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SIR BERNARD BURKE'S (Ulster King of Arms) PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE for
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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.
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