B BACON No Peerage dignity ever existed of this name, yet the celebrated Sir Francis Bacon {Lord Keeper 1616-17, Lord Chancellor 1 617-18, who was, in 161 8, cr. Baron Verulam, and, in 1621, Viscount St. Albans), is very generally, though erroneously, spoken of as LORD BACON. C) See " St. Albans, " Viscountcy, cr. 1621, extinct 1626. BADENOCH i.e. " Lord of Badenoch " [S.], Alexander (Stewart), Earl of BucHAN [S.], ^c, (4th son of Robert II [S.]), is so styled. See "BucHAN, " Earldom of [S.], cr. 1374. i.e. " Badenoch or Gordon of Badenoch " Barony [S.] (Gordon), cr. apparently 1599, with the Marquessate of Huntly [S.] (which see), but not allowed therewith in 1838. i.e. " Badenoch, Lochaber, Strathnavon, " &?c., Barony [S.] (Gor- don), cr. 1684 with the Dukedom of Gordon [S.] (which see), extinct 1 836. BADLESMERE BARONY I. Bartholomew of Badlesmere, of Badlesmere and BY WRIT. Chilham Castle, Kent, s. and h. of Guncelin or Gun- (*) He is styled "Lord Bacon" in works published as early as 1658, 1661, 167 1, is'c. See N. & Q., 6th Ser., vol. x, p. 502. But see also N. & Q., 3rd Ser., vol. ii, p. 200, where it is stated " that persons holding the inferior offices [:.£■. inferior to the office of Chancellor] of Chief Judges in the Courts of Common Law were then called Lords, though not Peers, as Lord Coke, Lord Hailes and Lord Holt. " " Lord Hailes, " however, is not a case in point ; Sir David Dalrymple, Bart. [S.], being a Senator of the College of Justice, and having assumed that style in accordance with Scottish custom. The titles of all these, whom the Scotch call " Paper Lords, " will be found in Brunton and Haig's Historical Account of the Senators of the College ofjustice. (ex inform. H.Gough.)
