CONTENTS Page. DEDICATION v PREFACE vii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xxvi EXPLANATION AND ABBREVIATIONS xxxiii EDITOR'S NOTE xxxviii THE PEERAGE alphabetically arranged AB ADAM I BASING 449 CHART PEDIGREE OF BARRY 451 APPENDICES A SOME OBSERVATIONS ON EARLY IRISH BARONIES ... 457 B THE DUKEDOM OF CHATELLERAULT 465 C PRECEDENCY OF PEERS IN PARLIAMENT BY ROYAL PREROGA- TIVE 469 D PRECEDENCY ANOMALOUSLY ALLOWED 472 E SCOTTISH PEER-GES FORFEITED AFTER THE RISINGS OF 1715 AND 1745 AND SUBSEQUENT RESTOR.TIONS .... 475 F JACOBITE PEERAGES 480 G ELDEST SONS OF PEERS SUMMONED TO PARLIAMENT CP. IN ONE OF THEIR FATHER'S PEER.'^.GES 489 H AMUSEMENTS OF MEN OF FASHION IN 1782 496 I POLITICS OF PEERS 499 J GR.'^NT OF THE COMTE OF AUMALE TO RICHARD, EARL OF WARWICK S°3
