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74. LAWS of honour; or, a compendious account of the ancient derivations of all titles, dignities, offices, &c, showing. the prerogative of the crown, privileges of peerage and parliament, the true rank and precedency of all dignified persons, the most memorable debates and cases of parliament upon claims of honours, precedency, or otherwise, 8vo. 1726, 58.

75. LEGH'S (Gerard) Accedence of armorie, newly corrected and augmented,

LEGH's accidens, 4to.

1612.

1562, 1568, 1576, 1591, 1597.

76. LODGE'S (John) peerage of Ireland, revised, enlarged and continued to the present time, by Mervyn Archdall, A. M. 7 vols. 8vo. Dub. 1789, 31. 13s. 6d.

LODGE's peerage, 4 vols. 8vo.

1754, 11. 77. MACKENZIE's (Geo.) observations upon the laws and customs of nations, as to precedency, fol. Edin. 1680, 15 s. This is also printed in Guillim's heraldry. 78. MACKENZIE'S (Geo.) science of heraldry, treated as a part of the civil law and law of nations, &c. fol. Edin. 1680, 18 s. Usually bound with the preceding.

79. MADOX'S (Tho.) baronia anglica; an history of the land honours and baronies, and tenures in capite, verified by record, fol. 1736, 10s. 6d. 80. MANNER of judicial proceedings in the court of constable and marshall, touching the use of and bearing of coats of arms. In Hearne's Curious Discourses, vol. ii.

1625, 10 s.

81. MARKHAM's (Fra.) book of honour, fol. 82. MEMOIRS of ancient chivalry, transl. from the French of Mons. de St. Palaye, 8vo. 1784, 6s. 83. MILLAR'S (John) origin of the distinction of ranks; or an inquiry into the circumstances which gave rise to influence and authority in the different members of society. The fourth edition, corrected by John Craig, esq. 8vo. 1806, 9s. boards,

84. MILLES'S (Tho.) catalogue of honour; or, treasury of true nobility, peculiar and proper for the isle of Great Britain, fol. 1610, 1. 11 s. 6d. 85. MINUTES of evidence, respecting the claim to the Berkeley peerage, as taken before the committee of privileges in 1811, 8vo.

9. S. 86. MIRROUR of majestie, with emblems poeticallie unfolded, 4to. 1618. 87. MORGAN'S (Sylvanus) sphere of gentry, an historical and genealogical work of arms and blazon, fol. 88. MORGAN'S (Sylvanus) Armilogia, 4to. 89. NEW peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland, 3 vols.

8vo.

1661, 1, 1s.

1666.

1769, 128,

90. NISBET'S (Alex.) system of heraldry; illustrated with suitable examples of achievements of families in Scotland, 2 vols. fol. 1804, 5l. 5s. boards. NISBET'S (Alex.) system of heraldry, speculative and practical, 2 vols. fol.

1722.

NISBET'S (Alex.) ancient and modern use of armourie, 4to.

1718, 12s. 91. NOBLE'S (Mark) history of the college of arms, and the lives of all the kings, heralds and pursuivants, 4to. 1804, 1l. 11 s. 6d. 92. PAPERS relative to the two baronies of Stafford, claimed by Sir Wm. Jerningham, bart. on the death of his cousin lady Anastasia Stafford Howard, 27th April, 1807, (printed for private vuse.) 4to. Aug. 1807. 93. PARENTALIA Mariæ Clementina, M. Britanniæ, Reginæ, fol. Roma, 1735.

94. PEACHAM'S (Hen.) complete gentleman, 4to. 1661, 1634,

1621.

95. PEERAGE of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 3 vols. 8vo. 1790, 17. 18.

96. PEERAGE of England, as in 1711-12, with an account of all the families who have borne the dignity of peerage, 2 vols. 8vo.

1712, 63.

97. PEERAGE of Ireland, containing a genealogical and historical account of the peers, and lists of the baronets, extinct peers, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 1768, 63.

98. PHILIPPS'S (H.) ́grandeur of the law; or, an exact collection of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom, whose honours and estates have by some of their ancestors been acquired, or considerably augmented by the practice of the law, 2d edit. To which is added, an exact catalogue of all the lord chief justices of the king's bench and common pleas, and the lord chief barons of the exchequer, from their first institution, 12mo. 1685,

PHILIPPS's grandeur of the law,

5%.

1684, 3 s. 6d.

99. PHILIPOT'S (Tho.) origin and growth of heraldry, 8vo. 1672, 5s.

100. PHILPOT'S (John) perfect collection or catalogue of all knights and batchelours made by K. James I. 8vo.

1660.

101. PORNEY'S (M. A.) elements of heraldry, 8vo. 1795, 7 s. 102. PRESTWICH's (sir J.) Respublica, or, a display of the honours, ceremonies, and ensigns of the commonwealth under the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell, 4to. 1787, 10 s. 6d. 103. REGISTER of the most noble order of the garter. With notes by John Anstis, plates, 2 vols. fol. 1724.

This, from its cover in black velvet is usually called the black book.

Vol. I. contains, 1. Institutio Ordinis. 2. Ordinis stat. Act. et Const. 3. Appendices. Vol. II. 1. Introduction. 2. The reason and time of the institution of this order. 3. The collar of the order. 4. The robes of the order given to the ladies. 5. Memoirs of celebrated companions of the order. 6. A supplement to Mr. Ashmole's discourse of Garter's institution, oath, &c. 7. Appendices.

104. ROBERTSON's (Wm.) proceedings relating to the peerage of Scotland, from 1707 to 1788, 4to.

1790, 2 l. 8 s.

105. SANDFORD's (Fra. Lanc. Herald at Arms, temp. Car. II.) genealogical history of the kings and queens of England, and monarchs of Great Britain, &c. from the conquest, ann. 1066 to 1707. In seven parts or books, containing a discourse of their several lives, marriages and issues; with the time of their births, deaths, places of burial and monumental inscriptions. Also their effigies, seals, tombs, cenotaphs, devices, arms, quarterings, crests, and supporters: all curiously engraven in copper plates, continued to this time, with many new sculptures, additions and annotations; as likewise the descents of divers illustrious families, now flourishing, maternally descended from the said monarchs, or from collateral branches of the royal blood of England, by Samuel Stebbing, esq. Somerset Herald, fol. 1677, 2l. 12s. 6d. 1707, 51. 5s.

There is an abridgment of this truly curious and valuable book under the following title,

"

"The history of the royal family; or, a succinct account "of the marriages and issue of all the kings and queens of England, from the conquest: treating distinctly of their "children, with a view of their births, characters, lives, and "actions, titles, offices, deaths, and places of burial: showing as "well the descent of several foreign princes, and potentates now reigning, as of many noble and eminent families in England, "still flourishing, that are maternally descended from, or, "otherwise collaterally sprung from the blood royal of this kingdom, brought down to this time," 8vo.

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1713.

The plan of this work is, confessedly, borrowed from Sandford's geneal. hist. All chronological facts, except those merely necessary, are omitted; every branch is given, distinctly as it falls, and many branches are continued to the time of publication, where no account was before extant.

106. SEGAR'S (Sim.) titles of honour, the temporal nobility of the English nation (quatenus such) have had, or do now enjoy, viz. dukes, marquises, earls, and viscounts, from the conquest; and barons from their first investiture by charter, whether by tenure, writ of summons to parliament, or patent,

wherein their several gradations are set down, &c. 8vo. (a pamphlet.)

1712, 2s. 6d.

107. SEGAR'S (Sir Wm.) honor militarie and civill, fol. 1602,

12 s.

108. SELDEN's argument concerning the baronies of Grey and Ruthen. In his works, vol. iii.

109. SELDEN'S Duello, or single combat: from antiquity defined into England, with the forms and ceremonies thereof, 4to. 1610, 2 s. And in Hearne's curious discourses, and also in his works, vol. iii.

110. SELDEN'S (John) Jani Anglorum facies altera, Lat. 12mo. 1681, 1 s. In his works, vol. ii.

See Selden's tracts, Ch. XIV. infra.

111. SELDEN'S letter to Vincent on his discovery of errors. In his works, vol. iii.

112. SELDEN's titles of honour, 4to. 1614, 3s. 2d edit. fol. 1631, 5s. 3d edit. fol. 1672, 126.

See Wilkin's pref. to Selden's works, vol. iii.

113. SELDEN'S (John) privileges of the baronage of England when they sit in parliament, collected out of the parliament rolls and journals, &c. &c. 12mo. 1642, 2s. 6d. and in his works. See Hargrave's preface to Hale on parliaments, p. xxix. 114. SPELMAN's (Hen.) Aspilogia edit. Byssche, 1654. 115. SPELMAN'S (Hen.) Comites Marescalli Angliæ et de milite dissertatio. In his works, fol.

116. STUART'S (And.) genealogical history of the Stewarts, from the earliest period to the present times, 4to. 1798, 1l. 18. 117. STUART'S (And.) letters to ld. Mansfield on the Douglas cause, 4to.

1773, 5 s.

118. SUMMUS Angliæ seneschallus; or, a survey of the lord high steward of England's office, dignity, and jurisdiction; particularly the manner of arraigning a peer indicted of treason or felony, by Edw. S. of the Temple, 8vo. (a pamphlet) 1746, 2 s. 119. TITLES and honours conferred by K. Geo. I. and II. to 1728, 8vo.

1728, 5s.

120. TREATISE of the nobilitie of the realme according to the law, in a debate upon the barony of Abergavenny, 12mo. 1642,

2 s.

1799.

121. TURNER'S (T. H.) short account of ancient chivalry and description of armour, (a pamphlet) 8vo. 122. UPTON'S (W.) de Studio militari, lib. 4, edit. Byssche, fol. 1654.

123. VINCENT'S (August.) discoverie of errors in Brooke's catalogue of nobility, with a continuation to 1622, fol. 1622, 10s. 124. VON LOWHEN'S (Baron) analysis of nobility in its origin; 8vo.

1754.

125. WATERHOUSE'S (Edw.) discourse and defence of arms and armour, 8vo. 1660, 53. 126. WEST'S (ld. chan. of Irel.) inquiry into the manner of creating peers, 1719; 2d edit. 8vo. 1782, 5s. An answer appeared to this book, intitled, Animadversions on the inquiry, &c. with some hints about pyrating in learning, in a letter to Rich. West, esq. 8vo.

1724, 1s.

127. WYRLEY's (Wm.) true use of armourie, 4to. 1592. 128. YORKE'S (Jr.) union of honour, fol. 1640, 12s.

129. Zouch's jus feciale, or the law of arms, explaining the law of honour in peace and war between nations, 4to. 1650, 5s.

In the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS., will be found many pedigrees, descents, and arms of families, see vol. ii. of the Harleian Catalogue.

SECT. VII.

PROCEEDINGS in Cases of Impeachment and
High Treason, &c.

1689, 1s. 1641, 1 s.

1. ATKINS'S (Sir Rob.) defence of ld. Russel's innocency, and in his parliamentary tracts, 8vo. 1734 or 1741. 2. BACON (sir Fra.) cases of treason, &c. 4to. Reprinted with the several additions of his tracts, and with Holbourne's reading, and in Harleian Miscellany, vol. 5, post.

No. 20.

3. CARY'S (John) rights of the commons asserted, and the liberties of the people vindicated, 8vo. 1 s. 6d. 4. CHRISTIAN'S (Edw.) examination of precedents and principles; from which it appears, that an impeachment is determined by a dissolution of parliament; with an appendix, in which all the precedents are collected. Second edition, much enlarged, 8vo. 1791, 2s. 6d.

5. CHRISTIAN'S (Edw.) dissertation, shewing that the house of lords, in cases of judicature, are bound by precisely the same rules of evidence as are observed by all the other courts; with an appendix, containing some further observations on the effect of a dissolution of parliament upon an unfinished impeachment, 8vo. 1792, 2s.

6. CLIFFORD'S (Hen.) proceedings of the h. of lords, in the case of Benj. Flower, printer, for a supposed libel on the B. of Landaff; to which are added, the arguments in the court of

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