Associated Places: Great Britain / Subject Terms: Nobility -- Great Britain.

1. The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich.

Date:: [approximately 1825]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet : hand-colored engraving, on linen ; 51 x 41 cm, folded (in slipcase) to 17 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

2. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A letter to Isaac Tomkins, gent., author of the Thoughts upon the aristocracy. And a letter to John Richards ... / from Peter Jenkins.

Creator:: Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778–1868
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Anecdotes of the aristocracy : and episodes in ancestral story / by J. Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 4 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Thoughts upon the aristocracy of England. Part the first / by Isaac Tomkins, gent.

Creator:: Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778–1868
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 23 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Sharpe's peerage of the British Empire : exhibiting its present state, and deducing the existing descents from the ancient nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Creator:: Sharpe, John, 1777–1860
Date:: 1833]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

Creator:: Barlow, Frederick
Date:: 1772-1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

Creator:: George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:: 1714-1716
Physical Description:: 1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Thoughts on the ladies of the aristocracy/ by Lydia Tomkins ...

Creator:: Tomkins, Lydia
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 58 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The present peerage of the United Kingdom : with the arms of the peers and baronets ; to which are prefixed, the established order of precedency, and an English translation of the mottos ; and subjoined is a list of the baronets of Great Britain, with reference to their arms.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 179 pages, 80, 37 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

Creator:: Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland / by John Burke ... and John Bernard Burke...

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [5], 637, [1], 599-603, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The peerage of England : or, An historical and genealogical account of the present nobility : containing the descent, original creations, and most remarkable actions of them and their respective ancestors : also, the chief titles of honour, and preferment they now enjoy ... To which is prefix'd An introduction to the present royal family of Great Britain ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1710
Physical Description:: [10], 408, 158 p., [2] leaves of plates : portraits, coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The dormant and extinct baronage of England, or, An historical and genealogical account of the lives, public employments, and most memorable actions of the English nobility who have flourished from the Norman conquest to ... 1806 ... / by T.C. Banks ...

Creator:: Banks, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1765–1854
Date:: 1807-1837
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Kearsley's Complete peerage, of England, Scotland, and Ireland : together with an extinct peerage of the three kingdoms, list of all their family names, titles of elder sons, &c. and translation of their mottos.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXII [1772]
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A synopsis of the peerage of England : exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the date of creation, descent and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the conquest ... / by Nicholas Harris Nicolas.

Creator:: Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799–1848
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. "We can't afford it!" : being thoughts upon the aristocracy of England. Part the second / by Isaac Tomkins, gent.

Creator:: Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778–1868
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 23 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility ... / deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities by William Dugdale ...

Creator:: Dugdale, William, 1605–1686
Date:: 1675-1676
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A biographical peerage of the Empire of Great Britain : in which are memoirs and characters of the most celebrated persons of each family.

Creator:: Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762–1837
Date:: 1808-1817
Physical Description:: 4 v. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Collins's Peerage of England : genealogical, biographical, and historical / greatly augmented, and continued to the preent time, by Sir Egerton Brydges ...

Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 9 v. : coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive ... By the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

Creator:: Barlow, Frederick
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 2 v.: front., ports., 25 numb. pl. (coats of arms) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The patrician.

Physical Description:: 6 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A letter to Isaac Tomkins and Peter Jenkins on primogeniture / by Timothy Winterbottom.

Creator:: Winterbottom, Timothy
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 32 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 12 v. in 6 : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families : with genealogical tables, and engravings of their coats of arms ... / by the Rev. William Betham ...

Creator:: Betham, William, 1749–1839
Date:: 1801-1805
Physical Description:: 5 v. : coats of arms, geneal. tables ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A complete history of English peerage : from the best authorities / by William Guthrie ... ; illustrated with elegant copper-plates of the arms of the nobility, blazoned in the heralds-office, by the proper officers, copper-plates of the premiers in their parliamentary robes ; and at the conclusion of the history of each family, vignets, and other ornaments, proper for the subject.

Creator:: Guthrie, William, 1708–1770
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

Creator:: Glover, Robert, 1544–1588
Date:: 1608
Physical Description:: [6], 190, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of that kingdom ... : collected from records, old wills, authentic manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities, which are cited / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : coats of arms ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

Creator:: Willement, Thomas, 1786–1871
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [5], viii-x, [2], 116 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, & Scotland, extinct, dormant, & in abeyance / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: 795 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The English baronets : being a genealogical and historical account of their families ... : with an explanatory index of the terms in heraldry, referring to the arms ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1727
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The romance of the peerage, or Curiosities of family history. By George Lillie Craik.

Creator:: Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798–1866
Date:: 1848-1850
Physical Description:: 4 v. ports., geneal. tables 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A supplement to the fifth edition of Collins's Peerage of England : containing a general account of the marriages, births, promotions, deaths, &c. ... in each family, from that publication, in the year 1779, to the present time : also, genealogical and historical accounts of those families which have been advanced to the English peerage ... since that period ... faithfully collected from authentic pedigrees in possession of the families or registered in the House of Lords records ... and other authorities which are cited / by B. Longmate ...

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1784
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 435, [9] p., [34] leaves of plates : coats of arms ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The baronetage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... : to which is added an account of such Nova Scotia baronets as are of English families and a dictionary of heraldry ... / by E. Kimber and R. Johnson ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: 3 v. : coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Debrett's illustrated peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Physical Description:: v. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: lxv, 869 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Burke's peerage & baronetage / Charles Mosley, editor-in-chief.

Date:: c1999
Physical Description:: 2 v. : coats of arms ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1854-55
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., plates, coats of arms. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire, by John Burke, esq.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) illus. (coats of arms) 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Vicissitudes of families, and other essays. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: vi, 437 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Dod's peerage.

Physical Description:: v. 13 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant / by G. E. C.

Creator:: Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825–1911
Date:: 1910-1959
Physical Description:: 13 v. in 14 : geneal. tables ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. Webster's royal red book or court and fashionable register for ...

Physical Description:: v. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1969]
Physical Description:: 12, 642 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

51. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke ...

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: x, 636 p. front., coats of arms. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain. By John Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1852-53
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., plates, coats of arms. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

53. The new extinct peerage, 1884-1971; containing extinct, abeyant, dormant & suspended peerages with genealogies and arms [by] L. G. Pine.

Creator:: Pine, L. G. (Leslie Gilbert), 1907–
Date:: 1973
Physical Description:: xxvii, 313 p. coats of arms. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

54. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 2 v. (1267 p.) coats of arms. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. Ancestral jewels / Diana Scarisbrick.

Creator:: Scarisbrick, Diana
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: 191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

56. Family romance; or, Episodes in the domestic annals of the aristocracy. By J. Bernard Burke ...

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 2 v. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

57. Debrett's peerage and titles of courtesy.

Physical Description:: v. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

58. Vicissitudes of families.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: xix, 444 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

59. Titles and forms of address : a guide to correct use.

Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: [208] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

60. The pocket peerage of Great Britain and Ireland; with genealogical and historical notices of the families of the nobility; the archbishops and bishops; a list of titles of courtsey; a baronetage of the United Kingdom; The Privy Council, &c. by Henry Rumsey Forster.

Creator:: Forster, Henry Rumsey, 1815–1884
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xviii, 550 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

61. Our old nobility. By Noblesse Oblige [pseud.]

Creator:: Evans, Howard
Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: 2 v. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

62. Index of baronetage creations; a catalogue of the baronets of this Kingdom of England from the first erection of that dignity to this time. Compiled by C. J. Parry.

Index of baronetage creations; a catalogue of the baronets of this Kingdom of England from the first erection of that dignity to this time. Compiled by C. J. Parry.

Creator:: Parry, C. J
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: 177 p. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

63. Le Neve's pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne. Ed. by George W. Marshall.

Creator:: Le Neve, Peter, 1661–1729
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: ix, 546 p., 1 l. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

64. Burke's peerage and baronetage.

Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: xv, 2949 p. : coats of arms ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. Vicissitudes of families, by Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: 2 v. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

66. A second series of vicissitudes of families / by Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 436 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

67. The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire for 1881 / By Joseph Foster.

Creator:: Foster, Joseph, 1844–1905
Date:: 1881?
Physical Description:: 2 v. : coats of arms. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

68. Debrett's House of commons. Illustrated with ... armorial engravings.

Physical Description:: illus. 19-27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

69. Titles and forms of address; a guide to their correct use.

Creator:: Armiger, pseud
Date:: [1966]
Physical Description:: xi, 162 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

70. Debrett's correct form.

Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: vii, 375 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

71. Titled Elizabethans; a directory of Elizabethan state and church officers and knights, with peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1558-1603 [by] Arthur F. Kinney.

Titled Elizabethans; a directory of Elizabethan state and church officers and knights, with peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1558-1603 [by] Arthur F. Kinney.

Creator:: Kinney, Arthur F., 1933–
Date:: 1973
Physical Description:: ix, 89 p. port. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

72. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 644 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

73. Tudor and Jacobean jewellery / Diana Scarisbrick.

Creator:: Scarisbrick, Diana
Date:: c1995
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

74. Peerage and pedigree; studies in peerage law and family history. By J. Horace Round ...

Creator:: Round, John Horace, 1854–1928
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: 2 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

75. The official baronage of England : showing the succession, dignities, and offices of every peer from 1066 to 1885, with sixteen hundred illustrations / by James E. Doyle.

Creator:: Doyle, James E. (James Edmund), 1822–1892
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: 3 v. illus. (incl. ports., coats of arms, facsims.) 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

76. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: lxiv, 1011, 31 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

77. The knights of England; a complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors. Incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, compiled by G. D. Burtchaell.

The knights of England; a complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors. Incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland, compiled by G. D. Burtchaell.

Creator:: Shaw, William Arthur, 1865–1943
Date:: 1971 [c1970]
Physical Description:: 2 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

78. An index of hereditary English, Scottish, and Irish titles of honour.

Creator:: Solly, Edward, 1819–1886
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: ix, 205 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

79. The historic peerage of England : exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the origin, descent, and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the Conquest ; being a new edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England" / by the late Sir Harris Nicolas. Revised, corrected, and continued to the present time, including all recent creations, extinctions, deaths, etc. by William Courthope.

Creator:: Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799–1848
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: lxxvi, 610 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

80. History of the great chanberlainship of England, by Captain G. J. Townsend.

Creator:: Townsend, George John, 1871–
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 117 p. front., fold. geneal. tables. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The majestic game of the Asiatic ostrich.

3. A letter to Isaac Tomkins, gent., author of the Thoughts upon the aristocracy. And a letter to John Richards ... / from Peter Jenkins.

4. Anecdotes of the aristocracy : and episodes in ancestral story / by J. Bernard Burke.

5. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

6. Thoughts upon the aristocracy of England. Part the first / by Isaac Tomkins, gent.

8. Sharpe's peerage of the British Empire : exhibiting its present state, and deducing the existing descents from the ancient nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

9. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1772, inclusive ... by the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

12. Thoughts on the ladies of the aristocracy/ by Lydia Tomkins ...

13. The present peerage of the United Kingdom : with the arms of the peers and baronets ; to which are prefixed, the established order of precedency, and an English translation of the mottos ; and subjoined is a list of the baronets of Great Britain, with reference to their arms.

14. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

15. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland / by John Burke ... and John Bernard Burke...

18. The dormant and extinct baronage of England, or, An historical and genealogical account of the lives, public employments, and most memorable actions of the English nobility who have flourished from the Norman conquest to ... 1806 ... / by T.C. Banks ...

19. Kearsley's Complete peerage, of England, Scotland, and Ireland : together with an extinct peerage of the three kingdoms, list of all their family names, titles of elder sons, &c. and translation of their mottos.

20. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

21. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

22. A synopsis of the peerage of England : exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the date of creation, descent and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the conquest ... / by Nicholas Harris Nicolas.

23. "We can't afford it!" : being thoughts upon the aristocracy of England. Part the second / by Isaac Tomkins, gent.

24. The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility ... / deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities by William Dugdale ...

25. A biographical peerage of the Empire of Great Britain : in which are memoirs and characters of the most celebrated persons of each family.

26. Collins's Peerage of England : genealogical, biographical, and historical / greatly augmented, and continued to the preent time, by Sir Egerton Brydges ...

27. The complete English peerage: or, A genealogical and historical account of the peers and peeresses of this realm, to the year 1775, inclusive ... By the Rev. Frederic Barlow ...

28. The patrician.

29. A letter to Isaac Tomkins and Peter Jenkins on primogeniture / by Timothy Winterbottom.

30. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

31. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families : with genealogical tables, and engravings of their coats of arms ... / by the Rev. William Betham ...

33. Nobilitas politica vel civilis : personas scilicet distinguendi, et ab origine inter gentes, ex principum gratia nobilitandi forma ...

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37. The English baronets : being a genealogical and historical account of their families ... : with an explanatory index of the terms in heraldry, referring to the arms ...

38. The romance of the peerage, or Curiosities of family history. By George Lillie Craik.

41. Debrett's illustrated peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

42. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

43. Burke's peerage & baronetage / Charles Mosley, editor-in-chief.

44. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke.

45. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire, by John Burke, esq.

46. Vicissitudes of families, and other essays. By Sir Bernard Burke.

47. Dod's peerage.

48. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant / by G. E. C.

49. Webster's royal red book or court and fashionable register for ...

50. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke.

51. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke ...

52. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain. By John Bernard Burke.

53. The new extinct peerage, 1884-1971; containing extinct, abeyant, dormant & suspended peerages with genealogies and arms [by] L. G. Pine.

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56. Family romance; or, Episodes in the domestic annals of the aristocracy. By J. Bernard Burke ...

57. Debrett's peerage and titles of courtesy.

58. Vicissitudes of families.

59. Titles and forms of address : a guide to correct use.

60. The pocket peerage of Great Britain and Ireland; with genealogical and historical notices of the families of the nobility; the archbishops and bishops; a list of titles of courtsey; a baronetage of the United Kingdom; The Privy Council, &c. by Henry Rumsey Forster.

61. Our old nobility. By Noblesse Oblige [pseud.]

62. Index of baronetage creations; a catalogue of the baronets of this Kingdom of England from the first erection of that dignity to this time. Compiled by C. J. Parry.

63. Le Neve's pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne. Ed. by George W. Marshall.

64. Burke's peerage and baronetage.

65. Vicissitudes of families, by Sir Bernard Burke.

66. A second series of vicissitudes of families / by Sir Bernard Burke.

67. The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire for 1881 / By Joseph Foster.

68. Debrett's House of commons. Illustrated with ... armorial engravings.

69. Titles and forms of address; a guide to their correct use.

70. Debrett's correct form.

71. Titled Elizabethans; a directory of Elizabethan state and church officers and knights, with peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1558-1603 [by] Arthur F. Kinney.

72. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

73. Tudor and Jacobean jewellery / Diana Scarisbrick.

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78. An index of hereditary English, Scottish, and Irish titles of honour.

80. History of the great chanberlainship of England, by Captain G. J. Townsend.