The English baronets Being a genealogical and historical account of their families. Containing I. A particular account of the institution of this order by King James the First; manner of creation, privileges precedence, &c. II. Their descents, creations, successions, marriages, and issue; as also the publick employments, and remarkable actions, both of them, and their ancestors: With the blazonry of their arms and crests; their mottoes, and seats, or places of residence. III. Correct lists; I. Of the present baronets in the order of precedence. II. Of those, who are now peers of Great-Britain, or Ireland. III. Of those foreigners, who have had this dignity conferr'd on them. IV. Of those whose titles are now extinct. IV. Exact tables of precedence; particularly with respect to the wives, sons, and daughters of baronets, and knights. V. A short account of the institution of the order of baronets of Nova Scotia, and those of Ireland. With an explanatory index of the terms in heraldry, referring to the arms. Illustrated with their coats of arms, curiously engraven on copper plates

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Wotton, Thomas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for Thomas Wotton, at the Three Daggers and Queen's-Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street 1727, 1727
Subjects:	Baronetage
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0956400101?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa