history, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and
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