TITLEThe Shilling Peerage for 1875 Twenty First year of publication.This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. This scanned copy was retrieved from a badly damaged book. There was damage to the edge of the pages (have a look at the sample). Whilst every effort has been made to retain the content of the book some pages have damage to the end of the lines of printed text. It can be purchased:
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AUTHOREdward WALFORD (M: 1823 Feb 1 - 1897 Nov 20),M.A. LATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND FELLOW OF THE GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN |
PUBLISHEDROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY, WAnd all Booksellers in Town and Country 1875. |
DESCRIPTIONCONTAINING Alphabetical list of the House of Lords TOGETHER WITH THE Date of the Creation of each Title; the Birth, Accession, and Marriage of each Peer; his Heir Apparent or Presumptive; FAMILY NAME AND POLITICAL BIAS; AS ALSO A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE OFFICES WHICH HE HAS HITHERTO HELD; AND HIS COUNTRY RESIDENCE AND TOWN ADDRESS. WITH COMPLETE LISTS OF THE SCOTCH & IRISH PEERS, WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS ; OF PEERESSES IN THEIR OWN RIGHT ; OF PEERAGES IN THEIR ORDER OF CREATION, ETC. ETC. THE House of Lords or Peers (for the terms are used indifferently) is the second of the three bodies which together are said to compose the British legislature —King (or Queen), Lords, and Commons. Its origin, which in fact is that of the British Parliament, is involved in obscurity. The House of Lords must be regarded as the natural development of the state of things existing under the Feudal System, when the King ranked as but " primus inter pares," the first among his Peers or equals,* namely, the nobles who held their lands of the Crown by the tenure of military service. The very existence of the term "landlord," as used in the present time, is enough to show that in the earlier days of English history the ideas of territorial possession and nobility were closely connected ; and we find, as a matter of fact, that it was the tenure of certain lands which constituted a Noble of the Realm in the centuries immediately succeeding the Norman Conquest. |
LANGUAGE: English |
SAMPLEYou can examine a sample of the book in PDF form here. |
PROVISIONThis eBook is provided as a searchable PDF document (Acrobat format Document) and so you can search for names, places and items many of which are not indexed in the normal index. The Adobe™ Acrobat™ (.pdf) format requires the FREE Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader . Download and installation instructions for the Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader are on the Adobe™ website. This reader allows the viewing and printing of the book.There are 220 pages (including blanks, title and advertisng) in the original book. There is one PDF file, in black and white. 004428.pdf. This is the main body of the book. This file is approximately 17MB. |
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