...improbable that any claim of a dignity by the tenure of lands will ever be admitted in this country. In the Reports of the Lords' Committees on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm, almost every statement on the subject admits of a conclusion against the existence of dignities by...

...occasion, is given in Dugdale's List of Summonses, and reprinted in the Appendix to the first Report of the Lords' Committees on the dignity of a Peer of the Realm, with the observation, that " the original is not now to be found." The Lists in the text have been...

...were thereupon ordered to certify to the chancellor whether he held by entire barony. — Rot. Par/, vol. ii. pp. 19, 20. The ancestors of this John de...the Reports of the Lords' Committees on the Dignity if a Peer of the Realm, that after the 23rd Edw. I., persons who held lands by barony and in chief...

...far greater part has been printed before, either in the Rolls of Parliament, or in the Appendix to the Reports of the Lords Committees on the dignity of a Peer of the Realm, and that considerable sums are still disbursed in completing the Index to the old edition of the Rolls...

...of one hundred and forty pages have before been printed at the public cost either in the Appendix to the Reports of the Lords' Committees on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm, in the " Fcedera," or in the " Rolls of Parliament." The Lords' Committees and the Record Commission...

...charge in two other works, namely, in the " Parliamentary Writs," and in the Appendix to the Report of the Lords' Committees on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm ; and it has happened, as in the case of the Barons' Letter to the Pontiff, that the same article has...

...charge in two other works, namely, in the " Parliamentary Writs," and in the Appendix to the Report of the Lords' Committees on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm ; and it has happened, as in the case of the Barons' Letter to the Pontiff, that the same article has...

...far greater part has been printed before, either in the Rolls of Parliament, or in the Appendix to the Reports of the Lords Committees on the dignity of a Peer of the Realm, and that considerable sums are still disbursed in completing the Index to the old edition of the Rolls...

...unacquainted. That no new light has been thrown on the subject, must be admitted by every person who has read the Reports of the Lords' Committees on the dignity of a Peer of the Realm ,* for, while all proper respect is paid to those compilations, and whilst the labour which has been...

...have been lately printed by command of the House of Lords, and form the Appendix to the Fifth Report of the Lords' Committees on the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm. with the history or government of this country, or with the most distinguished personages of the thirteenth,...